Beatrice Collins

Beatrice was born in 1986 and grew up in the West Country in a village just outside Bristol. She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and was awarded an MSci in 2009. She then stayed at Cambridge to undertake PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Matthew Gaunt in the field of transition metal catalysis. In 2014 Beatrice moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she spent two years undertaking postdoctoral research with Professor Ben Feringa in the field of molecular switches and motors, followed by further postdoctoral research in the group of Professor Varinder Aggarwal FRS at the University of Bristol.

In 2018 Beatrice was awarded a University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society to establish her own independent career at the University of Bristol where her research focuses on using modern synthetic methodologies to control motion at the molecular level.