Dr. Jennifer McManus leads the Experimental Soft Matter Group in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. She is also a funded investigator in SSPC, the SFI research centre for Pharmaceuticals in Ireland. She completed her BSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry at University College Dublin. Following postdoctoral appointments at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she established the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry research group at Maynooth University in Ireland as a Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Lecturer. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016 and served as Head of Department between 2017 and 2020. She moved to the School of Physics at the University of Bristol in February 2020.