Professor Pat Unwin

Professor Pat Unwin was born and raised in Yorkshire, England.  He earned his BSc (Liverpool), DPhil (Oxford) and DSc (Warwick).  He was Junior Research Fellow in Physical Sciences at Balliol College, Oxford and SERC/NATO Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, before being appointed to an academic position at Warwick in 1991, where he is Professor of Electrochemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry.

Pat and his group are well known for pioneering nanoscale electrochemical imaging techniques that allow myriad structure-activity phenomena to be elucidated.  A particular focus has been on multifunctional imaging and the combination of electrochemical methods with complementary microscopy techniques, with applications from energy materials to the life sciences.

Pat is the author of more than 350 papers and book chapters, and has won a number of awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Society of Electrochemistry; he is a Fellow of both Societies.  Pat is presently a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder, and a member of several editorial boards and committees, including Langmuir and Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry.  Outside electrochemistry, he enjoys running, songwriting and performing in several local bands.