Jacqueline Manina Cole is the Head of the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
18 Facts About Jacqui Cole
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Jacqui Cole's research considers the design of functional materials for optoelectronic applications.
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Jacqui Cole earned her first degree in chemistry at Durham University in 1994.
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Jacqui Cole remained there for her graduate studies, completing a PhD in 1997.
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Jacqui Cole was appointed a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kent, where she worked on the structure of amorphous materials.
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Jacqui Cole moved to the University of Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 2001.
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Jacqui Cole earned a second doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge in 2010.
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Jacqui Cole uses single-crystal X-ray crystallography to monitor the minute structural changes that occur during photo-excitation.
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Jacqui Cole is interested in dye-sensitized solar cells, nonlinear optics and optical data storage.
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Jacqui Cole worked on the design of organic fluorophores in an effort to improve the performance of the dye.
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Jacqui Cole investigated how data mining and Quantum chemical calculations could be used to predict which dyes might perform best.
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Jacqui Cole uses the EPSRC National Service for Computational Chemistry Software.
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Jacqui Cole has looked to use some of the dyes, in particular p-phenylene, as a laser.
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Whilst working at the Argonne National Laboratory, Jacqui Cole used in situ neutron reflectometry to study the interaction between the electrolytes and electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells.
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Jacqui Cole studied the origins of the nonlinear optics observed in N-methylurea, where solid-state intermolecular interactions and electron-donation from the methyl group separate it from the reference material urea.
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Jacqui Cole has investigated the molecular design rules of organometallic second-harmonic generation active materials.
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In 2018 Jacqui Cole was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow.
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Jacqui Cole has recently designed new databases of magnetic materials.