Professor Kelly Morrison specialises in the characterisation of magnetic materials for energy applications, including magnetic refrigeration, thermal energy harvesting and spintronics.

Whilst a PhD student at Imperial College London, she worked on a variety of magnetic and superconducting materials, focusing on the magnetocaloric effect for more efficient magnetic refrigeration.

She won the Anne Thorne thesis prize for her work, developing the use of a novel microcalorimeter to identify signatures of different types of phase transitions in magnetocaloric materials.

She moved to Loughborough in 2013 to take up a Lectureship and redirected her research interests towards magnetic thin films, in particular for spintronic or energy harvesting applications. In 2017, she secured an EPSRC Fellowship for her work on the spin Seebeck effect in magnetic thin films.

She is actively involved with several external panels and advisory bodies, including for the EPSRC and Institute of Physics as well as neutron facilities such as ISIS and the ESS.

She has served on the East Midlands Institute of Physics committee for more than eight years, most notably helping to create the I’m a Physicist Girlguiding badge that has been completed by more than 40,000 girls since its launch in 2019.