Rachel Evans
University of Cambridge
Biography
Rachel Evans is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge. She obtained her MChem (2002) and PhD in Physical Chemistry (2007) from Swansea University. She was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Paris-Sud, France and subsequently held an FCT research fellowship between the University of Coimbra and the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
From 2009-2017, she was an Assistant Professor, and then an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Rachel’s research is highly multidisciplinary, involving polymer, colloidal and photochemistry, and the use of advanced scattering and spectroscopic characterization techniques. Current interests include the development of photoactive hybrid materials for luminescent solar devices, indoor photovoltaics, solar-thermal energy storage and nanodelivery.
Rachel has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, the McBain Medal and MacroGroup UK Young Researcher’s Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)/ Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), and the Dillwyn Medal for STEMM from the Learned Society of Wales. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
RSC affiliations
Faraday standing committee, Faraday Discussions