Prof. Ian M. Reaney

Ian M. Reaney (IMR, PI) is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and the IOM3, and

Dyson Chair in Ceramics at UoS. He is European Site Director for the US National Science

Foundation Centre for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics. He has won numerous awards, such

as the Verulam Medal (2017) and most recently the Robert E Newnham Award (2021) from

the IEEE for structure-property relations in electroceramics. He is a named Investigator on

>35 EPSRC grants totalling >£45m with >£8m as PI, including the recent, multi- and

interdisciplinary grant (EP/L017563/1, £2.4m) on ‘Substitution and Sustainability in

Functional Materials and Devices’ (SUBST) and Transforming the Foundation Industries

Network+ (EP/V026402/1, £2.3m). He has >400 publications (>24k citations, h-index=81).

Ian will talk about Cold sintering of Advanced Ceramics and Glass