Dr. Georgina Gregory

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Georgina Gregory is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the application-driven design, synthesis, and characterization of polymers with an emphasis on sustainable materials and energy storage applications. Georgina completed her PhD at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT), University of Bath, under Dr. Antoine Buchard, and after a postdoctoral position with Professor Charlotte Williams at Oxford, she was awarded her fellowship in 2022. Her PhD work involved developing new sugar-based polycarbonates for tissue engineering scaffolds, utilizing controlled ring-opening polymerization strategies. Georgina has contributed to both academic and industrial research, including a placement at Syngenta examining polymer coatings and work at Crown Packaging Ltd. where she researched polymer coatings for metal packaging. Currently, her projects are part of the Faraday Institute-funded SOLBAT initiative, focusing on polymers for next-generation solid-state batteries, improving performance with solid polymer electrolytes and mixed electron-ion conducting elastomers. She aims to address environmental challenges through her work on sustainable polymer designs that optimize material properties for biocompatibility and biodegradable applications.

Research Interests

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
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Statement of Purpose (1,000 words)
  • Two academic essays (2,000 words each)
Specialization Notes

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