Pamela Anne Thomas is a British condensed matter physicist, and former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick,[1] where she leads the Ferroelectrics & Crystallography group.
[2] Her work focuses on the structure and related properties of ferroelectric, piezoelectric and nonlinear optical crystals, ceramics and thin-films.
[3] From September 2020 to April 2024, she served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution, an organisation which advances energy storage science and technology.
[8][9] Set up in Warwick & Birmingham, with support from the European Regional Development Fund and by Advantage West Midlands, it provided a £58 M investment in state-of-the-art equipment, housed in purpose-designed buildings with dedicated technical support and HEFCE funded (£10 M) research fellows.
[15] Thomas chaired the UK's Open Research Data Task Force,[16][17] which was established by Jo Johnson in 2016.