16 Facts About Henry Snaith

Henry James Snaith was born on 1978 and is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

Henry Snaith co-founded Oxford Photovoltaics in 2010 to commercialise perovskite based tandem solar cells.

Henry Snaith was educated at Gresham's School, an independent school in Norfolk, from 1989 to 1996.

Henry Snaith completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol, followed by postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 2005 for research on polymer solar cells supervised by Richard Friend.

Henry Snaith returned to the Cavendish Laboratory as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 2006.

Henry Snaith's research has been focused on new materials and device architectures for future generation low-cost photovoltaic.

Henry Snaith's achievements include the first demonstration of "gyroid" structured titania for dye solar cells, the first demonstration of mesoporous single crystals of anatase TiO2 and the recent discovery of high efficiency solid-state organometal trihalide perovskite-based thin film and mesosuperstructured solar cells.

Henry Snaith's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Henry Snaith has supervised numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in his lab including Priti Tiwana, Michael Brown, Pablo Docampo, Andrew Hey, Michael Lee, Tomas Leijtens, Varun Sivaram, Michael Saliba, Nakita Noel, Giles Eperon, and Severin Habisreutinger.

Henry Snaith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.

Professor Henry Snaith has pioneered the development of hybrid materials for energy and photovoltaics through an interdisciplinary combination of materials synthesis, device development, advanced optoelectronic characterisations and theoretical studies.

Henry Snaith has created new materials with advanced functionality and enhanced understanding of fundamental mechanisms.

Henry Snaith's work has started a new field of research, attracting both academic and industrial following, propelled by the prospect of delivering a higher efficiency photovoltaic technology at a much lower cost than existing silicon PV.

In 2012, Henry Snaith was Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize for "his important contributions to the field of excitonic solar cells".

In 2014, Henry Snaith was awarded the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award.

Henry Snaith was awarded the Patterson Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2012, and named as one of Nature's ten people who mattered in 2013.