Paul Attfield

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Paul Attfield

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Paul Attfield at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born
John Paul Attfield

(1962-07-27) 27 July 1962 (age 61)
Education Durham Johnston School [1]
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds  (1987)
Doctoral advisor Anthony Cheetham [3]
Peter Battle [3]
Website www.csec.ed.ac.uk/members/prof-j-paul-attfield

John Paul Attfield (born 1962) [1] FRS FRSE FRSC [4] is a Professor of Materials science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC). [5] [6] [7]

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Education

Attfield was educated at Durham Johnston School [1] in Durham, England and the University of Oxford where he was a student at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham and Peter Battle. [3]

Career and research

Attfield was appointed a lecturer,[ when? ] and subsequently a Reader [ when? ] at the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2003. [2] Attfield's research focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic materials such as transition metal oxides. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). [8] Attfield has made significant contributions to the study of the Verwey transition in magnetite, solving its charge ordering properties.

Paul Attfield has made distinctive contributions to the experimental understanding of structure in the solid-state, in particular pioneering the use of resonant X-ray scattering to study cation and valence ordering effects and characterising charge-order in strongly correlated systems such as magnetite. [4] He introduced the cation-size variance as a concept to rationalise and predict disorder effects, with a substantial impact on the study and preparation of technologically important materials. [4] He has synthesised and characterised new materials with novel electronic properties, including high-Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and negative thermal expansion, including new developments in chemical synthesis. [4]

Awards and honours

Attfield was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 1991; the Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC in 1998; and the Peter Day Award in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014 for “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge”. [4] In 2016, Attield was awarded a Daiwa Adrian Prize, recognizing his work as part of a British-Japanese scientific collaboration. [9]

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  6. Paul Attfield publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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  8. "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Paul Attfield by the EPSRC". gow.epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017.
  9. "Japan science link-ups receive £10,000 prizes".

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