
Dr Beatrice Collins
Phd (Cantab.), MSci (Cantab.), BA (Cantab.)
Current positions
Royal Society Research Fellow/Proleptic Lectureship
School of Chemistry
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Biography
Beatrice studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and was awarded an MSci (first class) in 2009. She then stayed at Cambridge to undertake PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Matthew Gaunt in the field of transition metal catalysis. In 2014 Beatrice moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she spent two years undertaking postdoctoral research with Professor Ben Feringa in the field of molecular switches and motors. In 2016 she moved back to the UK to take up a postdoctoral research position in the group of Professor Varinder Aggarwal FRS at the University of Bristol. In 2018 Beatrice was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to establish her own independent career and has since founded her own research group at the University of Bristol focused on the design and development of autonomously operating molecular motors.
Research interests
Autonomous molecular-level motion is ubiquitous in Nature, and will be a key constituent of the artificial complex molecular systems which will form the basis of future technologies.
Our research is focused on the design and development of autonomously operating molecular motors. Our approach involves the use of modern synthetic methodologies—transition metal catalysis, photoredox catalysis, enzymatic biocatalysis—to tackle the challenges posed by the development of these out-of-equilibrium functional molecular systems. A central aspect of our research programme is the development of cyclic reaction networks and their design, optimization, and analysis underpin our pursuit of controlled motion at the molecular level.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Oxidation State Modulation for Cyclic Chemical Reaction Networks and Controlled Molecular-Level Motion
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
27/04/2024 to 26/04/2027
Does Motherhood Need Mitigating? A Collective Examination of Parenting and Academic Practice
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2023 to 31/07/2023
Royal Society - Enhanced Research Expenses
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/03/2022 to 28/02/2026
Oscillating Photostationary States for Molecular Cargo Transport
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/07/2021 to 30/06/2023
8083 Royal Society URF
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/10/2018 to 30/09/2023
Thesis supervisions
Transition metal catalysis for chemically fuelled rotary molecular-level motion
Supervisors
[1,n]-Rhodium Migrations for Directional Translational Motion
Supervisors
EXACT and Semi-Real Time acquisition methods to accelerate the acquisition of quantitative 13C spectra and to reduce chemical shift scaling experiments power
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023Dynamic Kinetic Resolution and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation of Atropisomers
Science of Synthesis
Biocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers
Accounts of Chemical Research
Corrigendum
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
How big is the pinacol boronic ester as a substituent?
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Enantiospecific Synthesis of ortho-Substituted 1,1-Diarylalkanes by a 1,2-Metalate Rearrangement/anti-SN2′ Elimination/Rearomatizing Allylic Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction Sequence
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition