Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero

Rachel was born and grew up in Havana, Cuba. She studied Chemistry at the University of Havana. She did her PhD within a collaborative program between the University of Havana and the Autonomous University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Luis Alberto Montero and Prof. José Manuel García de la Vega. From 2010 to 2013, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Mario Barbatti at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) on the topic of excited states and non-adiabatic dynamics. In October 2013, she joined the group of Prof. Aron Walsh at the University of Bath (UK) to work on metastable materials and water splitting. She joined the Chemistry department at Queen Mary University of London as a Lecturer in January 2015. In September 2019, she was promoted to Senior Lecturer. In May 2023, Rachel moved to the Chemistry Department at University College London (UCL) as an Associate Professor in Computational Chemistry.