| Honorific Prefix: | Dame |
| Clare Grey | |
| Birth Name: | Clare Philomena Grey |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1965 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Chemistry Materials |
| Workplaces: | University of Cambridge Stony Brook University Radboud University Nijmegen DuPont |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Thesis Title: | A 119Sn and 89Y MAS NMR study of rare-Earth pyrochlores |
| Thesis Url: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276535 |
| Thesis Year: | 1991 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Anthony Cheetham |
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Dame Clare Philomena Grey is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grey uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study and optimize batteries.
Grey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry in 1991, both from the University of Oxford.[1] Her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Sir Anthony Cheetham, used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magic angle spinning (MAS) to study rare-earth pyrochlores.[2]
Following Grey's graduate studies, she held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Nijmegen. From 1992 to 1993, she worked as a visiting researcher at DuPont. In 1994, Grey was appointed a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and became full professor in 2001. In 2009, she became the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
From 2009 to 2010 she was the Director of the Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center, and Associate Director from 2011 to 2014. She is current the director of the EPSRC Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Systems.
Grey pioneered the application of nuclear magnetic resonance to study and improve the performance of batteries, particularly lithium ion batteries.[3] She also made major contributions to the development of lithium-air batteries.[4]
Grey is co-founder of Nyobolt, a company which specializes in niobium-based batteries.[5]
Grey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[6] and awarded the Günther Laukien Prize in 2013 followed by the Davy Medal in 2014 for "further pioneering applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance to materials of relevance to energy and the environment."
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to science.[7]
Other awards, honours and career highlights include: