B. Jill Venton
University of Virginia
Biography
B. Jill Venton is a Professor of Chemistry and Neuroscience at the University of Virginia. She got her PhD from the University of North Carolina and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan before starting at the University of Virginia in 2005. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and full Professor in 2016. Her research is in electrochemical sensors for making real-time measurements of neurotransmitters. Her lab develops novel electrochemical sensors using carbon nanomaterials and is known for making real-time measurements of adenosine in rats and dopamine in the fruit fly brain. She has won many awards including the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator award. She is also active in many outreach education programs to elementary teachers and students.
RSC affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Methods