Elizabeth (Libby) Gibson

Biography

Libby is a Professor of Energy Materials at Newcastle University.

She joined Newcastle as a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in 2014 and was promoted to Reader in Energy Materials in 2018 and Professor in 2022. Prior to her current role, she held a University of Nottingham Anne McLaren Research Fellowship and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship. She obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of York, supervised by Robin Perutz FRS and Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klair.

Research in her group focuses on developing materials and devices for sustainable power, fuel and feedstocks. This involves materials development, device assembly and characterization of the underpinning photophysics and electrochemistry. Her current roles include being the co-director of the EPSRC and NERC Centre, “Great British Chemicals”, academic lead for the Northern Net Zero Accelerator PB-IAA, the EPSRC Northeast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy & Microscopy Facility, Institution Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training “Renewable Energy at Northeast Universities” (ReNU and ReNU+). Libby is the Co-Director of Post-graduate Research in the School of Natural and Environmental Science at Newcastle University.

RSC journal affiliations

• Advisory Board Member, Chemical Science

• Advisory Board Member, Sustainable Energy & Fuels

• Advisory Board Member, EES Solar