Matthew Rosseinsky

Matthew J. Rosseinsky is a British chemist.

He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1987 at St. John 's College, Oxford in 1990 and his Dr. phil. at Merton College, Oxford with Professor Peter Day. Then he worked for two years as a postdoc at AT & T. At Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he discovered the superconductivity of alkali metal fullerides with Donald W. Murphy.

He became a lecturer at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, and in 1999 professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Liverpool in 1992.

Since 2008 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2009 he was awarded the de Gennes Prize. The following year he received the Corday - Morgan Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. For his discoveries for the synthesis of solid-state materials and microporous structures, he was awarded the Hughes Medal in 2011.

Rosseinsky is married and has three children.