Staff
Professor Anna Croft PhD, SFHEA
Professor of Disruptive Chemistries
Programme Director for Bioengineering
- +44 (0)1509 227670
- a.k.croft@lboro.ac.uk
- Room S2.067 S Building
- Net Zero, Biotechnology and Healthcare, Sustainable Manufacturing and Circular Economy
- Research publications
- View Google Scholar profile
- View ORCID profile
Background:
Anna obtained her BSc degree, majoring in Chemistry and Biochemistry, from the University of Adelaide, Australia. After completing an honours degree in Organic Chemistry at the same institution, she went on to complete her PhD at the Australian National University looking at the processes governing formation of free radicals in proteins.
She subsequently completed a European Union-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, examining the chemistry of coenzyme B12-dependent enzymes, and was then offered a full academic post at the University of Wales Bangor, where she established her own research group. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer there in 2011 and held visiting positions at the Australian National University (2002), Queens University, Belfast (2007), University of New South Wales (2008), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010).
In 2013 she joined the Bioprocessing and Biorenewables group at the University of Nottingham, where her team focussed on understanding how biological processes can be used as templates to improve chemical reactivity/intermolecular structuring and, similarly, how an understanding of chemical reactivity can be used to direct biomolecule reactions and structuring for specific outputs (such as production of high-value chemicals and feedstocks from biorenewables, and 3-D printing applications). She won the Dean’s prize in 2014.
In 2023 she took the position of full Professor at Loughborough University, where she will continue with her leading research on ionic liquids, radical enzymes, sustainable 3D printing, biotech, and more.
