Professor Serena Cussen FRSC
Winner: 2023 Interdisciplinary Prize
University of Sheffield
For interdisciplinary and original contributions to the development of new functional materials for energy storage and in-depth study of their local structure and dynamics.
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Professor Serena Cussen heads the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield. As a materials scientist, Serena is fascinated by the role synthesis plays in dictating the shape or chemistry of materials. This is because size and shape can have big implications for the resulting material properties. Often, by fine-tuning reactions, it is possible to get some control over its final form and shape.
Serena’s group is especially interested in developing new ways of making materials more efficiently and removing chemistry’s reliance on expensive or less abundant elements. Through the Faraday Institution, Serena is leading a UK-wide project on the development of next generation cathode materials for electric vehicles called FutureCat. The project is a consortium of over 50 researchers, partnering with industry, working on developing new syntheses routes to cathodes, discovering brand new chemistries, and applying advanced characterisation techniques and computational tools to understand and manipulate materials.
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