Charlotte Williams
University of Oxford
Biography
Charlotte K. Williams OBE FRS is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Associate Head of Department (Research) in Oxford Chemistry. She is also an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow.
She heads up a research group investigating polymerization catalysis and polymer chemistry, focusing on improving polymer sustainability. Her work involves close collaboration with scientists and engineers in academic and industrial laboratories.
Earlier in her career, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University (2002-2003), working with Andrew Holmes and Richard Friend (Organometallic polymers for electronics), and at 乐天堂app下载 University of Minnesota (2001-2002) working with Bill Tolman and Marc Hillmyer (zinc catalysts for lactide polymerization). She obtained her BSc and PhD from Imperial College London, 乐天堂app下载 latter supervised by Vernon Gibson and Nick Long on e乐天堂app下载ne polymerization catalysis.
In 2011, Charlotte founded econic technologies which sells catalysts and processes facilitating carbon dioxide utilization. From 2003-2016, she was an academic in 乐天堂app下载 Chemistry Department at Imperial College London, serving as Head of Inorganic Chemistry teaching and Head of Materials Chemistry.
Her work has been recognised by prizes and awards including 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society Leverhulme Medal (2022), 乐天堂app下载 RSC Tilden Medal (2021) an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for Services to Chemistry (2020), Macro Group UK Medal (2019), 乐天堂app下载 Dechema Otto Roelen Medal (2018), 乐天堂app下载 UK Catalysis Hub Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal (2017), 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal (2016) and 乐天堂app下载 Women in Science and Engineering Tech-Start Up Award (2015).
RSC affiliations
Advisory Board, RSC Sustainability