Niamh received her undergraduate degree and PhD in chemistry from Trinity College Dublin, studying the structural and optical properties of conjugated polymer materials. During her PhD Niamh received a Fulbright student award to further examine conjugated polymer materials in the lab of Prof. Tim Swager at MIT, Boston. Niamh is currently working as a Research Associate in the Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing group at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge where she is examining mechanochemical processes during fluid flow.