Professor Sir Peter Bruce

Professor Sir Peter Bruce was appointed as a Trustee of Lloyd’s Register Foundation and a member of the Foundation’s Grants and Direct Charitable Activities Committee with effect from 1 April 2025.  He was appointed Chair of the Foundation’s Grants and Direct Charitable Activities Committee with effect from 16 January 2026.

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 and as such a Trustee of member o Council, the governing board of the Royal Society.  He was Head of the Chemistry Department at the University of St Andrews from 1997 to 2003 and is currently Head of the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford.  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, including the Carl Warner Award from the US Electrochemical Society, the Royal Society Hughes Medal and in 2022 the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Longstaff prize for pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy. In 2024, he was elected to the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences, and also the Chinese Academy of Sciences.