Dr Caroline Knapp

Principal Investigator

Dr Caroline Knapp is Lecturer in Molecular Inorganic Chemistry at UCL. Prior to this she held a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship alongside a visiting position at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, funded by an Intermobility grant. She gained her MSci and PhD from UCL under the supervision of Prof. Claire J. Carmalt after which she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Phil P. Power FRS (UC Davis) and Dr Joachim Steinke (Imperial College London). Caroline’s research is primarily concerned with precursor design and the effect of such on the fabrication of various materials. She has experience in the synthesis, isolation and structural characterisation of highly air/moisture sensitive compounds and their subsequent use as precursors to materials, spanning from transparent conducting oxides, to photovoltaics, or metallic interconnects, as well as zeolite and metal organic framework (MOF) synthesis and characterisation. Her laboratory now carries out research designing and isolating precursors for the printing of metals, and is expanding into the field of main group organometallic synthesis with applications in photovoltaics, electrochemistry and catalysis.