Victoria Louise Bemmer Portrait

Dr Victoria Bemmer

Senior Research Fellow

Victoria.Bemmer@port.ac.uk

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Biological sciences Frontier Biomolecular Science Centre for Enzyme Innovation Institute of Life Sciences and Healthcare Institute of the Earth and Environment

Summary

I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI) within the school of Biological Sciences. In the Centre we are investigating solutions to environmental problems, with a particular focus on the enzymatic degradation of waste plastics.

My expertise lies the field of surface analysis, with a particular focus on scanning probe techniques. My main technique is Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and its associated advanced characterisation modes.  

My current work at the CEI is focussed on applying these surface analysis techniques to the enzyme- polymer systems of interest to elicit information on the reaction mechanism.

Biography

I graduated from Cardiff University in 2009 with an MChem (Hons) degree in Chemistry, and continued in the School of Chemistry to completed my PhD under the supervision of Professors Philip Davies and Michael Bowker, graduating in 2014.

I moved to Imperial College London in 2013, working as a Junior Research Officer in Materials Characterisation in the Department of Materials. I was promoted to Research Facility Manager in Atomic Force Microscopy in 2016.

I joined the 91腦瞳厙 in 2020 as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Enzyme Innovation.

Research interests

My research focuses on the application of surface analysis techniques (in particular Atomic Force Microscopy) to a range of systems, including

  • Enzymatic degradation of polymers
  • Refinement of RNA array technology

Research outputs

2024

Groseclose, T., Kober, E., Clark, M. A., Moore, B. R., Banerjee, S., Bemmer, V. L., Beckham, G. T., Pickford, A., Dale, T., Nguyen, H.

17 Sep 2024, In: ACS Catalysis. 14, 17p.

Research output: Article

Oliveira Pessoa, L., Cahill, A., Wuscher, L., Green, K. R., Bemmer, V. L., Lichtenstein, B.

1 Sep 2024, In: Faraday Discussions. 252, 12p.

Research output: Article

Kalra, S., Donnelly, A., Singh, N., Matthews, D., Del Villar-Guerra, R., Bemmer, V., Dominguez, C., Allcock, N., Cherny, D., Revyakin, A., Rusling, D. A.

15 May 2024, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146, 19, p. 1361713628, 12p.

Research output: Article

2023

Avilan, L., Lichtenstein, B., Koenig, G., Zahn, M., Allen, M. D., Oliveira Pessoa, L., Clark, M. A., Bemmer, V. L., Graham, R., Austin, H. P., Dominick, G., Johnson, C. W., Beckham, G. T., McGeehan, J., Pickford, A.

21 Apr 2023, In: ChemSusChem. 16, 8, 12p., e202202277

Research output: Article

2021

Hopkins, T. I., Bemmer, V. L., Franks, S., Dunlop, C., Hardy, K., Dunlop, I. E.

1 Oct 2021, In: Biomaterials. 277, 9p., 121099

Research output: Article

2020

RitzauReid, K. I., Spicer, C. D., Gelmi, A., Grigsby, C. L., Ponder, J. F., Bemmer, V., Creamer, A., Vilar, R., Serio, A., Stevens, M. M.

15 Oct 2020, In: Advanced Functional Materials. 30, 42, p. 1-11, 11p., 2003710

Research output: Article

Chen, S., Wu, L., Ren, J., Bemmer, V., Zajicek, R., Chen, R.

4 Jun 2020, In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12, 26, p. 28941-28951

Research output: Article

Bemmer, V., Bowker, M., Carter, J. H., Davies, P. R., Edwards, L. E., Harris, K. D. M., Hughes, C. E., Robinson, F., Morgan, D. J., Thomas, M. G.

26 Feb 2020, In: RSC Advances. 10, 14, p. 8444-8452

Research output: Article