Peter Battle

Professor Peter Battle teaches inorganic chemistry at St. Catherine's. He was an undergraduate student at the University of Bristol before coming to Oxford in 1976 to work as a graduate student with Tony Cheetham, himself an alumnus of the College. He then spent four years as a CEGB Research Fellow at St. Catherine's before taking up a lecturership at Leeds University in 1984. He returned to the College as a Tutorial Fellow in 1989. Peter was given the title of Professor of Chemistry in 2002; he had previously held visiting professorships in France at Caen (1988) and Bordeaux (1995). His research interests lie in the area of solid-state chemistry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the crystal structure and the electrical and magnetic properties of mixed-metal oxides and nitrides, for example La₁₈Li₈Fe₅O₃₉ and Fe_1.25Pt_0.75Mo₃N. More details of his research can be found here.