Anna Slater is a

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the Materials Innovation Factory at the

University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a Public university, public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University (United Kingdom), Victoria University, it received Ro ...

Education

Anna Slater studied

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

, where she graduated in 2006. Slater completed a Ph.D. at the

under the supervision of Professor Neil Champness in 2011.

Career

In 2013 Slater joined the group of Professor Andy Cooper at the

, where she worked on porous organic cages. She is interested in supramolecular chemistry. In 2015 she published "Function-led Design of New Porous Materials" in

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

. She was shortlisted in the 2016 ''Women of the Future'' awards in the science category. In 2016 she was appointed an

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. She looks to develop new functional materials through continuous flow chemistry at the

. Her half-a-million pound grant, "High Throughput Materials Development in Continuous Flow", is supported by the

. She took part in the Sci Annual Review Meeting, talking about new concepts in organic synthesis. Slater was co-chair of the UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA). Slater led a project looking at how researchers took maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave. In 2016 she discussed barriers to mothers from pursuing academia. In 2017, Slater took an exhibit titled "No Assembly Required" to a special joint

Science Museum A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, Industry (manufacturing), industry and Outline of industrial ...

Lates ''Lates'' is a genus of freshwater and euryhaline lates perches belonging to the family Latidae. The genus, generic name is also used as a common name, lates, for many of the species. All species are predatory, and the Nile perch (''L. niloticus ...

", part of a series of events open to adult members of the public that typically attracts over 4000 people. As part of the exhibit, Slater worked with Senior Lecturer and science poet Dr
Sam Illingworth
to produce a series of poems written by the visitors using language from scientific papers in the field.

References

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