BACG2026 Speaker Profile

Katharina Edkins

University of Strathclyde, Professor

Professor Kathi Edkins is trained Pharmacist and has experience in pharmaceutical solid state, crystallography and neutron scattering. She has started her independent research group at Durham University in 2014 before moving to Belfast and Manchester. Since 2024, she is Professor in Molecular Pharmaceutics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where she leads a group of 10. Her research focusses on supramolecular recognition in disordered materials with a main interest in the factors leading to crystallisation of specific crystal forms and how to control these. In addition, she researches diffusion in soft materials such as gels with the goal to generate novel drug delivery platforms with tailored release kinetics. For her research on pharmaceutical hydrates, she has been awarded the BTM Willis Prize for early career researchers in neutron scattering in 2016, and she holds an ERC consolidator award since 2024.