Professor Sir Peter Bruce
Peter is a Trustee of the Foundation and is also the Wolfson Chair, Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford.
Position/Organisation
Trustee
Professor Sir Peter Bruce is the Wolfson Chair, Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford. He is founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution, the UK Centre for Research on Electrochemical Energy Storage. He was also Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society from 2018 to 2023. His research interests embrace the science of energy conversion and storage, especially the materials chemistry and electrochemistry of lithium and sodium batteries.
Professor Sir Peter Bruce was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List in recognition of his visionary work and leadership in battery technology and sustainable energy. He has received a number of national and international awards for his research and was awarded in 2022 the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Longstaff prize for pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy. He was elected to the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Professor Sir Peter Bruce is also a member of the Foundation’s Grant and Direct Charitable Activities Committee.