Rachel Crespo-Otero
University College London
Biography
Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero obtained a PhD in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ through a collaborative programme between the University of Havana and the Autonomous University of Madrid. Following two postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and the University of Bath, she joined the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ department at Queen Mary University of London as a Lecturer in January 2015 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019. In May 2023, Rachel moved to the Department of ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at University College London as an Associate Professor.
Her research focuses on developing and applying computational techniques to understand excited states and nonadiabatic processes in organic materials with applications in photochemistry, solid-state lasers, OLEDs, and energy materials. She is particularly interested in combining modelling and experiments to aid the design of efficient materials.
RSC affiliations
Associate editors, Materials Advances
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