Emily R. Draper University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Emily is currently a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Dr Draper’s interests are the characterisation and control of supramolecular structures. She enjoys using small angle neutron scattering, rheology and electrochemistry, trying to combine them all to monitor changes in situ, with the aim to understand and control what processes can occur in these organic supramolecular systems. Dr Emily Draper received her PhD from the University of Liverpool’s School of Chemistry and received the ‘Best Thesis’ award in 2016 from the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry group. She carried out two PDRA positions, one in Liverpool and then at the University of Glasgow working on multi-component gels. In September 2017 Emily was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Leadership Award from the University of Glasgow. Emily then set up her own research group working on flexible electronic materials made from supramolecular self-assembled materials. This has now expanded into chromic devices, ophthalmic devices, and materials for specialised cell culture and differentiation. In 2018, Emily became a Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and in 2020 received the BTM Willis prize in neutron scattering from the U.K. neutron scattering users group for her work on characterisation on supramolecular materials using neutrons. Emily was awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from the UKRI in 2021.
Rachel Evans University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rachel Evans is a Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. She received her MChem and PhD from Swansea University, before undertaking postdoctoral positions at the Université Paris-Sud, France and the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Before moving to Cambridge, she was Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, where she co-founded Senoptica Technologies to commercialise a sensor platform developed in her lab. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining and is the recipient of the 2022 McBain Medal from the RSC/SCI. Rachel leads the Photoactive Materials group whose research focuses the design of soft and hybrid materials for energy, sustainability and sensing technologies, encompassing materials chemistry, advanced characterisation and device implementation. She currently holds a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant to design spectral converters to enhance the deployability of solar cells.
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