Anna Slater

Anna Grace Slater ( Phillips)

Career In 2013 Slater joined the group of Andy Cooper at the University of Liverpool, where she worked on porous organic cages. She is interested in supramolecular chemistry. In 2015 she published "Function-led Design of New Porous Materials" in Science. She was shortlisted in the 2016 Women of the Future awards in the science category.

In 2016 she was appointed an EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. She was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2021, senior lecturer in 2021/22 and to a personal chair in 2022. She took part in the Sci Annual Review Meeting, talking about new concepts in organic synthesis.

Slater was co-chair of the UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA). Slater led a project looking at how researchers took maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave. In 2016 she discussed barriers to mothers from pursuing academia.

In 2017, Slater took an exhibit titled "No Assembly Required" to a special joint Royal Society/Science Museum "Lates", part of a series of events open to adult members of the public that typically attracts over 4000 people. As part of the exhibit, Slater worked with Senior Lecturer and science poet Sam Illingworth to produce a series of poems written by the visitors using language from scientific papers in the field.

She is an Associate Editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.

She is a former vice-chair, and a member of the advisory board, of WISC (Women in Supramolecular Chemistry), a group "supporting women and those who are marginalised to progress within supramolecular chemistry through creating a sense of community and kinship" and is one of the co-authors of the 2022 book Women in Supramolecular Chemistry: Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM (Policy Press: ).

Personal life Slater has two children, and has epilepsy. Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (2020) Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society (2016)