Dr Rachel Evans was appointed as the Ussher Assistant Professor in Device Fabrication in the School of Chemistry, TRinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2011. A native of Wales, she received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Wales Swansea, UK and was subsequently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Paris-Sud, France. She later held an FCT research fellowship between the University of Coimbra and the University of Aveiro, Portugal, before cutting this short to move to her current position in Dublin.
Dr Evans’ research is concerned with the development of new photoactive materials for application in solar energy conversion, optical sensing and stimuli-responsive membranes. She currently leads a team of 5 PhD students and 2 postdoctoral researchers. She is a recipient of research grants from Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Research Council and was named Young Leader of the Year at the 2014 Irish Lab Awards.