BARRY - Key Persons
Anaïs graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (French Engineering College in Rennes) with an MSc degree in chemistry in 2008. She then moved to Switzerland at the University of Neuch tel in the group of Prof. Robert Deschenaux to complete her PhD on mesomorphic properties of metallo-dendritic assemblies (pdf file).
She was awarded in 2012 a fellowship for prospective researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation to undertake a one-year research project on cylindrical micelles under the guidance of Prof. Rachel K. O'Reilly and Prof. Andrew P. Dove at the University of Warwick. She then embraced the analysis of soft matter assemblies by synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy in the O'Reilly group. She also joined the group of Dr Nicolas Barry for 6 months to synthesise and analyse in situ precious metal nanocrystals by high-resolution electron microscopy. Anaïs rejoined the Dove group in February 2016 to work on the design of novel elastomers by step-growth polymerisation. Early 2017, Anaïs joined the bioinorganic cluster at the University of Bradford to work on the development of novel metal complexes for different applications such as anticancer drugs or nanomaterials.
Anaïs started a Lecturer position in September 2019 in the School of Chemistry and Biosciences at the University of Bradford and is an Assistant Professor since March 2021.
Nicolas received a MSc in Molecular Chemistry from the Université de Rennes and a MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France, in 2008. In March 2011, he obtained his PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Süss-Fink and Dr Therrien at the Université de Neuch tel, Switzerland. He then moved in October 2011 to the University of Warwick as a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Professor Peter J. Sadler FRS for two years. In 2014, he started his independent career as a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Warwick.
In 2016, Nicolas took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and a proleptic Lecturer position at the University of Bradford in the School of Chemistry and Biosciences. In 2018, Nicolas was promoted to a proleptic Senior Lecturership at Bradford. In 2020, Nicolas was offered a Chair and was promoted to Professor. His research explores the applications of metallated compounds in medicine and in materials sciences.