Professor Andrew Goodwin FRS

Andrew Goodwin is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Royal Society. He was born in Australia and studied at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge.

He researches inorganic and solid-state chemistry and his particular research interest is in understanding and exploiting structural flexibility and disorder in functional materials. He leads a research group which covers four key areas: fundamentals of disorder; advanced characterisation; disorder by design; disorder/property relationships.

Professor Goodwin leads a team of about ten to fifteen researchers in Oxford's Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. The particular interest of his group is in understanding and exploiting structural flexibility and disorder in functional materials.

Awards and Distinctions

2023 Fellowship of the Royal Society
2021 Peter Day Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
2018 Inaugural Chemistry Laureate, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK
2017 Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
2013 Marlow Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
2010 Harrison–Meldola Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry