Laura Fisher
After completing a PhD at the University of Bath, UK, and a postdoc at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014 as a publishing editor. From 2016–2019, I was deputy editor for Soft Matter, Biomaterials Science, Polymer Chemistry, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering and Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, and I am now executive editor for RSC Advances. My job involves journal strategy, marketing, and visibility, and I spend a lot of time working with our board members and associate editors and promoting RSC Advances at conferences. I also really enjoy scientific writing, and take the opportunity to contribute research articles and book reviews to Chemistry World whenever I can.
ReviewIce: Tales from a Disappearing World
What is it like to do research in a remote part of Greenland
ReviewWritten in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
A forensic anthropology pageturner filled with cases ranging from historic excavations to recent murder investigations
PodcastWritten in Bone: Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind by Sue Black – Book club
From the horrific to the absurd, forensic anthropologist Sue Black’s new book is a true pageturner
ReviewThe Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
ReviewThe Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
Adam Rutherford sets out to explain what it is that sets us apart from other animals
ReviewSuperhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental & Physical Ability
Meet the people at the peak of their powers
ReviewAll that remains: a life in death
Forensic anthropologist Sue black shares her fascination with anatomy and determination to help the loved ones of those that die
ReviewThe many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six
ResearchSolving the crystal maze
Workflow swaps gut feelings for data when designing continuous crystallisation processes
ResearchProduction line for gecko-inspired adhesive
Scientists devise manufacturing process for material that replicates a gecko’s remarkable stickiness
ReviewAdapt: how we can learn from nature’s strangest inventions
Laura Fisher reviews a tale of bio-inspired technology
ResearchFlash lithiation made safe
Micromixing enables protecting-group-free synthesis of organolithiums
ReviewWhich yet survive: impressions of friends, family and encounters
Memoirs of travelling chemist John Mills
ResearchSweat pore mimic unblocks perspiration theory
Microfluidic device shows that antiperspirants control sweating by forming pore-plugging aggregates with perspiration proteins
ReviewOutbreak! 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world
A tour of history’s most devastating diseases
ResearchAutomated fluorine radiolabelling moves closer to the clinic
New technique could improve tumour diagnosis and treatment
