Amanda Evans's Biography

Amanda Evans, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Evans received her Ph.D. in organic synthesis from the University of Cambridge (Professor Steven Ley). She was subsequently appointed as a Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemistry at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and a RSC JWT Fellowship recipient, in addition to appointments as a Visiting Professorship at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis and as an Assistant Professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry at California State University Fullerton. Dr. Evans currently works at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Scientist (Physical Organic Chemistry) in the Biosciences Division. She utilizes both batch and continuous processing/bioprocessing approaches for making molecules and her research interests remain diverse, spanning microfluidic syntheses, continuous flow biocatalysis, high energy compounds, DNA nanotechnology, and polymeric materials. She possesses an extensive background in the generation of chiral substrates and the use of synthetic techniques in combination with other cross-disciplinary methods to construct and characterize molecular or macromolecular compounds with useful material and/or biological properties for interdisciplinary applications. She is particularly interested in establishing more innovative, scalable and sustainable enabling methodologies for creating chiral molecules.