Science Board members

Professor Neville Greaves

Neville Greaves is professor of Physics at Aberystwyth University and Head of Department. Graduating from the University of St Andrews, he obtained his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory and joined Pilkington R&D before moving to Daresbury Laboratory in 1978 where he became Head of Materials Science until 1996. He established the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at Aberystwyth University in 2003 and the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials and Devices jointly with Bangor University in 2006.

His work includes the electronic structure of amorphous semiconductors, point defects in silica, and modelling the structure of glass for which he obtained the 1990 Glass Sellers of London Award for Science and Technology. He has played a key role in establishing X-ray techniques in synchrotron radiation which was recognised in 2002 by the award of Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Orléans. Current research relates to the atomic and nanostructure of amorphising solids and high temperature liquids, including polyamorphic transitions. He received a ScD from the University of Cambridge in 2008.

Neville chairs the international conference series Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Physics.