Organizing Committee Member
Peter Foot
Professor
School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
United Kingdom
Biography
He studied chemistry at the Universities of Southampton and Oxford. Later, working at Brighton and Sussex Universities, he became interested in inorganic materials and organic polymers. Present interests are mainly in functional polymers and nanocomposites for energy conversion, organic optics & electronics, and drug delivery. He led the Materials Research Group at Kingston University (1995-2008) and was Founding Director of the Materials Research Centre. He retired as full-time Professor of Materials Science in 2014, and now he is Emeritus Professor. He currently supervise 3 PhD. students at Kingston, having previously directed 56 successfully-completed research students and 9 postdoc researchers. His research has been funded by EPSRC, the Royal Society, industry and government agencies, including a recent KTP (2013-15) worth £130k from Innovate UK.
Research Area
Polymer Chemistry, Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Organic electronics and optoelectronics, Nanomaterials, Polymer characterization and surface modification, Battery materials and systems