Dr Isaac Abrahams

Dr Abrahams is Head of the Department of Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London. His main area of research can broadly be defined as solid state and structural chemistry with over 270 papers published in this area. Much of his work has been in the field of solid state ionics focusing on ionically conducting solids for application as electrolytes or electrodes in batteries, fuel cells and gas sensors. More recently his work has extended to dielectric materials including ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics with the development of new materials for energy storage. In addition to the synthesis of new materials, he has developed expertise in defect structure determination using neutron and X-ray powder diffraction techniques, solid state NMR, EXAFS and a.c. impedance spectroscopy. Although much of his work has been on crystalline solids, Dr Abrahams has made use of his background in structural inorganic chemistry in the study of amorphous solids for applications such as biomedical materials.

Esteem

Royal Society of Chemistry JWT Jones Fellowship (1997), EU funded visiting professorship at the Warsaw University of Technology (Jan-April 2011), visiting professor to the Key State Laboratory for Powder Metallurgy at Central South University, China November 2017 and November 2019.

Editorships

International Editorial Board for the Journal of the Materials Society of Pakistan 2009 to 2012. Guest Editor, Solid State Ionics (Special Issue, SSI-18), July 2011 July 2012. Editorial Board Materials Research Bulletin 2016 to date, Crystallographic Editor Journal of Chemical Research 2015 to 2019.

Learned Society Positions

April 1993-December 1997, Newsletter Editor and committee member of the Applied Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry; February 1999- December 2005, Newsletter Editor and committee member of the Solid State Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, December 2014 to Jan 2018 Chair of the UK Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Committee member Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry December 2017 to Dec 2018.