Department Profiles 2021

For International Women's Day and Women at Imperial week 2021, our Departmental profiles focus on the personal achievements and challenges of women in our Department.

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Professor Alex Porter

Professor Alexandra Porter

Professor Alexandra Porter is a Professor of Bioimaging and Analysis in the Department of Materials. At the beginning of 2021, Alexandra was key to starting the donate your device campaign to support children during the nationwide lockdown.

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Professor Sandrine Heutz

Professor Sandrine Heutz is a professor of Functional Molecular Materials. In 2020, Sandrine took on the position of Director of Facilities at the Department of Materials and co-Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

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Dr Hui Yang

Dr Hui Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department. Hui works in the group of Professor Aron Walsh, and her research focuses on battery modelling.

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Raj Adcock

Raj Adcock is a Teaching Operations Manager in the Department. Over the last year, Raj has led the Student Office through the difficulties of supporting students from a distance and remote examinations.

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Dr Eleonora D'Elia

Dr Eleonora D'Elia is a Strategic Teaching Fellow for Outreach in the Department. This year she led the creation of lab in a box project, volunteered to create face shields for hospitals and recently won the Materials Community Champion Award.

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Dr Ecaterina Ware

Dr Ecaterina Ware is a Research Facility Assistant in the Department. She has helped keep the Electron Mircosopy labs operational during the nationwide lockdown and has helped research staff and students access these facilities.

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Ijeoma Patrick

Ijeoma Patrick is a third-year Postgraduate Research student in the Department. Ijeoma is part of Professor Molly Stevens' FREng research group - a group making groundbreaking advances in the field of diagnosis.

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Aishwarya Varanasi

Aishwarya Varanasi is a third-year Undergraduate student. In 2020/21 Aishwarya is the Magazine Editor for MatSoc magazine - a bi-yearly magazine published on behalf of the Materials Society.

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Shirley Xu

Shirley Xu is a first-year Undergraduate student. Shirley is a year group representative for our first-year students - helping to be a liaison between staff and students to create a better student experience for our first year students.

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