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Robert Hoye is a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, affiliated with St. John's College. He earned his degree from the University of Auckland and pursued his PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge-Rutherford Memorial Scholar, working under Judith Driscoll. Hoye’s postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Tonio Buonassisi focused on developing defect-tolerant semiconductors and perovskite-silicon tandem photovoltaics. After returning to the University of Cambridge in 2016 as an independent Research Fellow, he made significant contributions in ultrafast spectroscopy and optoelectronic device development involving novel metal-halide semiconductors. In 2018, he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship and became a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, where he published notable research in Nature Materials. Hoye has supervised several PhD students and held a Lectureship at Imperial College London before moving to Oxford in October 2022. He has received prestigious awards including the Imperial President’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher and the Rosenhain Medal Prize, and he was granted an ERC Starting Grant in 2021.
University of Oxford • Oxford, United Kingdom
Leading research in inorganic chemistry and optoelectronic device development.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Research in halide compounds and perovskite-inspired materials.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.