Dr Finlay D. Morrison

Biography

Finlay Morrison was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he received his B.Sc (Chemistry), M.Sc. (New Materials) followed by a PhD in solid state chemistry under the supervision of Profs Tony West and Derek Sinclair. Finlay then held a PDRA position (1999-2001) in the Engineering Materials Department, University of Sheffield working on lead-free, high permittivity materials based on ferroelectric barium titanate. In 2001 he moved to the Earth Sciences Department at Cambridge as a PDRA under the supervision of Prof Jim Scott FRS where he worked on thin film deposition and electrical characterisation of ferroelectric oxides as part of a Cambridge-MIT Institute funded project on voltage tuneable photonics.

Finlay was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2004-2012) which he initially held at the University of Cambridge before joining the School of Chemistry at St Andrews in 2006. He was promoted to Reader in 2012. Finlay’s general research interest lies in the solid state chemistry of functional oxides. Research in the Morrison group focuses on investigation of new materials (particularly dielectrics, ferroelectrics and multiferroics) for electronic applications.

Qualifications:

BSc Hons (Abdn) 1994

MSc (Abdn) 1995 (with distinction)

PhD (Abdn) 1999

Awards and Prizes:

Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2004-12)

Top paper award Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2003 and 2004)

Institute of Materials PMI trust Award (1998)

Professional Memberships:

Royal Society of Chemistry, 1997-present

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1998-2009

Materials Research Society, 2009-2013

UK Ferroelectrics Network, 1999-present

Review Editorial Board of Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics, 2013-

Royal Society of Chemistry Scotland Regional Steering Group, 2012-

Chemical Sciences Scotland Skills & Reputation Group, 2012-

Royal Society of Chemistry Solid State Chemistry Group committee, 2009-2012