Amanda Evans's Biography

Amanda Evans, Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton

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 appointment as a Visiting Professorship at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, prior to accepting her current post. Dr. Evans recently joined California State University Fullerton as an Assistant Professor in Bio-Organic Chemistry. Her research group uses both batch and continuous processing/bioprocessing approaches for making molecules and her research interests are diverse as she has performed postdoctoral research in the fields of microfluidic synthesis, asymmetric prebiotic chemistry, 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.