Professor Malte Grosche has rejoined the Cavendish in 2007, after six years as a lecturer and reader at Royal Holloway, University of London (2001-2007) and three years (1998-2001) as a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. He started out as a Cambridge undergraduate, PhD student at the Cavendish (1991-95) and Trinity College Title A fellow (1994-97).