Prof. Peter Edwards
- Statutory Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford
- Co-Director, KACST-Oxford Centre of Excellence in Petrochemicals
Peter P. Edwards FRS ML MAE holds the Statutory Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford and is the Co-Director of the KACST-Oxford Centre of Excellence in Petrochemicals, also at Oxford. He has previously held positions at Birmingham (Professor of Chemistry and of Materials), Cambridge (Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Studies in Chemistry, Jesus College) and Cornell (British Fulbright Scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow). He was co-Founder of the first-ever UK Interdisciplinary Research Centre, that in Superconductivity at Cambridge and the UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC). He has been Chair of the European Research Council Advanced Investigators Award Panel on Chemical Synthesis and Advanced Materials.
Edwards is Fellow of the Royal Society; Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, German Academy of Sciences, International Honorary Member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences; International Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Member of the Academia Europaea.
His current major interests include: targeted reconstruction of plastic waste to hydrogen and starting monomers; converting carbon dioxide to carbon-neutral fuels and green hydrogen from fossil hydrocarbon fuels.