Becky Greenaway Dr Becky Greenaway is a Lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Ed Anderson. She then worked with Prof. Andy Cooper FRS as a PDRA at the University of Liverpool, before being awarded a URF in 2019 allowing her to establish an independent research career. In May 2020 she joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial, where she now serves on the management team for the EPSRC Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR), the management board for ATLAS – a new high-throughput automation facility for accelerated materials research, and she is the automation lead in the recently launched DigiFAB Institute. Becky is also on the early career advisory board for ChemPlusChem. Current research in the group focusses on the accelerated discovery of functional molecular organic materials assembled using dynamic covalent strategies. This includes the development of high-throughput automated workflows, and also of non-conventional phases of porous materials such as liquids, liquid crystals, and glasses. Silvia Giordani Silvia Giordani is a Full Professor Chair of Nanomaterials and the Head of School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. After receiving a “Laurea” in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Milan (Italy) in 1999, she moved to the Center for Supramolecular Science at the University of Miami (USA) where she graduated with a Master and a PhD in Chemistry. In 2003 she moved to Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland to work on a EU-funded Marie Curie project on “Template Grown Molecular Nanomaterials” as the young researcher. She successfully applied for the Marie Curie reintegration grant to work on a research project at the University of Trieste. In 2007 she received the prestigious President of Ireland Young Researcher Award and started her independent career as Research Assistant Professor at TCD. In September 2013 she funded the “Nano Carbon Materials” research lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). In December 2016 she was appointed Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy and in October 2018 Professor Chair of Nanomaterials within the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. Her main research interests are in the design, synthesis, and characterization of a wide range of nanomaterials for applications in smart and responsive bio- related nanotechnologies. She is the author/ co-author of approx. 150 manuscripts, reviews and book chapters. She is the recipient of many international prizes and honours including the L’Oreal UNESCO for Women in Science fellowship, the William Evans visiting fellowship from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and is a Visiting Scientist to the Bio-Nano Institute at Toyo University (Japan). Tanja Junkers Tanja Junkers graduated with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Goettigen University in Germany in 2006, having worked on the determination of kinetic rate coefficients for radical reactions during polymerizations. In the two years that followed, she was research associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, shifting her focus more and more towards synthetic polymer chemistry. Between 2008 and beginning of 2010 she was a senior research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany in the group of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik. Early 2010 she was then appointed professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, where she founded the Polymer Reaction Design group. In January 2018 she joined Monash University as full professor, focusing on her work on continuous flow polymerizations, (nano)particle formation and design of complex precision polymers. In recent years she expanded her research interests into the field of lab automation, machine learning and data driven polymer chemistry. She is an associate editor for the journals Chemical Science and Polymer Chemistry of the RSC, and a titular member of the IUPAC polymer division.
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