Dr Rebecca Walker

About

Email Addressrebecca.walker@abdn.ac.ukOffice Address G28 Meston BuildingOld Aberdeen CampusMeston Walk AB24 3UEView on Map School/DepartmentSchool of Natural and Computing Sciences TwitterResearchGateLinkedin Biography Pronouns: She/Her. Dr Rebecca Walker graduated with a first class honours MChem degree from the University of Aberdeen and was the recipient of a number of prizes including the City of Aberdeen Quincentenary Prize for academic merit and the William Rudolph Center Medal for Most Distinguished Chemistry Graduate of 2015. She obtained a prestigious Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland PhD Scholarship to continue studying at Aberdeen under the supervision of Professors Corrie Imrie and John Storey, and published her doctoral Thesis "Structure-Property Relationships, C

Education

• MChem Chemistry 2015 - University of Aberdeen
• PhD Chemistry 2019 - University of Aberdeen

Selected publications

• Investigating room temperature ferroelectric nematogens and their structure-property relationships 2026 - PublishedTufaha, N., Stepanafas, G., Cruickshank, E., Pociecha, D., Gorecka, E., Storey, J. M. D., Walker, R., Imrie, C. T. Nature Communications, vol. 17, 2965Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69484-z[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/241ccdc0-040a-418d-9e45-9ef567bcf119/download
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69484-z
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/241ccdc0-040a-418d-9e45-9ef567bcf119/download
• The effect of thioester linkages on the stability of the ferroelectric nematic phase 2026 - PublishedStepanafas, G., Brown, S., Cruickshank, E., Strachan, G. J., Storey, J. M., Imrie, C., Walker, R. Soft matter, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1994-2003Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SM01206F[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/f3158d5d-579d-488e-b05f-7e061c48ec80/download
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SM01206F
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/f3158d5d-579d-488e-b05f-7e061c48ec80/download
• Liquid crystal tetramers and spontaneous chirality: the heliconical twist-bend nematic phase 2026 - PublishedForsyth, E., Majewska, M. M., Walker, R., Pociecha, D., Gorecka, E., Storey, J. M., Imrie, C. T. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 2888-2901Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc03351a[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/7f89bc35-cd82-490e-8006-df2d86e4f715/download
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc03351a
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/7f89bc35-cd82-490e-8006-df2d86e4f715/download
• Distinguishing liquid crystalline nematic variants by machine learning 2026 - PublishedQuinn, A. R., Walker, R., Tufaha, N., Storey, J. M., Imrie, C. T., Dierking, I. Soft matter, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 95-108Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d5sm01070e[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b231edfb-b81a-45f6-a724-34caabec1166/download[ONLINE] View publication in Scopus