Jennifer Garden

Garden joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014, where her work investigated the synthesis and design of new heterometallic catalysts for applications in copolymerisation reactions between carbon dioxide/epoxide.^[6]

In 2016, Garden was awarded the inaugural Christina Miller Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh, where she currently leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry.^[7] Her research interests lie in combining approaches from organometallic chemistry and catalyst design to develop sustainable polymer materials (plastics) that can be effectively recycled and generated from renewable sources.^[8][9][10] Her research has been funded and recognised by the British Ramsay Memorial Trust (2017), the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship and the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (2020).^[11][12][13]

Garden is also part of the editorial advisory board of the American Chemical Society's Macromolecules journal.^[14]

Garden has won numerous prizes and fellowships for her contributions to the field of homo- and hetero-metallic catalysis and the advancement in developing such catalysts for applications in polymerisation chemistry and sustainable plastics.

• Dalton Fellowship early career award: Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021)^[15]
• UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2020)^[13]
• L'Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talents Award (2020)^[16]
• Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal (2020)^[17]
• L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship (2019)^[12]
• British Ramsay Memorial Trust Fellowship (2017)^[11]
• Christina Miller Research Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh (2016)^[18]