Ivan Parkin is the Sir William Ramsay Professor of chemistry at UCL and Dean of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences faculty at UCL.  He has over 1,000 publications ( H= 123) and is the Clarivate worlds most cited authors list for 2023 and 24.  He is a Member of the Academia Europea and has been award 11 medals and prizes from international bodies.  He has graduated over 150 Ph.D. students, some 35 of which hold academic positions around the world.  His work focusses on surfaces and interfaces- particularly around chemical vapour deposition.  He was involved in the commercialisation of the world’s first self cleaning Glass Pilkington Activ.  He has also had widespread involvement in energy materials, radiative cooling platforms, transparent conducting oxides and gas sensors.  His students have established three spin out companies that employ over 200 people- including new battery material, gas sensors and CO2 capture and storage.

Talk title: Surfaces and interfaces for radiative cooling through to gas sensing