Francesca Bennet received her Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Chemistry and her PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She then moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the group of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik as a post-doctoral fellow, where she studied the photopolymerisation behaviour of urethane acrylate monomers in a collaboration with Bayer MaterialScience. After a second post-doctoral position in the group of Prof. Axel Müller at the University of Bayreuth studying self-assembling block copolymers, she spent 6 years in resesarch and development in the pressure-sensitives adhesives industry. In 2020 she joined the German Federal Institue for Materials Research and Testing where she worked on method development for ToF-SIMS analysis of nanoparicles in the framework of the ACEnano project, and in 2021 moved to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, where she is currently studying the risks of micro- and nanoplastic particles in the environment using ToF-SIMS and MALDI-MS, within the EU Horizon 2020 POLYRISK project.
