Professor Annette Taylor
BSc, PhD, MRSC, FHEA
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Visiting academic
Director of Student Experience
Athena Swan Champion
Chair of Opportunities Committee
- Profile
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I obtained a BSc and PhD from Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds and was later RCUK Fellow, then Senior Lecturer, before taking a position in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2014. During my time at Leeds I also held Visiting Researcher positions with collaborators in the USA. My research involves combining chemical kinetics and mass transport with applications in materials science and biological processes.
I have over 50 publications, including in Science and PRL, and have written News and Views articles for Nature and Nature Chemistry. I have obtained research funding from the EPSRC, EU FP7 and Innovate UK as well as funding for teaching and outreach related projects from HESTEM and the RSC. I'm a member of the management committee of the COST action on Emergence and Evolution in Complex Chemical Systems and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (American Institute of Physics). In 2016, I was elected Chair of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems. I'm also a member of the EPSRC peer review college and an international grant reviewer for many organisations, including the ERC.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Design of oscillatory dynamics in numerical simulations of compartment-based enzyme systems. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(12).
- A novel high-throughput ex vivo ovine skin wound model for testing emerging antibiotics. Journal of Visualized Experiments(187). View this article in WRRO
- Coupling between nucleation and chemical reactions and its importance in understanding the oxidation of iodine by hydrogen peroxide.. Phys Chem Chem Phys.
- Reaction-diffusion hydrogels from urease enzyme particles for patterned coatings. Communications Chemistry, 4(1).
- Editorial: Advances in oscillating reactions. Frontiers in Chemistry, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- Periodic nucleation of calcium phosphate in a stirred biocatalytic reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(7), 2823-2828. View this article in WRRO
- Modelling bacteria-inspired dynamics with networks of interacting chemicals. Life, 9(3). View this article in WRRO
- Charting a course for chemistry. Nature Chemistry, 11(4), 286-294.
- Influence of reaction-induced convection on quorum sensing in enzyme-loaded agarose beads. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 29(3), 033130-033130.
- Towards feedback-controlled nanomedicines for smart, adaptive delivery. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 244(4), 283-293.
- Exploitation of Feedback in Enzyme-catalysed Reactions. Israel Journal of Chemistry. View this article in WRRO
- Switches induced by quorum sensing in a model of enzyme-loaded microparticles. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 15(140). View this article in WRRO
- Correction to: Kinetics of the urea–urease clock reaction with urease immobilized in hydrogel beads. Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, 123(1), 187-187.
- Kinetics of the urea–urease clock reaction with urease immobilized in hydrogel beads. Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, 123(1), 177-185. View this article in WRRO
- Ester hydrolysis: Conditions for acid autocatalysis and a kinetic switch. Tetrahedron, 73(33), 5018-5022. View this article in WRRO
- Systems chemistry. Chem. Soc. Rev., 46(9), 2543-2554.
- Temporal control of gelation and polymerization fronts driven by an autocatalytic enzyme reaction. Angewandte Chemie, 128(6), 2167-2171. View this article in WRRO
- Chemistry: Small molecular replicators go organic. Nature, 537(7622), 627-628.
- Temporal Control of Gelation and Polymerization Fronts Driven by an Autocatalytic Enzyme Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55(6), 2127-2131. View this article in WRRO
- Insights into collective cell behaviour from populations of coupled chemical oscillators. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(31), 20047-20055. View this article in WRRO
- Helical Turing patterns in the Lengyel-Epstein model in thin cylindrical layers. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25(6), 064308-064308. View this article in WRRO
- Role of Differential Transport in an Oscillatory Enzyme Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118(23), 6092-6097.
- Correction. Biophysical Journal, 106(7), 1548-1548.
- Motion and Interaction of Aspirin Crystals at Aqueous–Air Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117(43), 13572-13577.
- Chemical patterns in translating vortices: Inter- and intra-cellular mixing effects. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 23(2), 023115-023115.
- Characterising stationary and translating vortex flow using magnetic resonance. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 99(6), 68001-68001.
- Reduction waves in the two-variable Oregonator model for the BZ reaction. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 241(16), 1336-1343.
- pH Wave-Front Propagation in the Urea-Urease Reaction. Biophysical Journal, 103(3), 610-615.
- Phase Clusters in Large Populations of Chemical Oscillators. Angewandte Chemie, 123(43), 10343-10346.
- Phase Clusters in Large Populations of Chemical Oscillators. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50(43), 10161-10164.
- Low frequency temperature forcing of chemical oscillations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(26), 12321-12321.
- Complex organizing centers in groups of oscillatory particles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(39), 17802-17802.
- Base-Catalyzed Feedback in the Urea−Urease Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(44), 14059-14063.
- Time-lapse thiol-acrylate polymerization using a pH clock reaction. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 48(13), 2955-2959.
- Dynamical quorum sensing and synchronization in collections of excitable and oscillatory catalytic particles. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 239(11), 785-790.
- A path to patterns. Nature Chemistry, 1(5), 340-341.
- Dynamical Quorum Sensing and Synchronization in Large Populations of Chemical Oscillators. Science, 323(5914), 614-617.
- Nonlinear PH responsive chemomechanical devices. American Chemical Society, Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, 49(1), 804.
- Acid Autocatalysis and Front Propagation in Water-in-Oil Microemulsions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(7), 2499-2505.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of flow distributed oscillations in a packed bed reactor. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 25(4), 551-552.
- An Organic-Based pH Oscillator. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111(4), 549-551.
- Collective Behavior of a Population of Chemically Coupled Oscillators. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(20), 10170-10176.
- A novel route to pH oscillators. Chemical Physics Letters, 417(1-3), 39-42.
- Loss of coherence in a population of diffusively coupled oscillators. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 125(22), 224708-224708.
- The Tris(2,2'-Bipyridyl)Ruthenium-Catalysed Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction. Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism, 31(2), 59-115.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of chemical waves in porous media. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 16(3), 037103-037103.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Flow-Distributed Oscillations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109(37), 8306-8313.
- Complex Behavior in the Formaldehyde−Sulfite Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109(1), 283-288.
- Propagation of chemical waves across inexcitable gaps. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5(18), 3928-3928.
- Comment on ‘Chemical oscillations induced by flow transports’ [J. Wang, Chem. Phys. Lett. 360 (2002) 289–293]. Chemical Physics Letters, 371(5-6), 757-759.
- Mechanism and Phenomenology of an Oscillating Chemical Reaction. ChemInform, 34(12).
- CHEMICAL PATTERNS IN SIMPLE FLOW SYSTEMS. Advances in Complex Systems, 06(01), 155-162.
- Mechanism and Phenomenology of an Oscillating Chemical Reaction. Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism, 27(4), 247-326.
- Flow-driven instabilities in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: Modelling and experiments. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3(6), 957-964.
- Wave initiation in the ferroin-catalysed Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction with visible light. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2(3), 413-416.
- Complex chemical reactions — A review. Chemical Engineering Science, 55(2), 209-215.
- Analysis of reaction–diffusion waves in the ferroin-catalysed Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1(19), 4595-4599.
- Scroll waves in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: exploitation of O2-effect on the ferroin-catalysed system. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1(5), 807-811.
- Effect of oxygen on wave propagation in the ferroin-catalysed Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 94(8), 1029-1033.
- Reaction-diffusion waves Homogeneous and inhomogeneous effects. Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 93(20), 3733-3736.
- On the use of modelling antagonistic enzymes to aid in temporal programming of pH and PVA–borate gelation. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.
- Changing the paradigm in modelling the Bray–Liebhafsky oscillatory chemical reaction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
- A microfluidic double emulsion platform for spatiotemporal control of pH and particle synthesis. Lab on a Chip.
- Influence of Oxygen on Chemoconvective Patterns in the Iodine Clock Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
- Collective Behavior of Urease pH Clocks in Nano- and Microvesicles Controlled by Fast Ammonia Transport. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1979-1984.
- Inward propagating chemical waves in Taylor vortices. Physical Review E, 81(4).
- Emergence of Collective Behavior in Groups of Excitable Catalyst-Loaded Particles: Spatiotemporal Dynamical Quorum Sensing. Physical Review Letters, 102(15).
- Clusters and Switchers in Globally Coupled Photochemical Oscillators. Physical Review Letters, 100(21).
- pH oscillations and bistability in the methylene glycol–sulfite–gluconolactone reaction. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 9(28), 3711-3716.
- Spatiotemporal Networks in Addressable Excitable Media. Physical Review Letters, 95(3).
- Modelling wave propagation across a series of gaps. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 6(19), 4677-4681.
- Complex pattern development in a plug–flow reactor. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 4(22), 5640-5643.
- A bistable switch in pH in urease-loaded alginate beads. Chem. Commun., 50(76), 11107-11109.
Chapters
- From Clocks to Synchrony: The Design of Bioinspired Self‐Regulation in Chemical Systems, Out‐of‐Equilibrium (Supra)molecular Systems and Materials (pp. 61-90).
- Modelling Approach to Enzymatic pH Oscillators in Giant Lipid Vesicles, Advances in Bionanomaterials (pp. 63-74). Springer International Publishing
- QUORUM SENSING AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN POPULATIONS OF COUPLED CHEMICAL OSCILLATORS, Engineering of Chemical Complexity (pp. 261-278). WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Conference proceedings papers
- MODELLING OF NON-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS: REACTION NETWORKS FOR BIOINSPIRED BEHAVIOUR. Computational Modeling: From Chemistry to Materials to Biology
- Engineering Enzyme-Driven Dynamic Behaviour in Lipid Vesicles (pp 197-208)
- Phase clustering in globally coupled photochemical oscillators. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 165(1) (pp 137-149)
Software / Code
Datasets
Other
- Periodic Nucleation of Calcium Phosphate in a Stirred Biocatalytic Reaction. Angewandte Chemie, 132(7), 2845-2850.
- Design of oscillatory dynamics in numerical simulations of compartment-based enzyme systems. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(12).