HKU Science Distinguished Lecture Series: SCIENCE to ENABLE the CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Professor Catlow began his career at Oxford University, has directed the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He has been a Professor at University College London, the University of Keele, the University of Cardiff, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society – the UK Academy of Science - and a member of the German National Science Academy, the Leopoldina, of the Academia Europaea and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); he is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Materials and Chemical Societies of India. He served as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society from 2016 -2021 and was knighted in 2000 for his services to leadership in science and research.

His research programme is based on the development and application of computational techniques used in direct conjunction with experiment in probing the properties of complex materials. He has played a leading role in developing the field both in the UK and internationally. His programme comprises the study of energy materials, catalysis, nano-chemistry and surface chemistry. His work has also exploited the synergy between computation and experiment using synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering methods, especially in catalytic science. He has published over a 1200 research papers.