Anna Slater
British supramolecular chemist
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Anna Grace Slater (née Phillips)[1] is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool.
Anna Slater | |
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| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Supramolecular chemistry Continuous flow chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
| Doctoral advisor | Neil Champness |
Education
Slater studied chemistry at the University of Nottingham, where she graduated in 2006. Slater completed a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Neil Champness in 2011.[1]
Career
In 2013 Slater joined the group of Andy Cooper at the University of Liverpool, where she worked on porous organic cages.[2] She is interested in supramolecular chemistry.[3] In 2015 she published "Function-led Design of New Porous Materials" in Science.[4] She was shortlisted in the 2016 Women of the Future awards in the science category.[5][6]
In 2016 she was appointed an EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow.[7][8] She was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2021, senior lecturer in 2021/22 and to a personal chair in 2022.[9][10][11]
She looks to develop new functional materials through continuous flow chemistry at the University of Liverpool.[10] Her half-a-million pound grant, "High Throughput Materials Development in Continuous Flow", is supported by the Royal Society.[11] She took part in the Sci Annual Review Meeting, talking about new concepts in organic synthesis.[12]
Slater was co-chair of the UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA).[13][14] Slater led a project looking at how researchers took maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave.[15][16] In 2016 she discussed barriers to mothers from pursuing academia.[17]
In 2017, Slater took an exhibit titled "No Assembly Required" to a special joint Royal Society/Science Museum "Lates", part of a series of events open to adult members of the public that typically attracts over 4000 people.[18][19][20][21] As part of the exhibit, Slater worked with Senior Lecturer and science poet Sam Illingworth to produce a series of poems written by the visitors using language from scientific papers in the field.[22][23]
She is an Associate Editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.[24]
She is a former vice-chair, and a member of the advisory board, of WISC (Women in Supramolecular Chemistry), a group "supporting women and those who are marginalised to progress within supramolecular chemistry through creating a sense of community and kinship" and is one of the co-authors of the 2022 book Women in Supramolecular Chemistry: Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM (Policy Press: ISBN 978-1447362371).[25][26][27]
Personal life
Awards
- Harrison-Meldola Memorial Award (2023)[10]
- Two Royal Society Fellowships (DHF 2016, URF 2021)[28]
- Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (2020)[28]
- Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society (2016)[28]