Brianna Heazlewood University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Brianna Heazlewood is an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Early Career Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool. Brianna completed her undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of Sydney, moving to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in 2012. Brianna set up an independent Cold Chemical Physics research group at Oxford in 2016, studying gas-phase reactions under cold and controlled conditions. The Cold Chemical Physics group relocated to the University of Liverpool in 2021. They use techniques including laser cooling and the application of external electric and magnetic fields to control the properties of ionic and neutral reactants—with sensitive detection methods enabling the resulting ion-molecule reaction dynamics and kinetics to be examined. In addition to being of fundamental interest, many of these reaction systems are directly relevant to the chemistry occurring in the atmosphere and in the interstellar medium. Brianna was the recipient of the 2021 RSC Marlow Award and the 2020 IOP Henry Moseley Medal and Prize.
Neil T Hunt University of York, United Kingdom
Neil gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000. He became an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in 2006 and was awarded a European Research Council Starting Investigator grant for 2D-IR spectroscopy development in 2008. Neil was appointed to a Professorship in Ultrafast Chemical Physics at Strathclyde in 2016 and moved to the University of York to take up the post of Professor of Physical Chemistry in 2018. His research interests focus on applications of 2D-IR spectroscopy to determine the role of fast structural dynamics in biomolecular processes.
Anabel Lanterna University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dr Anabel Lanterna is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK. She obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. Her studies focused on the synthesis and manipulation of gold nanoparticles and included stints at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the University of Valencia (Spain), where she became interested in Photochemistry. Following her PhD, Anabel moved to the University of Ottawa, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof Scaiano, where she developed her expertise in heterogeneous photocatalysis. In 2020, Anabel was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, where she began her independent career focusing on the rational design of heterogeneous photocatalysts based on earth-abundant, inexpensive, and stable materials for applications in Sustainable Chemistry and green hydrogen generation. Her scientific contributions are documented in 49 scientific articles, 2 book chapters and 1 patent. She is the recipient of the RSC ECR Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Prize (2022), the Chemical Institute of Canada recognition to Outstanding Young Materials Chemists (2018), and the Inter-American Photochemical Society Gerhard Closs Post-Doctoral Award (2017) for her contributions to Sustainability, Materials Sciences and Photochemistry.
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