Sylvia M Draper 21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2025

Sylvia M Draper

Professor Sylvia Draper graduated in Chemistry from the University of Exeter (1:1) in 1988. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1991 (working with Dr. C. Housecroft on 'Boron Butterfly Clusters') and joined Trinity College Dublin after a short PD fellowship with Professor D. Cardin. She is now Professor of Molecular Materials and Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Trinity College Dublin. An active researcher and co-PI in the AMBER centre, Sylvia’s research has attracted both funding from national and international funding agencies (>7M€) and multiple awards including the national ICI David Browne award and Kathleen Lonsdale prize. Her work focuses on the novel synthesis and application of emissive molecular systems formed at the interface of organic and coordination chemistry. Her opto-electronic materials span N-doped molecular graphenes to triplet photosensitisers and demonstrate improved performance in applications such as triplet photosensitisers (PSs) in triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC), singlet oxygen generation and photodynamic therapy (PDT). Her group's exploration of interesting phenomena and materials has opened up a myriad of new opportunities for exploitation e.g. as sensors or dual therapeutic agents. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lQXVeZcAAAAJ&hl=en Sylvia was the first Trinity recipient of both a Provost Teaching Award and a National Award for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL). She was elected to chair the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Irish local Section (representing 1000+ members, 2019), to become a member of the European Academy of Sciences (2022) and is the Irish national IUPAC representative (sitting on the Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (2022-5)).