Science Board members - Prof Neville Greaves
Neville Greaves is Professor of Physics at Aberystwyth University. 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.
Neville 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 high temperature supercooled liquids, including the study of liquid-liquid transitions. He received a ScD from the University of Cambridge in 2008 and has since been elected a Distinguished Research Fellow in Materials Science and Metallurgy. In 2009 he became an Honorary Professor of Chemistry at UCL.
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 founded the Institute of Physics in Wales in 1998 and became a member of the IoP Council in 2004.
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by Victoria Wright
