ABOUT
Professor Pam Thomas FinstP Cphys became the Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution in September 2020 after a decade in senior management roles at the University of Warwick that culminated in a 5-year period as a Pro Vice Chancellor (Vice President) for Research. Pam is currently also a council member of the Science Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) and a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN). Retaining her professorial status at the University of Warwick, she chairs the Social Inclusion Committee in her non-executive capacity as an Academic Vice President.
Her personal research is in the field of functional ferroelectric materials where she has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and two patents, one of which became the basis of a spin-out company, Pro KTP, to exploit the invention of a new low-conductivity variant of the nonlinear optical material potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP). She was educated at the University of Oxford, where she took a BA (Hons) in Physics and a DPhil on the subject of Optical Activity in Crystals in the Physical Crystallography Group of the Clarendon Laboratory.