Biography
Dr Rachael Greenhalgh is a Research Fellow in the University of Southampton, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Materials Innovation Laboratory (MiLab - Formerly Advanced Composite Materials Facilities - ACMF). Her current research focuses on the development of efficient optical modulators using high-throughput combinatorial deposition and characterisation of Barium Titanate (BaTiO₃) thin films with the EPICAL project.
Rachael completed her Masters in Chemistry at the University of Southampton, during this time she completed a year in industry with Ilika Technologies and she contributed towards an article and conference proceedings. She won the best poster prize in her 4th year presenting her work from Ilika.
Her final-year project, conducted under the supervision of Professor Marcel Utz, involved NMR analysis of droplets in PMMA microfluidic chips, this work was published in an article on Lab on a chip and at a conference.
Rachael then went on to study a PhD in solar materials at Loughborough University with Professor Mike Walls at CREST. She was funded by the CDT in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics. Her research focused on deposition and thorough characterisation of CdTe, CdSe and TCO thin films for photovoltaic applications. She contributed to several conference papers and presented her findings at international conferences including IEEE PVSC conferences. During her PhD she was funded by the SuperGEN SuperSolar grant to work in Colorado State University at the Next generation PV Centre (NGPV).
Dr Rachael Greenhalgh has now returned to the University of Southampton to work with the same system she worked on at Ilika, now in the Materials Innovation Lab led by Dr Samuel Guerin.