Matthew Rosseinsky has made influential discoveries in the field of materials chemistry, particularly in the synthetic chemistry of solid state electronic materials and novel microporous structures, which have applications ranging from catalysis to superconductivity. He works on the development of new methods of identifying functional materials, emphasising the integration of experiment with computational methods and collaborating with physicists, engineers and computer scientists.
He has published 420 peer-reviewed papers. In 2009, Matthew received the inaugural De Gennes Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — a lifetime achievement award in materials chemistry that is open internationally and is one of the RSC’s three premier awards. He was awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2011, and its Davy Medal in 2017. He became a Royal Society Research Professor in 2013. In 2017, he was Muetterties Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lee Memorial Lecturer at the University of Chicago. He gave the Davison Lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received the Basolo Award of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society in 2022. He received the Eni Energy Frontiers Award for the digital design and discovery of next-generation energy materials from the President of Italy in 2023.
He was a member of the Science Minister’s Advanced Materials Leadership Council from 2014-2016, and of the governing Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2015-2019. He was the chair of the Royal Society’s first policy briefing, on “The potential and limitations of using carbon dioxide” in 2017, and has contributed as working group member on three further policy briefings. He served on sectional committee 3, the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship panel, as chair of Nominations Committee and of the inaugural Theo Murphy Awards committee, and is currently a member of the Research System Community of Interest.
Subject groups
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Astronomy and Physics
Crystallography, Magnetism, Condensed matter incl softmatter, liquids, nano-materials
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Chemistry
Chemistry, inorganic, Chemistry, materials
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Engineering and Materials Science
Materials science (incl materials engineering)
Awards
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Hughes Medal
For his highly influential discoveries in the synthetic chemistry of solid state electronic materials and novel microporous structures.
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Davy Medal
For his advances in the design and discovery of functional materials, integrating the development of new experimental and computational techniques.
