Gail Vinnacombe-Willson Email & Phone Number

Donostia-San Sebastián, País Vasco / Euskadi, España

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• Advanced the understanding of how bottom-up wet chemical synthesis, soft lithography, and surface chemical functionalization of polymers can be combined to create nanopatterned plasmonic substrates. • Established methods for scalable fabrication of plasmonic substrates and provided data key for securing a two-year international collaboration grant.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Led a project integrating plasmonic nanoparticles in microfluidic platforms and on polymers for biomedical applications.• Connected with groups outside my area of expertise and formed new collaborations with groups outside my field and engaged with a diverse team of engineers, physicians, and chemists.• Produced one 1st-author paper (ACS Cent. Sci.) and one 3rd-author paper (ACS Mater. Lett.), a patent, an oral presentation, two national and one international poster presentations, and one poster award.• Mentored bioengineering students in a project designing a 3D-printed fitting for uniform distribution of aerosols into cell-culture plates for applications in therapeutics for cystic fibrosis.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Elucidated key mechanisms which increased understanding of the role of curvature in annulene carbon-carbon rearrangements using computational chemistry (DFT, coupled cluster methods).• Produced a 3rd author publication in J. Org. Chem., two oral and four poster presentations, and one oral presentation award.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry