Paul Attfield

Paul Attfield

Paul Attfield in 2015
Born John Paul Attfield
(1962-07-27) 27 July 1962
Birmingham[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater University of Oxford
Thesis The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (1987)
Doctoral advisor Anthony Cheetham[2]
Doctoral students
  • Sandra Carlsson[3]
  • Wei-tin Chen[4]
  • George Penny[5]
Notable awards
Website
www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-j-paul-attfield

(John) Paul Attfield (born 1962) FRS[7] is a Professor of Materials Science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).[8][9]

Education

Attfield was educated at the University of Oxford where he was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a DPhil in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham.[2]

Career

Following his DPhil, Attfield was a Lecturer, and later a Reader at the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2003.[10]

Research

Attfield's research focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic materials such as transition metal oxides.[8][9][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] This research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[22] He has also made significant contributions to the study of the Verwey transition in magnetite, solving its charge ordering properties.

Awards and honours

Attfield won the Meldola Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991; the Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC in 1998; and the Peter Day Award in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[7] His nomination reads:

“ Paul Attfield has made distinctive contributions to the experimental understanding of structure in the solid-state, in particular pioneering the use of resonant X-ray scattering to study cation and valence ordering effects and characterizing charge-order in strongly correlated systems such as magnetite. He introduced the cation-size variance as a concept to rationalize and predict disorder effects, with a substantial impact on the study and preparation of technologically important materials. He has synthesized and characterized new materials with novel electronic properties, including high-Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and negative thermal expansion, including new developments in high pressure synthesis.[6] ”

References

  1. 1 2 ATTFIELD, Prof. (John) Paul. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Attfield, John Paul (1987). The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863504840.
  3. ↑ Carlsson, Sandra J. E. (2009). Experimental studies of spin, charge and orbital order at extreme conditions (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
  4. ↑ Chen, Wei-tin (2009). Synthesis, structural and property studies of bismuth containing perovskites (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
  5. ↑ Penny, George B. S. (2010). High-pressure synthesis of electronic materials (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
  6. 1 2 "Professor Paul Attfield FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-17.
  7. 1 2 "J Paul Attfield". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
  8. 1 2 List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  9. 1 2 Paul Attfield's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Peter Day Award 2013 Winner Professor J. Paul Attfield Royal Society of Chemistry
  11. ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J.P. (1996). "Cation disorder and size effects in magnetoresistive manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B. 54 (22): R15622. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R15622.
  12. ↑ McLaughlin, A.; Zhou, W.; Attfield, J. P.; Fitch, A.; Tallon, J. (1999). "Structure and microstructure of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr₂GdCu₂O₈". Physical Review B. 60 (10): 7512. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7512.
  13. ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. P.; Radaelli, P. G. (2001). "Long Range Charge Ordering in Magnetite Below the Verwey Transition". Physical Review Letters. 87 (26). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.266401.
  14. ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J. (1998). "Cation disorder and the metal-insulator transition temperature in manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B. 58 (5): 2426. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.58.2426.
  15. ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. Paul; Radaelli, P. G. (2002). "Charge ordered structure of magnetite Fe₃O₄ below the Verwey transition". Physical Review B. 66 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.214422.
  16. ↑ Rodríguez-Martínez, L.; Attfield, J. Paul (2000). "Disorder-induced orbital ordering in L0.7M0.3MMnO3 perovskites". Physical Review B. 63 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.024424.
  17. ↑ Attfield, J. P. (1998). "A Simple Approach to Lattice Effects in Conducting Perovskite-Type Oxides". Chemistry of Materials. 10 (11): 3239. doi:10.1021/cm980221s.
  18. ↑ Attfield, J. P. (2011). "Condensed-matter physics: A fresh twist on shrinking materials". Nature. 480 (7378): 465–6. doi:10.1038/480465a. PMID 22193098.
  19. ↑ Senn, Mark S.; Wright, Jon P.; Attfield, J. Paul (2011). "Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite". Nature. 481 (7380): 173–176. doi:10.1038/nature10704. ISSN 0028-0836.
  20. ↑ Mclaughlin, A. C.; Sher, F.; Attfield, J. P. (2005). "Retraction: Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity–antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides". Nature. 437 (7061): 1057–1057. doi:10.1038/nature04182. ISSN 0028-0836.
  21. ↑ Chen, W. T.; Mizumaki, M; Seki, H; Senn, M. S.; Saito, T; Kan, D; Attfield, J. P.; Shimakawa, Y (2014). "A half-metallic A- and B-site-ordered quadruple perovskite oxide CaCu3Fe2Re2O12 with large magnetization and a high transition temperature". Nature Communications. 5: 3909. doi:10.1038/ncomms4909. PMID 24849185.
  22. ↑ Grants awarded to Paul Attfield by the EPSRC
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