Izabela Jurewicz is at the University of Surrey and is currently engaged in interdisciplinary research across materials and life science disciplines, focusing on controlled self-assembly of nanomaterials, woven wearable smart textiles, transparent electrodes for touch screen applications and synthetic scaffolds for tissue engineering. She is now leading, within the framework of an UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship FLF, a multidisciplinary team to advance the development of colour-changing polymeric photonic crystals and metamaterials; and develop a portfolio of industry relevant novel products and deliver a wide variety of innovations that address real-world problems.
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Biography: Izabela received a PhD in Physics in 2009 from the University of Surrey. Following four years work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in 2013 she was awarded a prestigious and highly competitive EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. As a lecturer at the University of Surrey since 2016, Izabela leads the Interdisciplinary Research on Interface Structures (IRIS) Group in the Department of Physics. Izabela has recently been awarded a business hosted UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) for her work on photonic crystal sensors and has joined Advanced Materials Development (AMD Ltd.) as Chief Scientific Officer to help drive the company’s aspirations to become a leading developer of materials based solutions.
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