Professor Anna Regoutz

Anna received her BSc (2009) and Dipl. Ing. (2010) from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. She conducted her D.Phil. research in Inorganic Chemistry between 2010 and 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Russell Egdell at the University of Oxford and Trinity College. During this time, she was awarded a graduate scholarship by Trinity College and served as the President of the Middle Common Room at Trinity College from 2011-2013.

Subsequently, she undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Southampton and Imperial College before taking up an Imperial College Research Fellowship between 2017 and 2019 in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She was also a CAMS-UK Fellow from 2019 to 2023. From 2019 to 2024, she held a Lectureship in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at University College London.

Anna was the 2020 recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Black Award, and in 2019, the IUPAC awarded her the element Praseodymium in the Periodic Table of Chemists.

Anna’s research explores the structure-electronic structure relationship in inorganic solids and how this manifests in their overall physico-chemical characteristics to integrate them into opto-electronic devices. Her group’s work is interdisciplinary, with expertise in thin film synthesis, surface and interface chemistry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Anna’s particular expertise is in the application and development of hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Further current core research areas in the group are sol-gel methods for thin films, materials and interfaces in power electronics, and inorganic materials for biosensors.