Róisín O’Connell completed her MEng in Chemical Engineering at the University of Leeds in 2016. In her final two years she worked on monitoring the solution crystallisation of model pharmaceutical systems in-situ, by infrared spectroscopy.

She next obtained her PhD from Imperial College London, as part of the Centre of Doctoral Training for the ‘Advanced Characterisation of Material’. Her project was concerned with the predictive and controllable design of nano/microporous polymer materials, for the adsorption of pollutants in samples of air. This project was undertaken with the supervision of Prof. João Cabral, Prof. Alexandra Porter, and Prof. Dame Julia Higgins, and was continued into postdoctoral work with additional funding granted from the UKRI Impact Acceleration Account.

Currently, Róisín is working as a Research Fellow on the EPSRC “Nanoman” grant, designing scalable and ‘self-optimised’ reactor platforms, for the production of precision nanoparticles.