Pembroke Fellow's research recognised by the Royal Society

Professor Clare Grey FRS (2011) has been awarded the 2020 Hughes Medal by the Royal Society, for her "pioneering work on the development and application of new characterization methodology to develop fundamental insight into how batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells operate."

Professor Grey is the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Her research group, the Grey Group, studies the nature of solid state materials and their potential applications in supercapacitors, fuel cells, and batteries.

Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, Professor Grey was awarded the Kavli Medal and Lecture in 2011 and the Davy Medal in 2014.

The Hughes Medal is awarded annually, to an outstanding researcher in the field of energy. The award was named after David E Hughes FRS, who invented the first working radio communication system and the first microphone. The medal is accompanied by a gift of £2,000. Professor Grey's achievement will be celebrated at the Royal Society's Anniversary Day on 30 November 2020.

Previous winners of the Hughes Medal have included J J Thompson, Alexander Graham Bell, Neils Bohr, Steven Hawking and Andre Geim. It was awarded to Pembroke Fellow Professor David Buckingham in 1996 for his contributions to chemical physics.

The Grey Group: https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/grey/index

The Hughes Medal: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/hughes-medal/

Listen to Professor Clare Grey be interviewed by Professor Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio Four's The Life Scientific: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tdr0r