President's International Advisory Council

Anthony Kevin Cheetham

Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Since 2007, Professor Tony Cheetham has been the Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge.

He was the first Director of the NSF-funded Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB (1992-2004), leading an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from eight departments. Professor Cheetham then became the founding Director of UCSB's International Center for Materials Research (2004-2007).

His research interests lie in the area of inorganic and hybrid materials for applications in catalysis, separations, light conversion, and renewable energy.

Professor Cheetham has published over 500 papers and holds several patents. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Science for the Developing World - TWAS (1998) and the Royal Society (1994).

Professor Cheetham is also a fellow of several other academies, and has received numerous international awards for his work in the field of materials chemistry. These awards, include the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society (2008), the Somiya Award of the IUMRS (with C.N.R. Rao, 2004), the Bonner Chemiepreis (2002) and a Chaire Blaise Pascal, Paris, (1997-9).

He also received honorary doctorates from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (2011) and the Universities of Versailles, France(2006)

Professor Cheetham graduated in Chemistry at the University of Oxford in 1969 and went on to do a D.Phil in neutron scattering under the supervision of Professor Sir Brian Fender. He was a member of the Chemistry faculty at Oxford from 1974-1991, becoming ad hominem Reader in Inorganic Materials in 1989. He then moved to California in 1991 to join the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara.

In addition to his academic activities, Professor Cheetham is currently a scientific advisor to Deutsche Bank Asset Management. Previously, he was a Science Advisor to the Board of Unilever (2000-2008). Professor Cheetham was a co-founder of NGEN, a Californian venture capital fund (2001).

He has also served on international scientific advisory boards for various organizations in the USA, Germany, France, Chile, India, Japan, Australia, the UAE, and now Saudi Arabia.