Kate Thornton CEng CSci FIMMM
President 2023-2024
Kate is a Lead Research Scientist at Croda in Widnes and her work is focused on sustainable biopolymers.
Kate studied Biomedical Material Science for her undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester. She then went on to complete her PhD in self-assembled peptide hydrogels for the three-dimensional culture of embryonic stem cells at the same university.
Kate first became involved with IOM3 as a student in the Younger Members' Committee (now the Student & Early Career Group) in 2008 and succeeded Neil Glover as President in January 2023.