Editor biographies

Clare Bakewell received her MChem degree from the University of Leeds (2010), before moving to Imperial College London to conduct a PhD under the supervision of Profs Charlotte Williams and Nick Long, which was followed by an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. After spending a year working for the start-up company Econic Technologies, she returned to Imperial for a postdoc with Prof. Mark Crimmin. In October 2018, she started her independent career as a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at University College London. She joined the Department of Chemistry at King’s as a lecturer in October 2021. Her research interests lie in the exploration of electronically interesting main-group compounds.

Nildo Costa obtained his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under the guidance of Professor John A. Gladysz in the fields of synthetic chemistry, organometallics and catalysis. He has worked as a researcher at the University of Bordeaux, University of Bristol, St. Andrews University and Imperial College London. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Central Lancashire before moving to the University of South Wales. Dr Costa supervises a range of projects focusing on organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry and metal hydrides for hydrogen technologies. His main interests are in the area of catalysis, the development of advanced functional materials, metal recovery and hydrogen.

Rebecca Musgrave obtained her MChem degree in 2012 from the University of Oxford, working for Prof. Jose Goicoechea on low-valent organometallics. She then undertook doctoral work on the synthesis, characterisation and application of metallocene-based polymers at Bristol University with Prof. Ian Manners. After this she worked with Prof. Ted Betley (Harvard University) and Dr Rodolphe Clérac (CNRS) on transition metal clusters and their magnetic properties. She joined King’s College London in 2020, where her group investigate multimetallic compounds and polymers.

Gareth R. Owen received his PhD from Imperial College London. He subsequently took a postdoctoral post in the research group of Professor John A. Gladysz, in Germany. There, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. He later returned to the UK to take up a Centenary Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship hosted at the University of Bristol. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, again, at Bristol. He currently holds a Professorship in Sustainable Chemistry at the University of South Wales. His main research interests are focused on hydrogen themes and systems which provide novel methodologies for small molecule activations utilising novel ligand platforms. The main research themes of the group focus on hydrogen storage, catalytic transformations of CO₂ and solutions to industrial challenges.