Dr Maxie Roessler’s research interests focus on EPR spectroscopy, redox processes and enzyme mechanisms. She runs an interdisciplinary group in the Department of Chemistry with a focus on using EPR spectroscopy in combination with electrochemistry to understand redox-based mechanisms. The group has an internationally recognised expertise in advanced EPR spectroscopy, especially in its application to biological problems such as understanding the redox-based mechanism of complex enzymes in respiration. Besides EPR spectroscopy, the group also has an expertise and interest in film electrochemistry, which they are combining with EPR spectroscopy to gain new insights into redox-based processes.
Maxie recently led a successful bid to the EPSRC to build PEPR, a Centre of Pulse EPR Spectroscopy at Imperial College, that will enable detailed insight into the structure and dynamics of paramagnetic compounds. Besides encompassing state-of-the-art pulse EPR instrumentation at X- and Q-band frequencies with the possibility of photoexcitation, PEPR supports an instrument and method development program to push spin sensitivity and enable novel pulse EPR experiments, as well as the combination of EPR with film electrochemistry.