Pamela Thomas


Pamela Anne Thomas is a British condensed matter physicist, and Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick, where she leads the Ferroelectrics & Crystallography group. Her work focuses on the structure and related properties of ferroelectric, piezoelectric and nonlinear optical crystals, ceramics and thin-films.

Education

Thomas studied at Physics at the University of Oxford. She completed her DPhil, 'Optical activity in crystals' at the University of Oxford in 1987 under Professor.

Career

In 1992, Thomas was awarded the Physical Crystallography Prize of the British Crystallographic Association.
From 2009–2012, Thomas was the Director of the Science City Research Alliance for the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. SCRA was a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick, intended to provide world-leading research and knowledge support across three major platforms: advanced materials, energy futures and translational medicine. Set up in Warwick & Birmingham, with support from the European Regional Development Fund and by Advantage West Midlands, it provided a £58 M investment in state-of-the-art equipment, housed in purpose-designed buildings with dedicated technical support and HEFCE funded research fellows.
In 2011, Thomas was appointed the Chair of the Faculty of Science at the University of Warwick. Thomas is the Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick, and has been a Pro Vice Chancellor since 2014. She is also a trustee of the Faraday Institution, and was previously on the board of the Alan Turing Institute where she represented the University of Warwick. Thomas chaired the UK's Open Research Data Task Force, which was established by Jo Johnson in 2016.