Dr Claudia Tait

Claudia is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Early Career Fellow in Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford.

Claudia studied Chemistry at the University of Padova in Italy, first learning about EPR spectroscopy in Marilena Di Valentin's group. 
She then joined Christiane Timmel's group at the University of Oxford for her DPhil, working on the characterisation of artificial supramolecular porphyrin structures and biological systems using a series of advanced pulse EPR techniques.

After her DPhil, Claudia joined Stefan Stoll's group at the University of Washington in Seattle to focus more on EPR method development and simulation. She then moved to the Freie Universität Berlin to join the groups of Jan Behrends and Robert Bittl as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, where she applied EPR to the investigation of materials for organic electronics.

Claudia returned to Oxford to start her independent research group as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, where her work now focuses on leveraging EPR spectroscopy to gain an improved understanding of spins and spin-dependent processes in materials and devices for energy conversion.

Awards and Prizes

• Bruker Thesis Prize, awarded by the ESR group of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Ulderico Segre Prize, awarded by the Italian Electron Spin Resonance Group (GIRSE)
• 2016 John Weil Young Investigator Award of the International EPR Society