Simon Humphrey

Simon Humphrey attended the University of East Anglia, Norwich, from 1998 to 2002 and the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2000 to 2001, earning a Master of Chemistry degree (MChem, First Class). He then attended the University of Cambridge as a graduate student at St. John's College from 2002 to 2005, earning a Ph.D. under the supervision of Paul T. Wood in the field of magnetic and porous coordination polymer synthesis. From 2005 to 2007, Humphrey was a U.S. Department of Energy Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he worked under the co-supervision of T. Don Tilley and Gabor A. Somorjai in the field of nanoparticle catalysis. In 2006, he was awarded a fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, before joining The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in 2009.