Speakers

Melanie Britton is a Professor in Chemical Imaging in the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham (UoB). She obtained a BSc in Chemistry from London University (RHC) and a PhD from University of Surrey, before becoming a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massey University (New Zealand), with Paul Callaghan, then Nottingham University (UK), with Ken Packer. She received an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 2000, where she worked at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre in Cambridge University. In 2004, she moved to the School of Chemistry at UoB, where she established the UoB Magnetic Resonance Microscopy Facility. For the last 25 years, she has been specialising in the development of magnetic resonance imaging techniques to probe chemical and electrochemical processes. She is currently the Chair of the UK NMR Discussion Group and the first woman to become Executive Chair of the Division of Spatially Resolved Magnetic Resonance, within the Ampere Society.