Sandrine Heutz

Sandrine Heutz is a Professor of Functional Molecular Materials, Head of the Department of Materials at Imperial College London and co-Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. She obtained her degree in Chemistry from the University of Liege, Belgium, and the University of Sherbrooke, Canada (1998). She then moved to the UK for her PhD at Imperial College London (2002), focusing on the growth and characterisation of molecular semiconductor thin films, followed by a post-doc investigating the application of molecular materials in photovoltaic cells. She was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship to develop molecular magnetic biosensors in 2004, at University College London (LCN and Physics), and then Imperial (Materials). Her group focuses on functional molecular films, nanostructures and their interfaces. She is particularly interested in vacuum-based fabrication techniques, characterising and exploiting the electronic spin of molecules in spintronic and quantum applications.