Charlotte Williams
University of Oxford
Biography
Charlotte K. Williams OBE FRS is a professor of Inorganic 浪花直播 and Associate Head of Department (Research) in Oxford 浪花直播. 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 the 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, the latter supervised by Vernon Gibson and Nick Long on ethene 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 the 浪花直播 Department at Imperial College London, serving as Head of Inorganic 浪花直播 teaching and Head of Materials 浪花直播.
Her work has been recognised by prizes and awards including the Royal Society Leverhulme Medal (2022), the RSC Tilden Medal (2021) an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for Services to 浪花直播 (2020), Macro Group UK Medal (2019), The Dechema Otto Roelen Medal (2018), The UK Catalysis Hub Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal (2017), the 浪花直播 Corday Morgan Medal (2016) and the Women in Science and Engineering Tech-Start Up Award (2015).
RSC affiliations
Advisory Board, RSC Sustainability