Paul Francis McMillan#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 4969 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Paul Francis McMillan passed away February 2nd, 2022.
Positions Held
- 2008 - present Sir William Ramsay Professor of Chemistry, University College London
- 2000 - 2008 Professor of Solid State Chemistry, University College London and Royal Institution of Great Britain
- 2000 - present Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
- 1997 - 2000 Director Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University
- 1997 - 2000 Presidential Professor of the Sciences, Arizona State University
- 1993 - 2000 Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
- 1988 - 1993 Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
- 1983 - 1988 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Arizona State University
- 2008 - 2009 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Physics, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
- 2004 - 2006 Visiting Professor, Earth Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering
- Mineral physics/geochemistry
- High-pressure biology/biophysics
- Solid state inorganic/materials chemistry
- Physical techniques applied to biomedical science
- Optical spectroscopy
- Amorphous solids and liquids
- High pressure-high temperature research
- Energy science
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Provost's Teaching Award, UCL, 160x (Chemistry for Biology Students) lecturer
- 2011 Peter Day award, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2010 Eyring Lecturer, Arizona State University
- 2007 Chair, MC-8 "Functional Materials by Chemical Design": Royal Society of Chemistry, London
- 2007 - 2012 EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, UK
- 2001 - 2006 Research Merit Award, Wolfson Foundation and Royal Society, UK
- 2004 Humphry Davy Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2004 Rutherford Lecture, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK
- 2003 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Solid State Chemistry Medal and Award
- 2003 Director, Erice Crystallography School "High Pressure Crystallography"
- 2002 Chair, Gordon Research Conference on "Advances in High Pressure Research"
- 2001 Friday Evening Discourse, Royal Institution, UK
- 1996 Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
- 1997 Foreign Associate, Institut Universitaire de France
