Yuan Gao

Yuan obtained her MChem from Durham University in 2019, where she conducted research under the supervision of Professor AnnMarie O'Donoghue on the synthesis of bis(amino)cyclopropenium derivatives. She subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh with Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, where she focused on the mechanisms of asymmetric phase-transfer-catalysed fluorinations and developed a device to enable in situ monitoring of heterogeneous reactions by NMR spectroscopy. Yuan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath, working on a SCHEMA-funded project supervised by Dr Ulrich Hintermair, with co-supervision from Professor Matthew Davidson and Dr Sourav Chatterjee, developing self-regulating flow reactors to better understand and control copolymerisation processes.