Dr Tessel Bouwens is an NWO Rubicon Fellow in the Reisner lab and a Junior Research Fellow at Darwin College. She is researching the use of artificial photosynthesis to develop synthetic medicines.

May 2024

Gates scholar pioneers graphene carbon capture

Nov 2023

Atmospheric pollutants are often associated with warming the environment, but Vichawan ‘Print’ Sakulsupich investigates aerosols that cool down the atmosphere.

Nov 2023

Atmospheric pollutants are often associated with warming the environment, but Vichawan ‘Print’ Sakulsupich investigates aerosols that cool down the atmosphere.

May 2023

Libby describes her own experience of an industry-linked PhD. She researches biochemistry identifying new proteins that are of interest to future pharmaceutical therapies.

May 2023

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ English wanted to connect with other women in neuroscience but couldn’t find quite the right organisation. So she started the Women in Neuroscience Network in the UK.

Nov 2022

Final year PhD student, Sandile Mtetwa, experienced a lot of power cuts during her undergraduate years at the University of Zimbabwe, which got her thinking about energy and sustainability.

May 2022

PhD student Tomi Akingbade founded the Black Women in Science network as an undergrad at Nottingham. Now the network has over 100 members and is still growing.

May 2022

PhD student Fahmida Kahn researches passivation in the Clarke group - and she also creates beautiful drawings.

May 2021

Professor of Chemical and Molecular Biology Sophie Jackson is still excited by her research and the new paths it is taking.

January 2021

PhD student Anika Krause is studying the impact of air pollution on human health.

August 2019

Technical Officer Dr Heather Greer can't wait to get her hands on our new Transmission Electron Microscope.

December 2018

Dr Jenny Zhang is developing ways to turn sunlight into green fuels.

May 2018

Dr Karen Stroobants researches membrane protein aggregates and their potential role in neurodegenerative diseases.

February 2018

Dr Ana Belenguer is working on the synthesis of organic reactions in the solid state using ball mill grinding

August 2017

Dr Tanya Hutter is a director and co-founder of her own company, SensorHut.

August 2017

Ruth Lynden-Bell, Professor Emerita of Queen’s University Belfast, is an alumna of the department and a long-standing visiting professor. 

June 2016

Dr Silvia Vignolini developed a passion for science after picking up a copy of Hawking's A Brief History of Time in a high school class.

June 2015

An inspirational female teacher encouraged Dr Deborah Longbottom’s to study chemistry at university. 

March 2015

Professor Melinda Duer’s pioneering experiments on bone using NMR spectrometry have led to a new understanding. 

March 2015