Charlotte Williams is currently a reader in the Department of Chemistry. She was appointed at Imperial in 2003, after working as a postdoctoral research associate at Cambridge University, working with Professor Andrew Holmes and Professor Richard Friend on the synthesis of electroactive polymers, and at the University of Minnesota, working with Marc Hillmyer and Bill Tolman on the synthesis of biodegradable polymers. She did her PhD research at Imperial College in organometallic chemistry, working with Vernon Gibson and Nick Long. She has been recognised for her research by the BEPS Oustanding Early Career Academic Award 2011, the RSC Energy, Environment and Sustainability Award (2009), the Meldola Medal (2005) and the Young Researcher Award (2001).
Her group is multidisciplinary and currently consists of 1 JRF, 8 postdocs, 7 PhD students and 2 MSc students. Research in polymer chemistry within her group includes the synthesis of polymerisation catalysts, controlled polymerisations, catalytic activation of renewable resources, synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for applications in medicine and the synthesis of electroactive polymers for applications in electronics.
Recent News
Macromolecules discussino guest on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, 29/12/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018grhm
the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Award (2011): http://www.beps.org/vienna.html
(Award Address at the BEPS meeting in Vienna, September 2011)
Royal Society of Chemistry Energy, Environment and Sustainability Award Symposium (10 March 2010, York)
Read about our recent developments in preparing degradable polymers:
PhD Studentships available for October 2012 in Catalysis and Polymer Synthesis
For more details please email c.k.williams@imperial.ac.uk
