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Ainara has two prvious years of industrial experience as a research assistant at Inasmet. During this period, her research focussed on the synthesis and purification of carbon nanotubes. She completed her PhD in Chemistry, which was a direct collaboration between the University and Tecnalia; here she applied the fundamentals of the chemistry of carbon nanomaterials as technological solution. After this, she moved to the University of Trieste in Italy as part of the group of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (CENMAT), and then onto a short post-doc at the Department of Biomaterials and Nanotechnology in the Health Unit of Tecnalia.

Chris Kay moved to UCL in 2006 as Senior Lecturer and is PI in both the LCN and the Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology (UCL / Birkbeck). He studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he remained for his PhD, and first developed his interest in processes involving free radicals.

David Chadwick obtained his PhD in Chemistry from University College London. He then spent 2 years at the University of British Columbia as NATO fellow, before joined Imperial College Chemical Engineering in 1974.

Irene joined Bio Nano Consulting in April 2010, after completing a completed her PhD, where he research focused on electrochemical and photoelectrochemical studies of semiconducting oxides such as KTaO3,  ZnO, and TiO2  in the production of hydrogen via electrolysis of water. This research was undertaken at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, U.S.A.

Ivan Parkin's PhD studies were in main group synthetic chemistry and that produced 20 publications in international Journals. Post-doctoral study was in metal- metal multiply bonded chemistry and produced 10 publications.

Professor Jawwad Darr received his PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College London. His post-doctoral studies were aimed at developing volatile metal–organic CVD precursors to solid oxide fuel cells and secondly, at the University of Nottingham, developing greener supercritical fluid routes to catalyst preparation and nanomaterials.