IMSE Webinar Series
Greener Plastics Future and Sustainable Materials
The challenge that will be discussed in this session is:
Imaging Physical Degradation of Bio-Plastics
Join us for this informal webinar with Professor Alexandra Porter. There will be an opportunity for question and answer after the presentation. To join this webinar you must register in advance and you will be emailed the joining instructions for the webinar.
Biography
Professor Alexandra Porter
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials, Professor of Bio-imaging and Analysis
Alexandra’s group uses correlative electron microscopy techniques to characterise interfaces between biomaterials and cells. Her great interest is in developing a mechanistic understanding of how the chemistry of these materials controls their degradation behaviour, and ultimate bioactivity, to improve their performance and safety. This interest stemmed from her PhD on understanding the mechanisms by which silicon increases the quality of bone around hydroxyapatite bone grafts (now being sold by Baxter). She works on a number of systems, including the environmental fate and toxicology of nanomaterials / plastics and how bone’s quality and toughness become altered in pathological tissues. She also designs new nanomaterials to cross the blood brain barrier and treat Parkinson’s disease and for treatment of tuberculosis and breast cancers.
Alexandra holds and MEng from Oxford University, and a PhD from Cambridge University in Biomedical Materials. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MIT and The Nanoscience Centre Cambridge, under the guidance of Sir Mark Welland and Prof. Paul Midgley. She held the Oppenheimer Research fellowship for physical sciences at Cambridge University and a Junior Research Fellowship at Newhall College, Cambridge.
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More Webinars in the Greener Plastics Future and Sustainable Materials Series
- 2 June 14.00 Developing Better Manufacturing Processes Through Molecular Engineering presented by Professor Claire Adjiman
- 7 July 14.00 Fibre-based Electronics for Sustainable E-textiles presented by Dr Felice Torrisi
- 14 July 14.00 Imaging Physical Degradation of Bio-Plastics presented by Professor Alexandra Porter