Dr Izabela Jurewicz

University of Surrey

Dr Izabela Jurewicz is Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Material Development Ltd., a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, and a Senior Lecturer in Soft Matter Physics at the University of Surrey. She specialises in advanced functional materials, leading the Interdisciplinary Research on Interface Structures (IRIS) Group, with work spanning nanomaterial self‑assembly to polymeric photonic crystal-based colorimetric sensing technologies. She has published over 40 peer‑reviewed papers with multiple patents. Her research has received extensive international recognition and drives high‑impact innovation across academia and industry.

Prof Rachel Evans

University of Cambridge