EXPERIENCE
Grant graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2017 with an MSci in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He then went onto study for a PhD in Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews where he wrote his thesis on Synthesis and Characterisation of the Geometric Ferroelectric LaTaO4.
Grant led an international collaborative research project which focussed on the design and synthesis of new clean, sustainable and efficient ferroelectric materials for device applications. High temperature synthetic methods were employed to produce mechanically robust ceramics with tailored chemical compositions which promoted functional electronic properties. Thorough characterisation allowed for a complicated composition-structure-property interrelationship to be explored and led to previously unidentified structural features being elucidated.
He has also had the following papers published with one other pending publication:
G. W. Howieson, S. Wu, A. S. Gibbs, W. Zhou, J. F. Scott, and F. D. Morrison. Incommensurate – Commensurate Transition in the Geometric Ferroelectric LaTaO4, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2004667 (2020).
G. W. Howieson, K. K. Mishra, A. S. Gibbs, R. S. Katiyar, J. F. Scott, F. D. Morrison, and M. Carpenter. Structural Phase Transitions in the Geometric Ferroelectric LaTaO4, Phys. Rev. B 103, 1 (2021).
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
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• Complex structural modelling and numerical data processing
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• Design and operation of novel material synthesis and analysis techniques
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• Risk assessment and safety management procedures
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• Publication of research in peer reviewed scientific journals
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• Collaborative research
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• Project Management
