Wendy Flavell

Wendy Ruth Flavell (born 1 September 1961)

Education and early life Flavell was born in Bilston to Maurice and June Flavell. She was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School In 1990 Flavell joined the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the Department of Chemistry. She was part of the strategy group that designed the 4GLS at Daresbury Laboratory in 2004. She is a member of the University of Manchester Living Lab.

Flavell is interested in using nanoparticles and Quantum dots for efficient fuel cells and new materials for photovoltaics. She works on scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), X-ray absorption near edge structure (NEXAFS) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure. She has studied titanium dioxide and Tin(IV) Oxide. She is interested in the surface reactivity of nanocrystals and dynamics of charge carriers in solar cells. She attempts to understand how solar cells age at the surface, in efforts to design passivation strategies. Flavell demonstrated that cadmium telluride quantum dots can have near unity quantum yields. In 2014 she served as deputy chair of the physics panel of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Public engagement In 2011 Flavell's research group demonstrated their work on quantum dots at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition. She has delivered a Pint of Science talk and discussed the photon on In Our Time in 2015.