Frank Berry

Frank Berry was awarded the BSc and PhD degrees from the University of London. He held an SRC/ICI Research Fellowship in the University of Cambridge between 1975 and 1978 before joining The University of Birmingham as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader.

He was Visiting Professor in the University of Illinois in 1986 and became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Department in The Open University in 1991. He returned as Honorary Professor of Chemistry in The University of Birmingham in 2007. His research interests are in inorganic solid state and materials chemistry and he is the author of over 400 papers in the scientific literature.

Frank was awarded the DSc degree of the University of London in 1988 and was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry in 1984.

He has served on many international and national committees, has been an editor of a journal, has been Chairman of IBAME and is currently an Honorary Director of The Mössbauer Effect Data Centre.