Jennifer Garden

Jennifer "Jenni" A. Garden is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, where she leads a research group investigating how catalyst design and organometallic chemistry can be used to develop sustainable and degradable plastics using renewable sources.

Jennifer Anne Garden
Alma materUniversity of Strathclyde
AwardsRoyal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCatalysis, polymer chemistry, sustainable chemistry, organometallic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh, Imperial College London
ThesisAdvances in synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of zinc and zincate complexes containing alkyl and/or amido ligands (2014)
Doctoral advisorProfessor Robert Mulvey
Websitehttps://www.gardengroupchemistry.com/

Early life and education

Garden carried out her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, obtaining a Master of Science in 2010. She was awarded the Andersonian Centenary Medal Prize for most outstanding final-year chemistry student.[1]

She continued at the University of Strathclyde for her doctoral studies in chemistry, investigating the development of new zinc and zincate complexes for applications in metallation reactions and obtaining her PhD in 2014.[2][3][4] She was awarded the Hamilton-Barret Prize for her first-year PhD research (2011), and the Ritchie Chemistry Prize for best PhD thesis (2015).[5]

Research career

Garden joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014, where her work investigated the synthesis and design of new heterometallic catalysts for applications in copolymerisation reactions between carbon dioxide/epoxide.[6]

In 2016, Garden was awarded the inaugural Christina Miller Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh, where she currently leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry.[7] Her research interests lie in combining approaches from organometallic chemistry and catalyst design to develop sustainable polymer materials (plastics) that can be effectively recycled and generated from renewable sources.[8][9][10] Her research has been funded and recognised by the British Ramsay Memorial Trust (2017), the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship and the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (2020).[11][12][13]

Garden is also part of the editorial advisory board of the American Chemical Society's Macromolecules journal.[14]

Awards and honours

Garden has won numerous prizes and fellowships for her contributions to the field of homo- and hetero-metallic catalysis and the advancement in developing such catalysts for applications in polymerisation chemistry and sustainable plastics.

References
  1. "Student Prizes | University of Strathclyde". www.strath.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  2. Garden, Jennifer A.; Kennedy, Alan R.; Mulvey, Robert E.; Robertson, Stuart D. (2011-11-09). "Neutral zinc, lower-order zincate and higher-order zincate derivatives of pyrrole: synthesis and structural characterisation of zinc complexes with one, two, three or four pyrrolyl ligands". Dalton Transactions. 40 (44): 11945–11954. doi:10.1039/C1DT11430A. ISSN 1477-9234. PMID 21976071.
  3. Garden, Jennifer A.; Kennedy, Alan R.; Mulvey, Robert E.; Robertson, Stuart D. (2012-05-02). "Ambient temperature zincation of N-Boc pyrrolidine and its solvent dependency". Chemical Communications. 48 (43): 5265–5267. doi:10.1039/C2CC31793A. ISSN 1364-548X. PMID 22531651.
  4. Garden, Jennifer Anne (2014). Advances in synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of zinc and zincate complexes containing alkyl and/or amido ligands (Ph.D. thesis). University of Strathclyde.
  5. "Dr Jennifer Garden | 2021 Dalton Division early career award: Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  6. Garden, Jennifer A.; Saini, Prabhjot K.; Williams, Charlotte K. (2015-12-09). "Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: A Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalyst". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (48): 15078–15081. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b09913. hdl:10044/1/27827. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26618526.
  7. "Christina Miller Research Fellowship | School of Chemistry". www.chem.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  8. Garden, Jennifer A.; White, Andrew J. P.; Williams, Charlotte K. (2017). "Heterodinuclear titanium/zinc catalysis: synthesis, characterization and activity for CO 2 /epoxide copolymerization and cyclic ester polymerization". Dalton Transactions. 46 (8): 2532–2541. doi:10.1039/C6DT04193K. PMID 28154848. S2CID 3340047.
  9. Trott, Gemma; Garden, Jennifer A.; Williams, Charlotte K. (2019-04-24). "Heterodinuclear zinc and magnesium catalysts for epoxide/CO2 ring opening copolymerizations". Chemical Science. 10 (17): 4618–4627. doi:10.1039/C9SC00385A. ISSN 2041-6539. PMC 6492632. PMID 31123572.
  10. Gruszka, Weronika; Garden, Jennifer A. (2021-05-31). "Advances in heterometallic ring-opening (co)polymerisation catalysis". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 3252. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.3252G. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23192-y. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8167082. PMID 34059676.
  11. "Ramsay Trust Memorial Fellowship". www.soci.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  12. "DR JENNIFER GARDEN - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament". edm.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  13. "UKRI invests £109 million in future leaders". www.ukri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  14. "Macromolecules". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  15. "Dr Jennifer Garden | 2021 Dalton Division early career award: Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  16. "22nd L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards recognizes five exceptional women researchers in the life sciences". UNESCO. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  17. UK, Macro Group (2020-11-30). "Macro Group Medal 2020". Macro Group UK. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  18. "Christina Miller Research Fellowship | School of Chemistry". www.chem.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
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