Peter Battle, who retired in 2020, was an undergraduate student at the University of Bristol before coming to Oxford in 1976 to work as a graduate student with Tony Cheetham. He then spent four years as a CEGB Research Fellow in the ICL and at St. Catherine’s College before taking up a lecturership at Leeds University in 1984. He returned to the ICL and St. Catherine's as a Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in 1989 and was given the title of Professor of Chemistry in 2002. He held visiting professorships at Caen (1988), Bordeaux (1995) and Sydney (2014).
