Robert House is Associate Professor of Materials and Non-Tutorial Fellow of Keble College. In 2021, he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship which he still holds. He previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre college and Faraday Institution Research Fellow position in the CATMAT project working on high energy density Li-rich cathodes. He completed a Materials DPhil in the department in 2020 under the supervision of Prof Sir Peter Bruce on oxygen redox chemistry and, prior to this, obtained a first degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge.
Robert’s research focuses on employing novel synthesis methods to make new materials for next-generation Li-ion and beyond Li batteries, and understanding the fundamental charge storage processes, structural transitions and ion transport mechanisms which underpin their operation.
He runs the House Group, we are working to develop new energy materials that will help us achieve Net Zero. Finding efficient, low cost, and sustainable ways to store energy is critical to enabling the transition away from fossil fuels and to ensuring a reliable supply of renewable electricity from our grid. This is a major scientific challenge requiring the discovery of new materials and a deeper fundamental understanding of energy storage mechanisms.
He runs The House Group – Sustainable Energy Storage Materials, which is working to develop new energy materials that will help achieve net-zero. Finding efficient, low cost, and sustainable ways to store energy is critical to enabling the transition away from fossil fuels and to ensuring a reliable supply of renewable electricity from our grid. This is a major scientific challenge requiring the discovery of new materials and a deeper fundamental understanding of energy storage mechanisms.