Derek John Fray (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge.
[2][3][4][5][6][7] Fray was educated at Emanuel School,[1] and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial College London.
Since 2015 he has held the title of a Distinguished Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge Derek Fray is the main inventor of the FFC Cambridge process for the direct electrochemical reduction of metal oxides to metals and alloys along with co-inventors Tom Farthing and George Chen.
Several of these patents have been licensed to university spin-out companies of which he is a founding Director, including Metalysis, EMC, Camfridge, Chinuka and InotecAMD.
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