Paul Anderson is Professor of Strategic Elements and Materials Sustainability and the Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials.
Paul has published close to 100 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews, book chapters and patents in the fields of porous framework materials, nanowires and nanoparticles, and hydrogen storage materials. He has received major research grants from the Royal Society, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the European Union and Advantage West Midlands.
He is an enthusiastic communicator on the themes of zeolite host–guest chemistry and the chemistry of solid state hydrogen storage, and has given invited talks across the UK and worldwide. Paul has been a regular advisor to the US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program and is a founding member of the interdisciplinary RCUK Doctoral Training Centre in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications based in Birmingham.