Easterfield Award winner 2009

Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand

About the winner

Richard Tilley is a senior lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and has been since 2003. He is also a Principle Investigator and manager of the electron microscopes of The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnolgy.

He received his MChem from the University of Oxford and PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge. After which he was awarded a Toshiba Post-doctoral Fellowship and spent two years working in the nanotechnology group of the Toshiba basic research and development centre in Japan.

The driving force for his research ranges from understanding the fundamental properties of nanocrystals to their future applications. Throughout his career he has have worked on the liquid phase synthesis of nanocrystals with the aim of controlling properties, shape and structure. Current interests include catalytic metals, magnetic nanoparticles and quantum dots made from silicon and their biomedical applications.