Kori A. Andrea

Biography

Kori Andrea is a PhD candidate and NSERC Vanier scholar in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is supervised by Dr. Francesca Kerton and is working toward the development of catalysts capable of producing polycarbonates from CO2 and epoxides. She is also currently a visiting researcher (through a NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Weller. She completed her B.Sc. at Cape Breton University with a focus on functionalized nanoparticles for biomedical applications. During this time she was awarded a scholarship through the DAAD-RISE to pursue summer research in Dresden, Germany.