MChem, PhD, MRSC
Lecturer
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- Email Address
- rebecca.walker@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
Pronouns: She/Her.
Dr Rebecca Walker graduated with a first class honours MChem degree from the University of Aberdeen and was the recipient of a number of prizes including the City of Aberdeen Quincentenary Prize for academic merit and the William Rudolph Center Medal for Most Distinguished Chemistry Graduate of 2015. She obtained a prestigious Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland PhD Scholarship to continue studying at Aberdeen under the supervision of Professors Corrie Imrie and John Storey, and published her doctoral Thesis "Structure-Property Relationships, Chirality and the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase" in 2019. In 2018, she joined the group of Professor Mirela Delibegovic at the Aberdeen Institute of Medical Sciences to work as a PDRA on a commericial project with Cohen Global Pharmaceuticals as part of the drug discovery team to design and synthesis new molecules as potential candidates to treat Type II diabetes. A second postdoc from 2019-2020 with TauRx Pharmaceuticals drug discovery team sought to design and synthesise new drug candidates for Alzheimer's Disease. Her first academic role was a Lecturer (Scholarship) in the Chemistry Department at the University of Aberdeen, teaching on a variety of courses spanning organic, analytical and physical chemistry and supervising various undergraduate research projects. Her Lecturership in the Chemistry Department began in January 2022.
Qualifications
- MChem Chemistry2015 - University of Aberdeen
- PhD Chemistry2019 - University of Aberdeen
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Chemistry Society Staff Representative 2021-present
- External Memberships
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Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) 2019-present
Member of the British Liquid Crystal Society 2016-present
Latest Publications
Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O.m and CB8O.m series
Liquid CrystalsContributions to Journals: ArticlesThe influence of molecular shape and electronic properties on the formation of the ferroelectric nematic phase
Liquid CrystalsContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2304598
The Influence of the Imine Bond Direction on the Phase Behaviour of Symmetric and Non-symmetric Liquid Crystal Dimers
Journal of molecular liquids, vol. 391, no. Part A, 123226Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTo Be or Not To Be Polar: The Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Nematic Phases
ACS Omega, vol. 8, no. 39, pp. 36562-36568Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Ferroelectric Nematic Phase: On the Role of Lateral Alkyloxy Chains
Liquid Crystals, vol. 50, no. 11-12, pp. 1960-1967Contributions to Journals: Articles
Prizes and Awards
Luckhurst-Samulski Prize for Best Paper in Liquid Crystals (2020)
British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist of the Year (2020)
University of Aberdeen Chemistry Center Medal (2015)
City of Aberdeen Quincentenary Prize (2014)
- Research
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Research Overview
Research Areas
Chemistry
Research Specialisms
- Chemistry
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
Courses
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Liquid Crystal Dimers and Smectic Phases from the Intercalated to the Twist-Bend
Crystals, vol. 12, no. 9, 1245Contributions to Journals: Review articlesIntrinsically chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: An inversion of the helical twist sense at the chiral nematic – Chiral ferronematic phase transition
Journal of molecular liquids, vol. 361, 119532Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNew patterns of twist-bend liquid crystal phase behaviour: the synthesis and characterisation of the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-10-(4-alkylaniline-benzylidene-4′-oxy)decanes (CB10O·m)
Soft matter, vol. 18, no. 25, pp. 4679-4688Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00162d
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21140/1/Alshammari_etal_SM_New_Patterns_of_VOR.pdf
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Photonic Bandgap in Achiral Liquid Crystals—A Twist on a Twist
Advanced Materials, 2103288Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202103288
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Remarkable smectic phase behaviour in odd-membered liquid crystal dimers: The CT6O.mseries
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 5167-5173Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTwist-Bend Nematic Glasses: The Synthesis and Characterisation of Pyrene-based Nonsymmetric Dimers
ChemPhysChem, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 461-470Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202000993
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Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: On the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains
Journal of molecular liquids, vol. 320, 114391Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114391
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Supramolecular liquid crystals exhibiting a chiral twist-bend nematic phase
Materials Advances, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1622-1630Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMolecular structure and the twist-bend nematic phase: the role of terminal chains
Liquid Crystals, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 1232–1245Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe twist-bend phases: structure–property relationships, chirality and hydrogen-bonding
Liquid Crystals Today, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 2-14Contributions to Journals: Articles