Nessa the Chemist

@SuperScienceGrl

My Activity

Presentations

TBC (Invited conference talk)
Journées de Chimie Organique JCO

Oct 2025

Developing a blueprint for effective data management between sponsor and vendor (Invited conference talk)
Biotech Outsourcing Solutions

Nov 2024

Bridging science & technology: Navigating the digital frontier (Invited symposium talk)
RSC BMCS-CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation

Nov 2024

From molecules, to robots, to people (Invited departmental symposium talk)
Oxford University Women in Chemistry Day

Oct 2024

AI & data in the process development space (Invited symposium talk)
RSC Digital Discovery webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Data in Drug Discovery and Development

Oct 2024

Navigating the digital frontier: Chemical data for people and robots (Invited departmental symposium talk)
King's College London Women in Industry Day

Oct 2024

How not to waste a chemist's time: Chemical insights through great user experience (Invited conference talk)
ChemTalks

Sep 2024

Elevating data quality in the age of automation (Invited conference talk)
ACS National Meeting

Aug 2024

High-throughput electrochemistry to enable scaleup in pharma (Invited conference talk)
EuChemS Chemistry Congress

Jul 2024

Elevating data quality in the era of self-driving labs (Invited conference talk)
Future Labs Live

Jun 2024

AI in Publishing: Dos and Don'ts (Invited panel discussion)
#RSCPosterLive

Mar 2024

Championing "digital" at AstraZeneca (Invited conference talk)
SCI Big Data III and Artificial Intelligence for Chemistry

Feb 2024

High-throughput experimentation (Invited training workshop)
ICIQ Marie Curie ITN

Nov 2023

Championing “digital” at AstraZeneca (Invited conference talk)
2nd Automated Intelligent Chemistry

Nov 2023

Talk to all your robots at once: A beginner Python conceptual workframe (Invited conference talk)
ELRIG Drug Discovery

Oct 2023

Better to best electronic lab notebook practices (Invited panel discussion)
20/15 Visioneers – Better to Best ELN Practices

Sep 2023

No such thing as magic! Enabling chemical insights through user experience (Invited conference talk)
ILMAC Conference

Sep 2023

The future of chemistry (Invited panel discussion)
World Chemistry Leadership Meeting @ IUPAC CHAINS

Aug 2023

Digital transformation of chemistry (Invited conference talk)
World Chemistry Leadership Meeting @ IUPAC CHAINS

Aug 2023

Championing "Digital" at AstraZeneca (Invited conference talk)
Gordon Research Conference: High-throughput chemistry & chemical biology

Jul 2023

Careers in Chemistry & High-Throughput Synthesis (Invited panel discussion)
Gordon Research Seminar: High-throughput chemistry & chemical biology

Jul 2023

Electrochemistry in High-Throughput (Invited conference talk)
57th RICT International Conference on Medicinal Chemistry

Jul 2023

Talk to all your robots at once: A beginner Python conceptual workframe (Invited conference talk)
Future Labs Live

Jun 2023

Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization (Invited departmental talk)
University of Birmingham

May 2023

Assessing the potential of mobile robotics in drug development (Invited panel discussion)
Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress

Apr 2023

Automate the boring stuff: Talk to all your robots at once (Invited conference talk)
Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress

Apr 2023

Beyond the binary: LGBTQA in Chemistry (Invited symposium talk)
University of Sheffield

Mar 2023

Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization (Invited departmental talk)
University of Sheffield

Mar 2023

Robots in the Lab (Invited webinar)
Chemistry World

Feb 2023

Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization (Invited departmental talk)
University of St Andrews

Feb 2023

The digital future of process chemistry & technology (Invited panel discussion)
The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology

Nov 2022

Automate your own HTE workflow (Invited conference talk)
The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology

Nov 2022

Automate your own HTE workflow (Invited conference talk)
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, & Lab Automation Conference

Nov 2022

Future looking strategies for robotics & automation (Invited roundtable host)
SmartLabs & Pharma Data

Sep 2022

Automated workflows: When should they actually be utilized? (Invited panel discussion)
SmartLabs & Pharma Data

Sep 2022

Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization (Invited departmental lecture)
Monash University

Jul 2022

Industrial electrochemistry: From screening to scaleup (Invited summer school lecture)
ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry

Jul 2022

Forging New Pathways (Invited panel discussion)
CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways

Jun 2022

Automate your own HTE workflow (Invited conference talk)
High-Throughput Experimentation Summit

Jun 2022

Has the digital promise been met? (Invited panel discussion)
Future Labs Live

Jun 2022

Digital Needs of the Scientific Community (Invited panel discussion)
AI4SD AI 4 Scientific Discovery conference

Mar 2022

Scripting Chemistry Workflows for Automation Efficiency (Invited conference talk)
Emerging Technologies in Organic Chemistry ETOC Symposium

Feb 2022

ChemCareers 2022: Digital Skills for Chemists (Panel discussion)
RSC ChemCareers symposium series

Jan 2022

Robots and automation in chemical reaction optimization (Invited talk)
University College London Chemical & Physical Society

Jan 2022

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited talk)
AI3SD Autumn Seminar Series

Dec 2021

Industrial Electrochemistry: From Screening to Scaleup (Invited conference talk)
Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference

Dec 2021

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited departmental talk)
IBM

Dec 2021

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited conference talk)
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, and Lab Automation Oriented Virtual Conference, 20/15 Visioneers

Oct 2021

Sowing the seeds for discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry (Invited conference talk)
CatSci 10 year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development

Oct 2021

Data management: at the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited conference talk)
Applied Catalysis Hub & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting

Sep 2021

Automation and high-throughput experimentation careers (Invited departmental talk)
Imperial College London

Sep 2021

Data management for high-throughput chemistry (Invited conference talk)
VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data Science-assisted Synthesis

Jul 2021

Sowing the seeds of discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry (Invited conference talk)
University of Sydney

Jun 2021

High-throughput chemical reaction optimization (Invited conference talk)
European Robotics Forum

Apr 2021

Optimization of a mechanistically-complex Stille reaction for agrochemical SAR exploration (Invited conference talk)
ACS National Meeting

Apr 2021

Networking: Keeping science connected (Invited breakout room host)
Nottingham Celebrating Women in Chemistry

Mar 2021

Making HTE easier & more accessible to scientists (Invited panelist)
20/15 Visioneers

Feb 2021

Data, Digitalization & Artificial Intelligence (Invited workshop host)
SCI

Feb 2021

Careers in chemistry research at Syngenta (Invited conference talk)
e-YCN @ EuChemS Chemistry Congress

Aug 2020

Chemistry and automation (Invited symposium talk)
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium

Feb 2020

Twitter and freelancing for chemists (Invited guest lecture)
MoSMed CDT, Durham University

Jan 2020

Organic Chemistry – but Faster (Invited research seminar)
University of Kent, UK

Oct 2019

Freelancing for chemists (Invited conference talk)
ICIQ PhD Day, Tarragona, Spain

Jun 2019

Digital media for careers in chemistry (Invited conference talk)
Nottingham Women in Chemistry Conference, University of Nottingham, UK

Mar 2019

High-Throughput Reaction Optimization (Invited career talk)
RSC Careers & Networking Event, Burlington House, London, UK

Dec 2018

WHY make unnatural amino acids?
Out Thinkers, London, UK

Feb 2018

Cotton & Wilkinson Student Seminar Series
UIUC, IL, USA

Organized the seminar series and gave four of the talks on the chemistries of the transition metal elements.
Jun–Aug 2016

Law and Narcotics
Oxford University, UK

Oct 2011

Event organization

A list of events I've organized or helped to organize.
OUSS = Oxford University Scientific Society

Date Speaker/Title
May 2025 26th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium
(RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers.
Mar 2025 UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2025
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Nov 2024 RSC-BMCS/CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation
(RSC CICAG) A half-day online symposium on robotics and automation in chemistry.
Nov 2024 Automated Synthesis Forum
A 2-day conference on data, automation, and the future of synthesis, in Oxford.
Sep 2024 Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry
(RSC CICAG) A popular, 2.5-day conference + workshop on all aspects of AI in chemistry, held at Churchill College, Cambridge.
May 2024 2nd RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postdoctoral Symposium
Two plenary speakers and several postdoctoral research talks.
Mar 2024 UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2024
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
May 2023 25th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium
(RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers.
Mar 2023 UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2023
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Sep 2022 RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 37th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations
Mar 2022 UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Sep 2021 RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 36th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations
Mar 2021 UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Oct 2020 SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry conference
(SCI YCP) Conference over two afternoons, to bring together experts from industry and academics/students alike, interested in developing or using automation within organic and medicinal chemistry
Sep 2020 RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 35th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations
Jul 2020 2020 Retrosynthesis Competition Winners' Showcase
Virtual webinar from SCI YCP and FCG
Jul 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Scott Bagley, Pfizer, and Richard Horan, GSK
"Pd-catalysed preparation of cyclic alkenylsulfonyl fluorides: a new motif for sulfur-fluoride exchange"
"Control in process development: Evolution of the manufacturing route to vestipitant"
Jul 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh, & Iustina Slabu, Johnson Matthey
"Modern approaches to reduction reactions"
"Biocatalysed nitro reductions and main group catalysis for hydroboration reactions"
Jun 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Kevin Lam, University of Greenwich
"Electrons, cations, and radicals: An electrifying journey"
Jun 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Lars Baerfacker, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
"Discovery of finerenone: An MR antagonist for the treatment of cardiorenal disease"
Jun 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Matthew Burns & Jean-Marc Henry, AstraZeneca
"AZD5718: Route design to manufacture"
May 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Dave Lathbury, Astute Chemical Design
"Early CMC studies in drug development, medicinal chemistry-chemical development interface"
May 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Liza Dunn, Bayer Crop Sciences
"Pesticides are critical for public health"
May 2020 SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Vicky Steadman, Eurofins
"Discovery of a potent and orally-bioavailable macrocyclic cyclophilin inhibitor"
Mar 2020 #RSCPoster Twitter conference
Global Twitter-based poster conference run by the RSCA
Dec 2019 26th SCI Annual Review Meeting
"Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis"
Sep 2019 RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 34th Postgraduate Symposium
(RSC HSG) Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations & poster session, held at AstraZeneca Macclesfield
May 2019 24th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium
(RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers
Feb 2019 Dr Suzie Sheehy, Oxford University Particle physics
(OUSS) Particle accelerators: from curiosity-driven research to life-changing technology
Jan 2019 Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK Chemistry
(OUSS) Don’t process chemists just make things bigger?
Nov 2018 Prof Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University Chemistry
(OUSS) Organic synthesis in the 21st century, and why fish is always served with a slice of lemon
Nov 2018 Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull Astrophysics
(OUSS) The death of planet Earth
Nov 2018 Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, the Biofuturist Biology
(OUSS) How biology became the next great software revolution
Nov 2018 Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust Psychiatry
(OUSS) Developing effective psychological treatments
Oct 2018 Prof Richard Barker, New Medicine Partners Biomedical sciences
(OUSS) Bioscience: lost in translation?
Oct 2018 Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford University Economics
(OUSS) Prediction in economics and elsewhere
Oct 2018 Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems Engineering
(OUSS) Will fusion reactors power space rockets?
May 2018 Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University Biology
(OUSS) How light affects our internal body clocks
May 2018 Prof Steve Goldup, University of Southampton Chemistry
(OUSS) Nanoscale machinery: from molecular machines to molecular asymmetry
Apr 2018 Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences Gerontology
(OUSS) The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: gene and cell therapies to cure ageing
Mar 2018 Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University Physics
(OUSS) Physical eschatology: what can we say about the far future?
Feb 2018 Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency Engineering
(OUSS) Humans in space: what’s next?
Feb 2018 Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University Biology
(OUSS) Oxygen tension regulates hepatitis virus replication & pathology
Feb 2018 Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal Science
(OUSS) The many defects in how we publish science
Feb 2018 TOAD distillery
(OUSS) Field trip
Jan 2018 Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca Biopharmaceutics
(OUSS) A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down?
Jan 2018 Dr Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire Chemistry
(OUSS) Recent changes in drug scenarios and cognitive enhancers
Nov 2017 Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd Mathematics
(OUSS) Juggling: theory and practice
Oct 2017 Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University Psychology
(OUSS) Using mathematics to understand the world
Oct 2017 Prof Wade Allison, Oxford University Physics
(OUSS) Trust, energy, and the environment – nuclear, please, 24/7!
2016 Cotton & Wilkinson student seminar series Chemistry
A series of 18 talks over 9 evenings, on the chemistry of transition metal elements
May 2013 Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University Biology
(OUSS) Cancer Networks
May 2013 Prof Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey Zoology
(OUSS) Life in the frozen state
May 2013 Dr June McCombie MBE, Nottingham University Science
Women's Lecture: Making the invisible visible
May 2013 Prof Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield Chemistry
(OUSS) Big bad pharma
Apr 2013 Prof Chris Cooper, University of Essex Biochemistry
(OUSS) The science behind drugs and doping in sport
Feb 2013 Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University Science
(OUSS) Unpredictability and change in science and technology
Feb 2013 Prof Gero Miesenböck, Oxford University Neuroscience
(OUSS) Optogenetics in neuroscience
Feb 2013 Gary Taubes (author),
Prof Philip James, World Obesity Federation,
Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University
Biology
(OUSS) Sloth, gluttony, or hormones? This house believes that hormones, not calories, make us fat (debate)
Feb 2013 Prof Rob Stockman, Nottingham University Chemistry
(OUSS) From chemical weapons to chemotherapy
Feb 2013 Prof Hugh Hunt, Cambridge University Mathematics
(OUSS) Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and spinning things
Jan 2013 Neuroskeptic (blogger) Neuroscience
(OUSS) Getting the brain wrong
Jan 2013 Prof Steve Jones, UCL Biology
(OUSS) The joy of sects: rewriting the Bible as a scientific textbook
Jan 2013 Jessica Richman, uBiome Genetics
(OUSS) uBiome: Sequencing the human microbiome through citizen science
Nov 2012 Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Cambridge University Genetics
(OUSS) The dark matter of genetics
Nov 2012 Dr Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School Psychology
(OUSS) Reading the body language of engagement
Nov 2012 Dr Mark Oxborrow, National Physical Laboratory Physics
(OUSS) Maser (microwave laser) at room temperature for the first time
Oct 2012 Lord Ronald Oxburgh, House of Lords Technology
(OUSS) Energy for all – but from where?
Oct 2012 Mark Henderson, Wellcome Trust
George Monbiot, The Guardian
Tracy Brown, Sense About Science
Physics
(OUSS) The Geek Manifesto (panel discussion)
Oct 2012 Prof Ian Fleming, Cambridge University Chemistry
(OUSS) Short cuts: anecdotes from a research career
Oct 2012 Prof Kieran Clarke, Oxford University Biochemistry
(OUSS) A new fuel source for a human body
Jun 2012 Chemistry at the Garden Chemistry
Oxford Botanic Garden: audio trail and scientific poster session
Jun 2012 Manchester Girl Geeks @ MOSI Mathematics
Mathematical origami
Jun 2012 Manchester Girl Geeks @ Manchester Mela Mathematics
Mathematical origami
May 2012 Prof David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs Pharmacology
(OUSS) How the current drug laws hold back science
May 2012 Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory Physics
(OUSS) Confounding colour curiosities: the science of seeing colour
May 2012 Prof Marian Dawkins, Oxford University Zoology
(OUSS) Optical flow, collective behaviour, and animal welfare
May 2012 Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University Botany/chemistry
(OUSS) The botanic garden: your modern medicine cabinet
Apr 2012 Dr Aubrey de Grey, SENS
Prof Colin Blakemore, Oxford University
Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University
Gerontology
(OUSS) This house wants to defeat ageing entirely (debate)
Mar 2012 Dr Mark Briffa, Plymouth University Zoology
(OUSS) Personality – and a bit of aggression – in marine invertebrates
Mar 2012 Oxfordshire Science Festival
One-day festival
Feb 2012 Prof Kevin Warwick, Reading University Robotics
(OUSS) Human enhancement: a user’s guide
Feb 2012 Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge University Biology
(OUSS) You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes
Feb 2012 Prof Alison Smith, Cambridge University Bioengineering
(OUSS) Algal biofuels: prospects for green (and brown and red) energy
Feb 2012 Dr Susanne Shultz, Oxford University Zoology
(OUSS) Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question
Feb 2012 Dr Peter Wothers, Cambridge University Chemistry
(OUSS) Gods, devils, and alcohol: their influence in chemical nomenclature
Jan 2012 Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Laboratory Metrology
(OUSS) How do you really know what the temperature is?
Jan 2012 Prof Steve Jones, UCL Biology
(OUSS) Incest and folk dancing: two things to avoid
Jan 2012 Oxford Climate Forum
Two-day conference
Nov 2011 Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University Astrophysics
(OUSS) Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence
Nov 2011 Royal Institution Science Societies' Dinner
Cross-society dinner, with guests of honour Prof Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Roland Jackson, Prof Kevin Warwick, and Prince Edward
Nov 2011 Mark Lynas Science
(OUSS) Why scientists should take over the world
Nov 2011 Rev Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks Chemistry
(OUSS) Fireworks: Principles and Practice
Oct 2011 Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory Physics
(OUSS) Energy harvesting: raiders of the lost amp
Oct 2011 Dr Chris Faulkes, QMUL Zoology
(OUSS) Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective
Oct 2011 Dr Andrew Pontzen, Oxford University Physics
(OUSS) What is cold dark matter? And is it heating up?
Mar 2010 Oxfordshire Science Festival
One-day festival

Conferences Attended

A list of conferences I've attended, and those I've registered for soon.
 = invited speaker
 = organizer

Conference title Date Location
Journées de Chimie Organique JCO Oct 2025 Paris, France
Biotech Outsourcing Solutions Nov 2024 Manchester, UK
RSC BMCS-CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation Nov 2024 Online
ChemTalks Sep 2024 Basel, Switzerland
RSC BMCS-CICAG AI in Chemistry Sep 2024 Cambridge, UK
ACS National Meeting (Denver) Aug 2024 Online
EuChemS Chemistry Congress Jul 2024 Dublin, Ireland
Future Labs Live Jun 2024 Online
2nd RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postdoctoral Symposium May 2024 Macclesfield, UK
CAMS: The State of Data Analytics Mar 2024 Cambridge, UK
UK National Retrosynthesis Competition Mar 2024 London, UK
#RSCPoster Mar 2024 Online
SCI Big Data for Chemistry Feb 2024 London, UK
New Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry Nov 2023 London, UK
2nd Automated Intelligent Chemistry Nov 2023 London, UK
ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 Oct 2023 Liverpool, UK
20/15 Visioneers Better to Best ELN Practices Sep 2023 Online
ILMAC Sep 2023 Basel, Switzerland
IUPAC CHAINS Aug 2023 The Hague, Netherlands
Gordon Research Conference: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology Jul 2023 New London, NH, USA
Gordon Research Seminar: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology Jul 2023 New London, NH, USA
RICT Intl Conference on Medicinal Chemistry Jul 2023 Lille, France
Future Labs Live May 2023 Basel, Switzerland
25th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium May 2023 Grasmere, UK
Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress Apr 2023 London, UK
10th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition Mar 2023 Online
Automated Synthesis Forum Nov 2022 Macclesfield, UK
The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology Nov 2022 London, UK
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, & Lab Automation Conference Nov 2022 Online
Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Synthesis Symposium Sep 2022 Toledo, Spain
Leverhulme Research Centre Biennial Symposium Sep 2022 Liverpool, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium Sep 2022 Nottingham, UK
SmartLabs & Pharma Data Sep 2022 London, UK
ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry Jul 2022 Urbino, Italy
CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways Jun 2022 Online
EWOC Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry 2022 Jun 2022 Online
High-Throughput Experimentation Summit Jun 2022 Basel, Switzerland
Future Labs Live Jun 2022 Basel, Switzerland
Pharmaceutical Mobile Robotics Apr 2022 London, UK
UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022 Mar 2022 Online
AI 4 Scientific Discovery Conference Mar 2022 Southampton, UK
1st Cambridge AI in Drug Discovery Conference Feb 2022 Online
Emerging Technologies in Organic Synthesis ETOC Feb 2022 Online
Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference Dec 2021 Leeds, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting: Hot topics in organic chemistry Dec 2021 London, UK
5th SCS-Syngenta Symposium 2021 Nov 2021 Online
FROST8 conference on flow chemistry Nov 2021 Budapest, Hungary
Automated Synthesis Forum Nov 2021 Online
20/15 Visioneers: World's first cloud lab, HTE and lab automation oriented virtual conference Oct 2021 Online
CatSci 10-year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development Oct 2021 Online
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium Oct 2021 Online
4th BMCS-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Sep 2021 Online
Applied Catalysis Group & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting 2021 Sep 2021 Online
VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data-Science-Assisted Synthesis Jul 2021 Online
Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2021 Jun 2021 Online
Scientific Update: Catalysis in the Fine Chemical Industry Jun 2021 Online
European Robotics Forum Apr 2021 Online
ACS National Meeting Apr 2021 Online
UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021 Mar 2021 Online
Organic Process Research & Development: Scientific Update Dec 2020 Online
SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry Oct 2020 Online
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium Sep 2020 Online
Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2020 Aug 2020 Online
Solvents & solvent selection in continuous manufacturing training course: Scientific Update Jul 2020 Online
Flow chemistry & continuous processing: Scientific Update May 2020 Online
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium Feb 2020 Oxford, UK
Chemical development & scaleup in the fine chemical & pharmaceutical industries training course: Scientific Update Jan 2020 Pfizer, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January Meeting 2020 Jan 2020 London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting 2019 Dec 2019 London, UK
UK Automated Synthesis Forum 2019 Nov 2019 Glasgow, UK
New Synthetic Methods II Oct 2019 London, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium Sep 2019 Macclesfield, UK
International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry Jul 2019 Cambridge, UK
ICIQ PhD Day Jun 2019 Tarragona, Spain
24th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium May 2019 Grasmere, UK
Nottingham Women in Chemistry Mar 2019 Nottingham, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting Jan 2019 London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting Dec 2018 London, UK
Challenges in Catalysis VI Nov 2018 London, UK
Young Chemist in Industry Nov 2018 Stevenage, UK
BOSS XVI Jul 2018 Brussels, Belgium
Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference Jun 2018 Oxford, UK
RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Jun 2018 London, UK
Bristol Synthesis Meeting Apr 2018 Bristol, UK
Dial-A-Molecule: Predicting Reaction Outcomes Mar 2018 Cambridge, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting Jan 2018 London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting Dec 2017 London, UK
Dial-A-Molecule: Exploring 3D Space Nov 2017 York, UK
International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry Jul 2017 Oxford, UK
Technology Ventures Conference: Impact of AI Jun 2017 Cambridge, UK
OrgSyn 50 Feb 2017 Manchester, UK
UIUC Allerton Conference Nov 2016 Champaign, IL, USA
UIUC Allerton Conference Nov 2015 Champaign, IL, USA
ACS National Meeting Aug 2015 Boston, MA, USA
International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry Jul 2015 Cambridge, UK
Page Lectures Jul 2015 Huddersfield, UK
OMCOS 18 Jun 2015 Sitges, Spain
RSC North West Organic Division Meeting May 2015 Liverpool, UK
UIUC Allerton Conference Nov 2014 Champaign, IL, USA
UIUC Allerton Conference Nov 2013 Champaign, IL, USA
ACS National Meeting Sep 2013 Indianapolis, IN, USA
Bristol Synthesis Meeting Apr 2013 Bristol, UK
ASE Annual Conference Jan 2012 Liverpool, UK
National Union of Students LGBT Conference May 2010 Liverpool, UK

Media Appearances – Nessa Carson

For articles I've written, click here.

Is the academic social networking site ResearchGate still relevant? Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Chemical & Engineering News

Jan 2024

Creating the Lab of the Future: What does it entail? Luigi da Vià, News-Medical.net

May 2023

AI4SD Conference Report 2022 Wendy Warr, Samantha Kanza, Jeremy G Frey, Mahesan Niranjan
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/AI3SD0233

Nov 2022

Humans of AI3SD: Interview with Nessa Carson – Michelle Pauli, EPSRC AI3SD Network
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/AI3SD0233

Aug 2022

Chemists on Social Media – Rachel Brazil, Chemistry World

Feb 2022

Electrochemistry, Lots of Electrochemistry – Derek Lowe, In the Pipeline

Aug 2021

Cats, Chemistry, & Code with Nessa Carson Henry Powell-Davies & Medina Afandiyeva, ChemConvos podcast

Jul 2021

RSC membership campaign – Royal Society of Chemistry

Apr 2021

High-throughput & robots with Nessa Carson – Chemistry Cayk Online Podcast

Jun 2020

Nessa Carson – Chemistry with ROBOTS! – Paul Orange, HEL Modern Chemistry podcast

Feb 2020

ROBOTS vs HUMANS with Nessa Carson – Alex Goldberg & Chemjobber, The Periodic Bagel podcast

Dec 2019

More teams, more diversity: The Royal Society of Chemistry overhauls its awards Megha Satyanarayana, Chemical & Engineering News

Dec 2019

Young UK chemists question what they are worth – Vanessa Zainzinger, Chemical & Engineering News

Dec 2019

Nature Chemistry: Elementary Women – Claire Murray. Nature Chem., 2019, 11, 602–604
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0284-z

Jul 2019

AI4SD Conference Report 2022 Wendy Warr, Samantha Kanza, Jeremy G Frey, Mahesan Niranjan.
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/AI3SD0233

Nov 2022

C&EN: the Secret Silos of #chemtwitter – Paulette Vincent-Ruz & Dorea Reeser, Chemical & Engineering News

Aug 2019

Interview: Fluoromodafinil, with Nessa Carson – Cognitive Improvement blog

Aug 2018

Three Monthses – Lucy Rogers, HackSpace

Aug 2018

Pride in STEM city‑wide advertising campaign – Pride in London

Jun 2018

Doctor tweet love – Matt Kitching, Chemistry World

Dec 2017

25 Chemists you should follow on Twitter – Dorea Reeser, Chemical & Engineering News

Nov 2017

What's the best way to show a new chemical reaction's scope? – Tien Nguyen, Chemical & Engineering News

Sep 2017

Quotable Chemistry – Chemistry World blog

Sep 2015

West Side Stories – Sarah Houlton, Chemistry World

Jul 2014

Transatlantic Tales: Homeward Bound – Nature Chemistry blog

Sep 2012

Transatlantic Tales: School Days – Nature Chemistry blog

Aug 2012

Transatlantic Tales: The PhD Question – Nature Chemistry blog

Jul 2012

Transatlantic Tales: An Introduction – Nature Chemistry blog

Jul 2012

Scientific role model interview – Oxfordshire Science Festival

Feb 2012