Academic interests
Sustainable synthesis of metal-organic frameworks as hosts and supports for catalysts for energy and environmental applications.
Courses taught
- KJM1130 – Physical Chemistry I - Thermodynamics and Kinetics (co-teacher)
- KJM2500 – Synthesis and Characterisation (co-teacher)
- KJM3120 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry (co-teacher)
- KJM5810 – Heterogeneous Catalysis (co-teacher)
- Supervision of various masters and undergraduate research projects.
Background
Ever since I started my life as a researcher I have been fascinated by medium-strength bonds such as coordination bonds, their versatility, flexibility, and applicability in various fields, including energy conversion and storage. I have been involved in their synthesis and characterisation in terms of
- chemical performance (as in catalysis),
- physical properties (magnetic, optoelectronic), and
- their exploitation as construction agents of nano-objects.
I'm interested in using hybrid porous coordination polymers, i.e. metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), as hosts for guest particles, and examining the emergent host-guest interactions with a view to controlling materials properties. Through this approach, I'm aiming at translating nanoconfinement effects together with gentle surface modulation into the design and synthesis of better catalysts, ion conductors, etc.
Awards
- Top50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability (2020)
- JSPS Invitational Professorship (2017)
- Media Fellowship of the British Science Association (2016)
Appointments
- SMN Leadership Member (2024)
- Deputy Board Member of HySchool - Norwegian research school on hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels (2023)
- Elected Member of the International Steering Committee of Metal-Hydrogen systems (2022)
- Elected International Member of the Materials Chemistry Community Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2022)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2021)
- Associate Editor of Energies (2021)
- Fellow of the Women in Engineering Society (UK, 2020)
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research (2018)
Positions held
- Senior Lecturer in Functional Materials - Queen Mary University of London (UK, 2021-2022 and Lecturer 2018-2021)
- Assistant Professor in Materials Chemistry - University of Greenwich (UK, 2015-2018)
- University Lecturer in Solid-State Physics - Curtin University (Australia, 2013-2015)
Partners
I have several collaborations, including but not restricted to the UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, etc.