Robin has recently published a paper in Science on Generating the Option of a Two-Stage Nuclear Renaissance (Abstract, Reprint, Full Text).
Robin joined the Materials Department at Imperial College in 1995 as Governors' Lecturer. Prior to this he was Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory at the Royal Institution. In 2002 he was appointed the Professor of Materials Physics. He spent the year 2000 at Los Alamos National Laboratory as Bernd T. Matthias Scholar and became a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2006. In 2002 he and was awarded the Rosenhain Medal and in 2010 the Griffith Medal of the IOM3, of which society he is a Fellow.
His primary research interest is the application and development of computer simulation techniques to predict structural and dynamic properties of inorganic materials. Topics of particular interest include radiation damage, nuclear fuels and waste form behaviour and performance (in collaboration with industry and national laboratories), ionic conductivity and defect processes for fuel cell materials, surface structural processes and interfaces between glass and ceramic.
Since 1984 Robin has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is presently on the editorial boards of Journal of Materials Science and Journal of Nuclear Materials. He was appointed Principal Investigator of the Research Councils £6.5M multi-university initiative "Keeping the Nuclear Option Open" in 2005. Since 2008 he has been Director of the Imperial Centre for Nuclear Engineering and in 2010 became the Director of the Imperial College Rolls Royce University Technology Centre in Nuclear Engineering.
