| Biography | Saiful Islam FRSC FIMMM (born 14 August 1963) is a British chemist and professor of Materials science at the University of Oxford. Previously he was professor of materials chemistry at the University of Bath. Saiful is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM).In 2020, he received the American Chemical Society Award for Energy Chemistry for his major contributions to the fundamental atomistic understanding of new materials for lithium batteries and perovskite solar cells.
In 2019, he declined a New Year Honours Award of an OBE, and is on the long list of people who have declined a British honour. He is an atheist and Patron of Humanists UK. |