Agi Brandt-Talbot

Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London and leads the Sustainable Carbon Solutions research team.

She has authored 35 scientific articles with more than 5000 citations and 5 patents. Dr Brandt-Talbot is interested in creating bio-derived materials and chemicals from sustainable biomass and the application of novel tailor-made solvents for more sustainable use of carbon in our economy.

Dr Brandt-Talbot was awarded Imperial's President's Award of Excellence for Outstanding Early Career Researcher in 2015, the Department of Chemical Engineering's Sir William Wakeham Award in 2016, and a 2017 Imperial College Research Fellowship which she took up in the Department of Chemistry. She is co-founder and a director of start-up company Lixea.

Dr Brandt-Talbot received a BSc and an MSc from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. She joined Imperial College for her PhD studies in the Department of Chemistry and Life Sciences and was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She has also been the Business Manager of start-up company Econic Technologies. She is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and the Treasurer of the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group.