Claudia Tait

Dr Claudia Tait

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Claudia is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Early Career Fellow in Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford.

Claudia studied Chemistry at the University of Padova in Italy, first using EPR spectroscopy during her bachelor and master thesis projects involving the investigation of the photoprotection mechanism in natural light-harvesting complexes under the supervision of Marilena Di Valentin. 
She then joined the group of Christiane Timmel at the University of Oxford for her DPhil, working on the characterisation of artificial supramolecular porphyrin structures and biological systems using a series of advanced pulse EPR techniques. The main focus of her DPhil was the investigation of spin delocalisation in the radical cation and triplet states of porphyrin-based molecular wires designed in the group of Harry Anderson.

After her DPhil, Claudia joined Stefan Stoll's group at the University of Washington in Seattle to focus more on EPR instrumentation and simulation and worked on EPR method development exploiting shaped pulses. In Seattle, she also first started contributing to EasySpin, an open-source simulation toolbox for EPR spectroscopy, and has since continued to help with improvements and expansion of its capabilities.
Claudia then managed to secure a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, joining the groups of Jan Behrends and Robert Bittl at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she applied EPR to the investigation of materials for organic electronics, in particular to study doping mechanisms in organic semiconductors.

Claudia returned to Oxford to start her independent research group as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, where her work now focuses on leveraging EPR spectroscopy to gain an improved understanding of spins and spin-dependent processes in materials and devices for energy conversion.

Awards and Prizes

Bruker Thesis Prize, awarded by the ESR group of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Ulderico Segre Prize, awarded by the Italian Electron Spin Resonance Group (GIRSE)

2016 John Weil Young Investigator Award of the International EPR Society