Sophie Barber

Sophie is based at the University of York. She is researching sugar-derived polymers for molecular recognition, sensing and catalysis.

Sophie completed her MChem at the University of Southampton in 2023, with her final project looking at the inhibition of glycosyltransferase enzymes in Streptococcus mutans to prevent oral biofilm growth and was supervised by Dr Seung Lee. Her PhD is co-supervised by Prof. Antoine Buchard and Dr Hannah Leese from the University of Bath (Department of Chemical Engineering).