Dr Christina Picken

Christina is a postdoctoral research associate working in collaboration with Unilever on the synthesis and testing of bio-based and degradable polymers for liquid formulations. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Reading which included a year in industry at Johnson Matthey, where she worked in Fuel Cell R&D. She then completed a PhD at University College London exploring polymeric pharmaceutics and later applied this to studying polymeric self-assembly for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes at Somaserve Ltd. She is passionate about building sustainability into research and teaching, achieved the first gold LEAF lab award at UoM and helps lead lab sustainability efforts across the university. She actively supports outreach activities and events which promote equality, diversity and inclusion within STEMM.