Rianne Lord is an Associate Professor in inorganic chemistry at the University of Warwick, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. She obtained 1st class (hon) MChem degree (2006-2010) and PhD (2010-2014) in bioinorganic chemistry from the University of Leeds under the supervision of Professor Patrick McGowan. Then after a one year PDRA at the University of Edinburgh working with Professor Polly Arnold on the synthesis of low-valent uranium complexes for small molecule activation, she began an independent lectureship at the University of Bradford (2016-2019). During this time, she was awarded two August-Wilhelm Scheer visiting professorships at the Technical University of Munch (TUM) working with Professor Fritz Kühn. Rianne moved to the University of East Anglia as a lecturer (2019), and in February 2021 she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on “Chemical and biological investigations of new vanadium compounds: determining their potential in the treatment of cancer”. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022 and awarded a TUM Global visiting professorship to work with Prof. Angela Casini on new vanadium metallodrugs.

Rianne joined Warwick as Associate Professor in October 2024 along with the Lord Research Group. See the group's website for further detailsLink opens in a new window.