Dr. Claudia Tait

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Biography

Claudia E. Tait is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on advancing Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy to enhance the understanding of fundamental spin-dependent processes in materials and devices used in photovoltaics. Having graduated summa cum laude from the University of Padova, she then pursued her DPhil at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Christiane R. Timmel. During her doctoral studies, she utilized various ESR techniques to investigate the electronic structural properties of artificial supramolecular porphyrin arrays in biological systems, which earned her the Bruker Thesis Prize from the ESR group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Subsequently, she served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle under Professor Stefan Stoll from 2015 to 2017 and then moved to Freie Universität Berlin for a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, collaborating with Professors Jan Behrends and Robert Bittl from 2017 to 2020. Her work has been recognized with the John Weil Young Investigator Award from the International ESR Society in 2016.

Research Interests

Experience

Royal Society University Research Fellow

— Present

University of Oxford • Oxford, England

Advancing Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy to study photovoltaic materials.

Postdoctoral Researcher

2015-01-01 — 2017-01-01

University of Washington • Seattle, WA

Worked under Professor Stefan Stoll focusing on spin-dependent processes.

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

2017-01-01 — 2020-01-01

Freie Universität Berlin • Berlin, Germany

Collaborated with Professors Jan Behrends and Robert Bittl on ESR applications.

Awards

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Bruker Thesis Prize

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John Weil Young Investigator Award

2016-01-01

Requirements for University of Oxford

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:24
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Politics, International Relations, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy or Sociology
Application Checklist
  • Three academic references
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  • Statement of Purpose (1,000 words)
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Specialization Notes

Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.