Hazel Assender

Education Assender studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990. In 1990, Assender started her PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and completed her thesis on "Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers" in 1994.

Research and career

After two years as a post doctoral researcher, deposition, gas barriers, photovoltaics, and polymer electronics (including transistors and circuits). Assender has worked 80% full-time since her second child was born. She spoke at the 2015 University of Cambridge "Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Company forum", a highlight of the academic UK materials science calendar, to highlight roll-to-roll vacuum processing to create multi-layer polymer electronic thin films.

Assender continues to collaborate across the UK and is currently a member of the Centre for Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (with colleagues from Oxford, Imperial, and Queen Mary University London). Assender's research is inspired by her desire to solve industrial challenges.