Dr. Zoe Schnepp

Dr. Zoe Schnepp is a Birmingham Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her research focus is the creation of functional nanomaterials from renewable resources. In particular, she is interested in using biomass to produce sustainable catalysts for various applications, such as energy generation and transfer. Zoe has spoken in public about her work and to help promote the role of women in science at such events as Soapbox Science.

Zoe completed a PhD with Professor Stephen Mann at the University of Bristol in 2009. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and interfaces in Germany before moving to the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Here, she was awarded an independent postdoctoral fellowship in the International Center for Young Scientists. In 2012, she returned to the UK as a Birmingham Fellow.