Clare Grey DBE

Clare P. Grey, DBE, FRS is a Royal Society Research Professor, Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Pembroke College. After receiving a BA and D. Phil. from Oxford University, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Nijmegen and at DuPont CR&D. She joined the faculty at Stony Brook University (SBU) as an Assistant (1994), Associate (1997) and then Full Professor (2001-2015). She moved to Cambridge in 2009, maintaining an adjunct position at SBU, and became a Fellow of Pembroke College in 2011.

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for services to science. Other honours and awards include the RSC John B. Goodenough Award (2019), the Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance (2020), the RS Hughes Medal (2020), the Körber European Science Prize (2021) and the ISMAR Prize (2025). She is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of both the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. She was elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Her current research interests include the use of NMR and diffraction-based methods to determine structure-function relationships in materials for energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors) and conversion (fuel cells).