Christopher Rhys Bowen has a BSc degree in Materials Science from the University of Bath (1986-1990) and a DPhil in Ceramics from the University of Oxford (1990-1993). Post-doctoral work has been undertaken at Technische Universität Harburg-Hamburg and University of Leeds (1994-1996). He was Senior Scientist at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency from 1996-1998. He joined the University of Bath as a Lecturer in 1998 and is now Professor of Materials. He has recently completed a role as ERC Advanced Investigator (2013-2019) on ERC Grant Agreement no. 320963 on ‘Novel Energy Materials, Engineering Science and Integrated Systems (NEMESIS)’ and is now a UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee (2023-2028) on ‘Processing of Smart Porous Electro-Ceramic Transducers’ (ProSPECT). Research areas include energy harvesting, piezoelectric materials and functional ceramics.