Wendy Flavell
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| Born | Wendy Ruth Flavell (1961-09-01) 1 September 1961 (age 62)[3]
Bilston, England
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| Education | Wolverhampton Girls' High School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Awards | Royal Society University Research Fellow[when?] |
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| Fields | Photoemission Photovoltaics[1] |
| Institutions | University of Manchester UMIST Daresbury Laboratory Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Electron spectroscopy of metal oxides (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. A. Cox[2] |
| Website | www |
Wendy Ruth Flavell CChem CPhys FInstP (born 1 September 1961)[3]isVice Dean for Research and a Professor of Surface Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Her research investigates the electronic structure of complex metal oxides, chalcogenides, photoemission and photovoltaics.[1][4][5]
Flavell was born in Bilston to Maurice and June Flavell.[3] She was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School[3] and studied physics (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Oxford[3] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1986.[2] Her doctoral research investigated electron spectroscopy of metal oxides and supervised by P.A. Cox.[2]
Flavell joined Imperial College London as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[when?][6][7] In 1990 Flavell joined the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the Department of Chemistry.[6] In 1998 Flavell became the sixth woman in the United Kingdom to be appointed Professor of Physics.[6] She launched a scheme to promote women in science.[8] She was part of the strategy group that designed the 4GLSatDaresbury Laboratory in 2004.[9][10] She is a member of the University of Manchester Living Lab.[11]
Flavell is interested in using nanoparticles and Quantum dots for efficient fuel cells and new materials for photovoltaics.[12] She works on scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), X-ray absorption near edge structure (NEXAFS) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure. She has studied titanium dioxide and Tin(IV) Oxide.[13] She is interested in the surface reactivity of nanocrystals and dynamics of charge carriers in solar cells.[14][15] She attempts to understand how solar cells age at the surface, in efforts to design passivation strategies.[16] Flavell demonstrated that cadmium telluride quantum dots can have near unity quantum yields.[17] In 2014 she served as deputy chair of the physics panel of the Research Excellence Framework (REF).[6] She served on the Council of the Institute of Physics in 2017[8] and on the Newton International Fellowship committee for the Royal Society.[18] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).[19]
In 2011 Flavell's research group demonstrated their work on quantum dots at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition.[20][21][22] She has delivered a Pint of Science talk[23] and discussed the photononIn Our Time in 2015.[24]
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