Talk2Lab Consultant & Leader – Professor Jeremy Frey – University of Southampton
Jeremy Frey is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the head of the Computational Systems Chemistry Group at the University of Southampton. Before working at Southampton, he obtained his DPhil on experimental and theoretical aspects of van der Waals complexes in the Physical Chemistry Labs, Oxford University under the supervision of Professor Brian Howard, followed by a NATO/EPSRC fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and University of California, with Professor Y. T. Lee. Jeremy is a Physical and Digital Chemist and has done a lot of research in open science and making improvements to the laboratory process both through the use of smart lab technology and electronic lab notebooks. He conceptualised the Talk2Lab system and built the team from the University of Southampton to create it.
Talk2Lab Consultant – Dr Samantha Kanza – University of Southampton
Samantha Kanza is a Research & Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She completed her MEng in Computer Science at the University of Southampton and then worked for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence for a year before returning to do an iPhD in Web Science (in Computer Science and Chemistry), which focused on Semantic Tagging of Scientific Documents and Electronic Lab Notebooks. She was awarded her PhD in April 2018. Samantha works in the interdisciplinary research area of applying computer science techniques to the scientific domain, specifically through the use of semantic web technologies and artificial intelligence. Her research includes looking at electronic lab notebooks and smart laboratories, to improve the digitization and knowledge management of the scientific record using semantic web technologies; and using IoT devices in the laboratory. She came to Talk2Lab through an interest of bringing the entire laboratory process into the 21st Century and is interested in seeing ways in which the use of IoT and voice in the lab can improve digitisation of scientific research and improve the working practices of scientists.
Talk2Lab Consultant – Dr Nicola Knight – University of Southampton
Nicola Knight is a Research & Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She completed her Masters of Chemistry (MChem) at the University of Southampton previously before undertaking a PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Frey. Her PhD focused on the interface between Chemistry and Computing with research in chemical modelling, remote experiments and the implementation of IoT technology in scientific research. Nicola’s current research interests are in the use of scientific data and computing in labs with particular interest in IoT technologies and streamlining the research process. She worked on some of the Talk2Lab project during her PhD research and is interested in how it can be developed further to integrate across many systems.