个人简介

Pooja grew up on the foothills of Mount Kenya. Now she is a long way from home but enjoying her new role as a Lecturer at Loughborough University. Her academic career started with a First class (Hons) MChem (Chemistry) degree from Coventry University which included an industrial placement at GlaxoSmithKline. She then went on to pursue a PhD. at the University of Warwick with Prof. Mark Rodger. This was part funded by industry (Cabot Speciality Fluids) and by the Warwick Postgraduate Scholarship. The project involved Computational and Experimental Studies of Formate Brines. These are dense but viscose salt brines used in oil drilling applications. In 2005, Pooja moved to the Dept. of Physics and Materials Science at Uppsala University, Sweden, working with Prof. Peter Oppeneer, Dr. Biplab Sanyal and Prof. Olle Eriksson on a FP7 project looking at diagnosing malaria using a magneto-optical technique which would be fast, efficient and reliable and most importantly non-invasive. After 3 ? years she joined the University of Bath as an EPSRC Research Officer working with Prof. Saiful Islam and Prof. Steve Parker. The projects involved computational studies of materials with applications in Renewable Energy Technologies such as Fuel Cells (collaborating with, Peter R. Slater, Birmingham; Alodia Orera, Spain; Emma Kendrick, Sharp, UK), Lithium Battery materials (collaborating with Peter Bruce, St. Andrews; Paul Madden, Oxford; Derek Middlemiss and Clare Grey, Cambridge) and Thin Film PV materials (collaborating with Laurie Peter and Aron Walsh in Bath). Since then she has been Senior Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, before joining the team at Loughborough.