Chemistry researchers win UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

Two Warwick Chemists are among the 77 UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) winnersLink opens in a new window, taking a share of £120 million funding.

This scheme provides long-term fellowship support to early career researchers, enabling them to tackle ambitious programmes in new and emerging research and innovation areas. We are delighted to congratulate two Warwick Chemists, who have been awarded FLF grants to further their research across computational and experimental chemistry.

• Dr Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda's research focusses on the development of computational methods based on quantum chemistry and machine learning techniques to model molecules on metal surfaces and to design functional molecules by generative machine learning. Her aim is to understand and improve plasmonic photocatalytic processes, nanoelectronic and nanooptical devices.

• Dr Raj PandyaLink opens in a new window probes the inner working of materials (biological through to ones for clean energy) using advanced laser spectroscopy/microscopy experiments. His work focuses on both experimental setup development (across the visible-IR, THz and X-ray wavelength ranges) and increasingly theoretical tools to interpret these complex spectroscopies.

Read more at UKRI and stay tuned for project details...