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An innovative, sustainability-driven start-up focused on developing high yield, low cost mineral extraction and water treatment systems to aid the transition towards a circular economy.

As part of the business development team in the new Green-Hydrogen Business in Johnson Matthey, I managed key customer relationships. This included securing legal agreements, working on development agreements, interfacing between technical and commercial teams within the customer organisation and Johnson Matthey to deliver samples for development and large-scale supply.

Successfully developed and deployed a CRM system into the Fuel Cells business within 8-months.

Business analyst in an IT transformation project for the market and sales planning process in the automotive sector.

Developed a business case for a new technology in green hydrogen, which directly influenced JM’s long-term strategy in hydrogen technologies including the creation of the Green Hydrogen Start-Up.

Awarded a 4-year position on the Graphene NOWNANO Centre for Doctoral Training programme funded by EPSRC.

Research focused on the development of innovative nanotechnology for chemical sensing with applications in the detection of narcotics and explosives and in the improvement of biomedical diagnostic systems. Highly multidisciplinary research involving synthetic chemistry and nano- fabrication, and a range of analytical and computational techniques to probe performance.

Privately tutored students, from 17 to 30 years old, in A-level and undergraduate chemistry.