Prof Charlotte Williams delivers Cheetham Lecture 2026

SCHEMA Director Prof Charlotte Williams delivered the 2026 Cheetham Lecture at the Materials Research Outreach Symposium (MROP) held at UC Santa Barbara earlier this year.

The Cheetham lecture at UCSB

Global polymer manufacturing

The annual Cheetham Lecturer award was established in 2008 in honour of Anthony K Cheetham, FRS, the founding director of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at UCSB: a National Science Foundation (NSF) Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC). It honours a scientist who not only has made outstanding contributions to materials research, but also has had a strong impact on industrial applications. The title of Prof Williams' lecture was "Insights into Selective Polymerization and Depolymerization Catalysis to Prepare Block Oxygenated Polymersat".

Cheetham Lecture attendees

Profs Charlotte Williams, Angela Pitenis, and Christopher Bates

Thanking the research group