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Henry Snaith in 2015
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Henry James Snaith 1977/1978 (age 38–39) |
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Thesis | Polymer based photovoltaic diodes (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Friend |
Other academic advisors | Michael Grätzel |
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Henry James Snaith FRS is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.
Snaith was educated at Gresham's School, in Norfolk from 1989 to 1996. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol, followed by postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 2005 for research on polymer solar cells supervised by Richard Friend.
Following his PhD, Snaith did two years of postdoctoral research with Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 2006. Following this, Snaith was appointed a Research Councils UK research fellow while at the University of Oxford, then promoted to Reader and Professor.
According to a biography from the Materials Research Society (MRS):
Snaith's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Snaith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: