Prof. Robert Hoye is a Full Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John’s College. He also holds the STFC-RAEng Research Chair. He is leading a group of 20 working on developing new optoelectronic materials for clean energy conversion.
Prof. Hoye also serves as CTO of NanoPrint Innovations Ltd., which is commercialising a precision thin film manufacturing technique that could significantly improve the performance of photovoltaic devices. He was included in the 2023 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Europe.
Prof. Hoye holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2012-2014; advisor: Prof. Judith Driscoll) and a BE(Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He completed a postdoc at MIT (2015-2016), then two independent Research Fellowships at Magdalene College (2016-2019) and Downing College (2019-2020) in Cambridge. He became an independent Principal Investigator in 2018 through the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, which he initially held at the University of Cambridge, before moving to Imperial College as a Lecturer in Jan. 2020. He became an Associate Professor in the University of Oxford in Oct. 2022.
Prof. Hoye is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Scientist. He is also a Member of the RSC and IOP. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Advanced Optical Materials, APL Electronic Devices, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Thin Solid Films, and Nanotechnology.
He is a recipient of the EU-40 Materials Prize (Paul Siffert Award), and has received awards from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2018 Young Engineer of the Year), Royal Society of Chemistry (Beilby Medal and Prize), IOM3 (Rosenhain Medal and Prize), and many others.
A full publication list can be found on Google scholar here.
Group website: www.hoyegroup.site.ox.ac.uk
