Robin Grimes

Sir Robin Grimes
Grimes in 2018
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham (BSc)
Case Western Reserve University
Keele University
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials physics
InstitutionsImperial College London
Ministry of Defence
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
ThesisQuantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. (1988)
Doctoral advisorRichard Catlow
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/r.grimes

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