Sen Hon Prof Fellow: Christopher Hall

Christopher Hall has been made a Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow.

He has been Professor of Materials with the School of Engineering since 1999.

He is also Director of the Centre for Materials Science & Engineering.

He played a leading part in establishing the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions.

He read chemistry at Oxford where he then obtained a DPhil in physical chemistry before taking a lectureship in civil engineering at the University of Manchester in 1972.

In 1983 he was appointed Head, Rock and Fluid Physics at Schlumberger Cambridge Research (SCR), was later Head, Chemical Technology at Dowell Schlumberger and then returned to SCR as Scientific Adviser.

He was a Faculty Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1998.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at Manchester since 1994.

He won the Royal Society Senior Mercer Award for Innovation in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Professor Hall’s main scientific interests are in the chemistry of materials and geomaterials used in oilfield and civil engineering, notably in experimental methods for studying reactive transport.

He is now heavily involved in research on conservation of historic buildings and artefacts in the new University of Edinburgh/National Museums of Scotland Joint Research Laboratory for Conservation Materials Science.