Dr. Peter Skabara

Biography

Peter Skabara graduated from Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London, in 1991 with a Class Honours degree in Chemistry. He completed his PhD studies in 1994 under the supervision of Professor Martin Bryce at the University of Durham and then undertook a Max-Planck Fellowship with Professor Klaus Müllen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz from 1994 to 1995. His academic career began at Sheffield Hallam University in 1995, followed by a Senior Lectureship at the University of Manchester from 2000 to 2005. He then joined the University of Strathclyde, where he served as the James Young Chair of Chemistry and Head of Department from 2010 to 2013. In 2018, he moved to the University of Glasgow as the Ramsay Chair of Chemistry. His research interests primarily focus on organic semiconductors, involving the synthesis and properties of electronic and photonic devices, with particular attention to the design and control of molecular architecture. Skabara has received significant recognition for his work, including the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, and he is a current recipient of the Leverhulme/Royal Society Africa Award. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry since 2011 and chaired the launch of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2013. Additionally, he chaired the ICSM biennial meeting, a premier event in the organic hybrid semiconductor device research field, which was held in Glasgow in 2020.

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