Mia Hall

Mia began studying Chemistry at the University of Warwick in 2018 and graduated with a first-class integrated masters degree in 2022. Her MChem project was titled ‘Synthesis of renewable and biodegradable polymers for personal care products’ and was supervised by David Haddleton, in collaboration with Unilever. The project focused on free radical and condensation polymerisation for polymers that were then put on hair, combining polymer and hair studies.

She was then awarded the Monash-Warwick Alliance PhD Scholarship to continue working in the Haddleton group, as well as under the supervision of Tanja Junkers in the Polymer Reaction Design GroupLink opens in a new window in Monash, Australia. She now focuses her research on photo-induced copper-mediated reversible deactivation radical polymerisation in continuous flow with real-time monitoring as well as automation and machine learning and optimising reactions using visible light for milder conditions.

Contact: mia.hall@warwick.ac.uk or mia.hall@monash.edu

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Publications:

1. Visible-light-induced copper-mediated reversible deactivation radical polymerisation without additional photocatalystsLink opens in a new window

M. D. Hall, B. Zhao, E. Liarou, T. Junkers and D. Haddleton, Chemical Science, 2025, 16, 17436–17443.

2. MaDDOSY (Mass Determination Diffusion Ordered Spectroscopy) using an 80 MHz bench top NMR for the rapid determination of polymer and macromolecular molecular weightLink opens in a new window

O. Tooley, W. Pointer, R. Radmall, M. Hall, V. Beyer, K. Stakem, T. Swift, J. Town, T. Junkers, P. Wilson, D. Lester and D. Haddleton, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2024, 45, 2300692.

3. Real-Time Determination of Molecular Weight: Use of MaDDOSY (Mass Determination Diffusion Ordered Spectroscopy) to Monitor the Progress of Polymerization ReactionsLink opens in a new window

O. Tooley, W. Pointer, R. Radmall, M. Hall, T. Swift, J. Town, C. Aydogan, T. Junkers, P. Wilson, D. Lester and D. Haddleton, ACS Polym. Au., 2024, 4, 311-319.

4. Optimisation of azide-alkyne click reactions of polyacrylates using online monitoring and flow chemistryLink opens in a new window

D. Coursari, S. Efstathiou, L. Al-Shok, M. D. Hall,  A. M. Eissa, E. Liarou and D. M. Haddleton, Polym. Chem., 2025, 16, 1065-1071.