Biography
Dr Julia Rho is a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at University College London. Julia undertook her MChem degree in Chemistry at the University of Warwick and continued at Warwick to complete her PhD in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Sébastien Perrier. Following this, Julia started her postdoctoral research at the University of Florida under the supervision of Prof. Brent Sumerlin, working on cyclic polymers, complex coacervates and photo-initiated polymerisation. Upon returning to the UK in 2021, she joined the Warwick Medical School to develop new sustainable gene delivery vectors to target agricultural insect pests. In 2023, she joined the University of Birmingham as a Group Leader for Prof. Rachel O’Reilly, covering a broad range of projects from polymer self-assembly, crystallisation, fluorescent dyes to DNA.
In 2024, Julia joined the Department of Chemistry at UCL to start her independent research group.
Email: j.rho@ucl.ac.uk
Office: Christopher Ingold Building, 467F
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