Summary
Dr Rebecca L. Jones is an Inorganic Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Biography
Rebecca studied for her undergraduate MSci degree at Imperial College London (2015-2019) where she had the opportunity to undertake her master’s year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During this year abroad, Rebecca worked under the supervision of Prof. Kit Cummins, on a research project that investigated the photocracking potential of white phosphorus using flow techniques.
Back in the UK, Rebecca then attended the University of Oxford for postgraduate studies (2019-2023). Here, under the supervision of Prof. O’Hare, her DPhil research focused on designing and utilising alkaline-earth (bimetallic) catalysts for biorenewable polymer synthesis.
Since December 2023, Rebecca has rejoined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as an Inorganic Teaching Fellow. Rebecca has current teaching responsibilities across the entire undergraduate degree programme; for a more detailed breakdown, see the ‘Teaching’ tab. She is also involved with departmental outreach activities.
Honours and memberships
Awards
Evans Medal for "Best Inorganic Research Project", Imperial College London, 2019
Diploma for "Best Oral Communication within the Green and Sustainable Theme", 44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, 2022
"The Alan Howe Prize", University of Oxford, 2022
Membership of professional bodies
Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC)
Student Member of the Society of Chemical Industry
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Publications
Riu, M-L. Y., Jones, R. L., Transue, W. J, Muller, P., and Cummins, C. C., 2020. Isolation of an elusive phosphatetrahedrane. Sci. Adv., 6, eaaz3168. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aaz3168.
Jones, R. L., Morris, L. J., Collins Rice, C. G., Turner, Z. R., and O’Hare, D., 2023. Hydrogen-bonding and resonance stabilisation effects in cationic bis(iminium) phenoxide diacids. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 25, 15463-15468. DOI:10.1039/D3CP01881D.
Jones, R. L., Turner, Z. R., Buffet, J-C., and O’Hare, D., 2024. Bis(phenoxy-imine) Alkaline-Earth Complexes with Competing Binding Pockets. Organometallics, 43, 3, 414–426. DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00504.
Publications
Journals
Jones RL, Turner ZR, Buffet J-C, et al., 2024, Bis(phenoxy-imine) Alkaline–Earth Complexes with Competing Binding Pockets, Organometallics, Vol:43, ISSN:0276-7333, Pages:414-426
Jones RL, Turner ZR, Buffet JC, et al., 2024, Phenoxy imine NOON complexes of heavy alkaline earth ions for the ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic esters, Polymer Chemistry, ISSN:1759-9954
Jones RL, Morris LJ, Collins Rice CG, et al., 2023, Hydrogen-bonding and resonance stabilisation effects in cationic bis(iminium) phenoxide diacids., Phys Chem Chem Phys, Vol:25, Pages:15463-15468
Conference
Abbas N, Smith R, Flack S, et al., 2022, Critical shortfalls in the management of PBC: results of the first nationwide, population-based study of care delivery across the UK, ELSEVIER, Pages:S96-S97, ISSN:0168-8278
Abbas N, Culver E, Thorburn D, et al., 2021, Real-world evaluation of second line therapy in Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A multicentre nationwide study, International Liver Congress, ELSEVIER, Pages:S426-S427, ISSN:0168-8278