Lucy Gloag graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand with her BSc/BCA and BSc(Hons). She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2018 on the synthesis and characterisation of Ru-based nanocatalysts, before the commencement of her Postdoctoral Fellow positions with Prof Richard Tilley and Prof Justin Gooding. Her work on nanomaterials for electrocatalysis led her to an appointment as a Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney in 2023. She joins the Research School of Chemistry at ANU to develop single atom and nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion technologies.

I am a nanomaterials chemist and electron microscopist who joined ANU in 2024 from UTS. As an emerging leader in the advanced materials synthesis and electron microscopy characterisation, my research interests relate to the development of functional energy materials, specifically the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials for electrocatalytic application. The overarching scientific question I aim to answer with my research is ‘how can nanostructure be used to enhance the performance of electrocatalysts?’. To do this, I use solution-phase synthesis of nanoparticles with precise control of the crystal structure, dimensions and surface faceting and relate these structural features to the electrocatalytic properties using transmission electron microscopy and electrochemistry. Long term, I envision that the understanding of these fundamental structure-property relationships will enable the development of highly efficient scaled-up electrode materials.