Matthew Jonathan Rosseinsky FRS is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the

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. He was awarded the

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in 2011 "for his influential discoveries in the synthetic chemistry of solid state electronic materials and novel microporous structures." He has been awarded the Harrison Memorial Prize (1991), Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize (2000) and Tilden Lectureship (2006) of the

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(RSC). In 2009, he was awarded the inaugural De Gennes Prize by the RSC, a lifetime achievement award in materials chemistry, open internationally. In 2013, he became a Royal Society Research Professor. In 2017, he was awarded the

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of the Royal Society for “his advances in the design and discovery of functional materials, integrating the development of new experimental and computational techniques.” He gave the Muetterties Lectures at

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and the Lee Lectures at the

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in 2017. He was a member of the Science Minister’s Advanced Materials Leadership Council from 2014-2016, and of the governing Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2015-2019.

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