ABOUT
Dr Phoebe Allan is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UoB). Her research focuses on materials chemistry for sustainable energy applications, including development of sustainable battery chemistries, recycling of lithium-ion batteries and remediation of nuclear waste.
She completed a PhD with Professor Russell Morris FRS at the University of St Andrews in 2012, where she worked on the storage of medical gases using metal-organic frameworks. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the group of Professor Clare Grey FRS from 2012 – 2013, then held a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, and an Oppenheimer Fellowship from the School of Physical Sciences, University of Cambridge from 2013 – 2018. Here, her research focused on developing synchrotron-based studies to understand and develop new electrodes for lithium and sodium-ion batteries. From 2015 – 2017, she has also worked as a beamline support scientist at Diamond Light Source – the UK’s synchrotron source, developing sample environments for diffraction and imaging beamlines, and later working on the design of the new Dual Imaging and Diffraction (DIAD) beamline which became operational in 2020. She joined UoB as a Birmingham Fellow in 2018, becoming Associate Professor in 2021. She leads a group of 12 PhD and postdoctoral researchers and typically supervises 2 MSci undergraduate projects each year.