Karen has industry experience working in the analytical sciences division of a multinational pharmaceutical company. She has authored six scientific papers in various journals. She works with clients in Oil & Gas, chemical industries, including food chemistry and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and engineering.
Qualifications
- Mchem (Hons, First Class) Chemistry with Industrial Experience
- PhD Chemistry (Investigations into the role of A-amino acids as chiral modifiers for NI-based enantioselective heterogeneous hydrogenation catalysts)
- PGCert Science Communication & Public Engagement
Relevant Specialist Industry Experience
- Glaxo Smith Kline Ltd
- Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
Specialisms and Expertise
- Environmental Chemistry
- Chemical Pharmacology
- Analytical Chemistry
- Properties and Reactions of Matter
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- High Performance Liquid
- Chromatography
- Gas Chromatography
- Molecular Spectroscopy
- Computational Chemistry
- Enantioselective Catalysis
- Heterogeneous Hydrogenation
- Catalysis
- Surface Analysis
- Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
- Reflection Absorption Infrared
- Spectroscopy
- X-ray Photoelectron
- Spectroscopy
- Low Energy Electron Diffraction
- Temperature Programmed Desorption
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- Ultra-high Vacuum Science
