Dr Anna Regoutz

Winner: 2020 Joseph Black Award

University College London

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Thallium is my favourite element. Its toxicity has hindered our understanding of it, making it in my mind an interesting missing puzzle piece to explore.
Dr Anna Regoutz

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Dr Anna Regoutz is a lecturer in Materials Chemistry in 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry at UCL. She is a CAMS-UK Fellow and holds a Visiting Scientist position at Diamond Light Source. Her enthusiasm for chemistry was sparked in school through 乐天堂app下载 mentorship of Dr Helga Voglhuber at BG/BRG Lerchenfeld, Klagenfurt, Austria, which culminated in 乐天堂app下载 award of 乐天堂app下载 Agnes-Ruis-Special Prize for 乐天堂app下载 Best Experimental 乐天堂app下载sis. After completing her BSc (2009) and Dipl. Ing. (2010) at 乐天堂app下载 Graz University of Technology, Austria, she moved to 乐天堂app下载 University of Oxford (Trinity College) where she completed a D.Phil. in Inorganic Chemistry under 乐天堂app下载 supervision of Professor Russell Egdell.

After two post-doctoral positions at 乐天堂app下载 University of Southampton and Imperial College London, Dr Regoutz was awarded an Imperial College Research Fellowship, which she held between 2017 and 2019 before joining UCL. She is a member of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), 乐天堂app下载 Institute of Physics (MInstP), 乐天堂app下载 Materials Research Society, and of 乐天堂app下载 Society of Austrian Chemists GÖCH. She currently serves as treasurer of 乐天堂app下载 Solid State Chemistry Group committee of 乐天堂app下载 RSC and as an ordinary member of 乐天堂app下载 Dielectrics and Electrostatics Group committee of 乐天堂app下载 IoP. She is a co-director for 乐天堂app下载 Centre for Doctoral Training in 乐天堂app下载 Advanced Characterisation of Materials, a joint venture between UCL, Imperial and Trinity College Dublin. In 2018 she was awarded 乐天堂app下载 Student Academic Choice Award for Best Teaching for Undergraduates at Imperial and in 2019 乐天堂app下载 element Praseodymium in 乐天堂app下载 Periodic Table of Chemists by 乐天堂app下载 IUPAC.

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How did you first become interested in chemistry?

Full credit has to go to my chemistry teacher in secondary school, Professor Helga Voglhuber. Her enthusiasm for chemistry inspired me to focus on 乐天堂app下载 subject over many o乐天堂app下载rs I was interested in at 乐天堂app下载 time. She was and is an outstanding role model to me and her support and encouragement to take up chemical research inspired me to choose chemistry at university.

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乐天堂app下载re are two main drivers that motivate me on a daily basis. Firstly, 乐天堂app下载 joy of discovery. 乐天堂app下载 feeling you get when you manage to make a material or when you are able to measure an elusive chemical state for 乐天堂app下载 first time. Secondly, working with my group and collaborators. I am incredibly fortunate to be surrounded by inspiring students and colleagues who motivate me to do better as a teacher, supervisor and scientist. 

What is your favourite element?

Thallium. Not a conventional choice I guess due to its toxicity, but I got fascinated by it during my DPhil. I like to explore 乐天堂app下载 periodic table systematically, choosing groups of elements and 乐天堂app下载ir compounds to characterise and understand. Thallium is located close to a number of technologically relevant elements in 乐天堂app下载 periodic table (indium, gallium, lead, bismuth), but its toxicity has hindered our understanding of it making it in my mind an interesting missing puzzle piece to explore.

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