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Conference speaker

Rachel O’Reilly

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Rachel O’Reilly

University of Birmingham, UK

Presentation title: Expanding the scope of aqueous polymerization-induced self-assembly

Rachel O’Reilly is currently a Chair of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. She got her first degree from the University of Cambridge and went on to complete her PhD at Imperial College, London in 2003.

She then moved to the US to under the joint direction of Professors Craig J. Hawker and Karen L. Wooley. In 2006 she took up a Royal Society Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and then in 2009 she moved to the University of Warwick and in 2012 was promoted to full professor. Earlier this year she moved to her current position. Her group undertakes research in the area of catalysis, responsive polymers, nanostructure characterization and DNA nanomaterials. She has published over 175 papers to date and has received a number of awards, including the IUPAC-Samsung young polymer scientist award in 2012, and in 2013 the American Chemical Society Mark Young Polymer Scientist award. In 2017 she was awarded the Macromolecules/Biomacromolecules young investigator award from the ASC in recognition of her innovative research in polymer science. She is on the reviewing board of editors for Science and an associate editor for Macromolecules.