Robin Grimes
Sir Robin Grimes | |
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Grimes in 2018 | |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham (BSc) Case Western Reserve University Keele University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials physics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Ministry of Defence Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Thesis | Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Catlow |
| Website | imperial |
Professor Sir Robin William Grimes is a British nuclear scientist who is chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nuclear science and technology and professor of materials physics at Imperial College London. From February 2013 to August 2018 he served as chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Since November 2021 he has been Foreign Secretary of The Royal Society