Emerging Women in STEM

Huyen, First-Gen Scholar, received her Integrated MChem Degree from University of Sussex in 2021. She gained industrial experience with GlaxoSmithKline as an undergraduate, working in roles such as New Product Development and Product Chemistry Scientist. Her dissertation work focused on nanoscience’s application in waste-water treatment. Huyen received a PhD studentship to develop more efficient and environmentally friendly antibacterial coatings as well as more realistic protocols to test their performance. Her research will be applied in healthcare settings, e.g., to make hospitals safer.

Vani Naik is motivated by making academia better for all. Theoretically, she does this through pursuing a part-time PhD at Loughborough University on the lack of women engineering professors, and in practice, she provides consulting on academic careers, as well as supports professional doctorate researchers in her capacity as Researcher Developer at Edinburgh Napier university.

Alicia has a BSc (Hons) in Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science and an MSc in Advanced Biomedical Science. My PhD looks at multiomic profiling of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from skeletal muscle. EVs are envelopes of cellular information and are shed from almost all cells. I am looking at the proteins, lipids and small molecules in and on the EVs to identify differences in various scenarios.