Professor Geoffrey Ozin studied at King’s College London and Oriel College Oxford University, before completing an ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship at Southampton University. Currently he is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto, and a Founding Fellow of the Nanoscience Team at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Internationally he is an Honorary Professor at The Royal Institution Great Britain and University College London, External Advisor for the London Centre for Nanotechnology, Alexander von Humboldt Senor Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Surface and Colloid Science Potsdam, and Guest Professor at the Centre for Functional Nanostructures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

He is considered to be the father of Nanochemistry. His career’s work, which include pioneering studies of new classes of nanomaterials, mesoporous materials, photonic crystals and most recently nanomachines, epitomizes how leading-edge research in Nanochemistry can be most effectively directed towards solving contemporary challenges in Nanotechnology and how these contributions have brought true benefit and well being to mankind.

Cheng, D., Zhao, Z.J., Zhang, G., Yang, P., Li, L., Gao, H., Liu, S., Chang, X., Chen, S., Wang, T. and Ozin, G.A., 2021. The Nature of Active sites for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction over Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts. Nature Communications, 12 (1), 1-8. Loh, J.Y., Kherani, N.P., Ozin, G.A., 2020, Waveguide Photoreactor Enhances Solar Fuels Photon Utilization: Towards Maximal Optoelectronic – Photocatalytic Synergy. Nature Communications, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20613-2. Loh, J.Y., Kherani, N.P., Ozin, G.A., 2020, Persistent CO2 Photocatalysis for Making Solar Fuels in the Dark. Nature Sustainability, in press. Xu, Y., Duchesne, P., Wang, L., Tavasoli, A., Jelle, A., Xia, M., Liao, J., Kuang, D., Ozin, G.A., 2020, High-Performance Light-Driven Heterogeneous CO2 Catalysis with Near-Unity Selectivity on Metal Phosphides. Nature Communications 11 5149. Wang, L., Dong, Y., Yan, T., Hu, Z., Jelle, A., Meira, D., Duchesne P., Loh, J., Qui, C., Storey, E., Xu, Y., Sun, W., Ghoussoub, M., Kherani, N., Helmy, A., Ozin, G.A., 2020 , Black Indium Oxide a Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Catalyst. Nature Communications 11 2432. Yan, T., Li, N., Wang, L., Ran, W., Duchesne, P., Wan, L., Nguyen, N., Wang, L., Xia, M., Ozin, G.A., 2020 Bismuth Atom Tailoring of Indium Oxide Surface Frustrated Lewis Pairs Boosts Heterogeneous CO2 Photocatalytic Hydrogenation. Nature Communications 11 6095. Cherukupally, P., Sun, W., Wong, A.P., Williams, D., Ozin, G.A., Bilton, A., Park, C.B., 2020, Surface-Engineered Sponges for Recovery of Crude Oil Micro-droplets from Wastewater. Nature Sustainability 3 136-143. Dittmeyer, R., Klumpp, M., Kant, P., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Crowd Oil not Crude Oil. Nature Communications 10 1818. Qian, C., Sun, W., Hung, D.L.H., Qiu, C., Makaremi, M., Kumar, S.G.H., Wan, L., Ghoussoub, M., Wood, T., Xia, M., Tountas, A., Li, Y., Wang, Lu., Dong, Y., Gourevich, I., Singh, C., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Catalytic CO2 Reduction by Palladium-Decorated Silicon–Hydride Nanosheets. Nature Catalysis 2 46-54. Wan, L., Zhou, Q., Wang, X., Wood, T., Wang, L., Duchesne, P., Guo, J., Yan, X., Xia, M., Li, Y., Jelle, A., Ulmer, U., Jia, J., Li, T., Sun, W., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Cu2O Nanocubes with Mixed Oxidation-State Facets for (Photo) Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide. Nature Catalysis 2 889-898. Ulmer, U., Dingle, T., Duchesne, P., Morris, R., Tavasoli, A., Wood, T., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Fundamentals and Applications of Photocatalytic CO2 Methanation. Nature Communications 10 3169. Yan, X., Sun, W., Fan, L., Duchesne, P., Wang, W., Kubel, C., Wang, D., Kumar, S.G.H., Li, Y., Tavasoli, A., Wood, T., Hung, D.L.H., Wan, L., Wang, L., Song, R., Guo, J., Gourevich, I., Jelle, A., Lu, J., Li, R., Hatton, B., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Nickel@ Siloxene Catalytic Nanosheets for High-Performance CO2 Methanation. Nature Communications 10 2608. Yan, T., Wang, L., Liang, Y., Makaremi, M., Wood, T., Dai, Y., Huang, B., Jelle, A., Dong, Y., Ozin, G.A., 2019, Polymorph Selection Towards Photocatalytic Gaseous CO2 Hydrogenation. Nature Communications 10 2521.