Dr Gemma-Louise Davies PhD, DipStat, BA Mode Chem, FHEA

Dr Gemma-Louise Davies

School of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Nanomaterials

Contact details

Email
g.davies.7@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@gemmaloudavies
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Address
School of Chemistry
Haworth Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Gemma-Louise graduated from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) with a Degree in Natural Sciences (Mod. Chemistry) and remained there to undertake a PhD in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (awarded in 2011). Following a brief industry-supported Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trinity College Dublin, Gemma-Louise moved to the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before she was awarded a Global Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick in 2013.

She joined the Department of Chemistry at University College London as Lecturer in Materials Chemistry and Director of the MSc in Materials for Energy and the Environment in July 2017. In 2023, Gemma-Louise joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham as an Associate Professor of Nanomaterials.

Gemma-Louise’s interdisciplinary research focusses on the design and development of nanostructured materials for medical imaging, diagnostic and healthcare applications, industrial application and also investigates the role and fate of nanomaterials in the environment.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, 2011
  • Diploma in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, 2008
  • BA Mod Chem (Hons), Trinity College Dublin, 2006

Other activities

  • Dr Davies is on the Undergraduate Admissions team for the School of Chemistry
  • Associate Editor of Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry B since 2017
  • Associate Editor of Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Advances since 2021
  • Founding member and inaugural chair of the Early Career Colloids Network, RSC/SCI, 2018
  • Committee member SCI/RSC Joint Colloids group, 2017-2023.
  • Committee member of RSC Materials Chemistry Division Council, 2017-2020.
  • Leading chair of symposium “NanoBio Interactions – From Design to Biological Response” SB05, at Spring MRS 2023, San Francisco.
  • Co-chair of Colloids 2023 International meeting.
  • Chair of inaugural Early Career Colloid group meeting 2018.
  • Scientific committee member of Materials Chemistry-14 (MC-14) International conference, 2019.
  • Guest editor with Prof. Yu Chen (Shanghai University, China), Prof. Anders Hagfeldt (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Prof. Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA) of a themed issue for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C, “1D/2D materials for energy, medicine and devices”, 2023.
  • Guest editor with Prof. Marek Urban (Clemson University) of a special issue for Journal of Materials Chemistry B, “Responsive Materials for Healthcare Diagnostics”, 2020.

Publications

A. M. King, T. Insinna, C. Wells, I. Raby, Y. K. Gun’ko, G.-L. Davies, Magnetically driven preparation of 1-D nano-necklaces with strong MRI relaxation enhancement, Nanoscale Advances, 2023, 5, 3209-3213.

C.L.G. Harman, N. Mac Fhionnlaoich, A.M. King, C.J.R. Wells, J.R.H. Manning, P. Scholes, S. Guldin, G.-L. Davies, Controlling the growth of SPION@SiO2 nanoparticles using design of experiments, Materials Advances, 2022, 3, 6007-6018.

Z. Zhang, Y. Wang, M.M.I. Rizk, R. Liang, C.J.R. Wells, P. Gurnani, F. Zhou, G.-L. Davies, G.R. Williams, Thermo-responsive nano-in-micro particles for MRI-guided chemotherapy, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 2022, 134, 112716

C.J. Dedman, A.M. King, J. Christie-Oleza, G.-L. Davies, Environmentally relevant concentrations of titanium dioxide nanoparticles pose negligible risk to marine microbes, Environmental Science – Nano, 2021, 8, 1236-1255 

Z. Zhang, C.J.R. Wells, A.M. King, J.C. Bear, G.-L. Davies, G.R. Williams, pH-responsive nanocomposite fibres allowing MRI monitoring of drug release, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020, 8, 7264-7274

A.M. King, C. Bray, L. Bogart, S. Hall, J.C. Bear, S. Perrier, G.-L. Davies, Exploring precision polymers to fine-tune Magnetic Resonance Imaging properties of iron oxide nanoparticles, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science”, 2020, 579, 401-411

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