Shurui Miao Wins Emerging Investigator Award

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Date 16 July 2025

Congratulations to St John's Career Development Research Fellow (CDRF), Dr Shurui Miao, on being named as one of six Emerging Investigator Award finalists by the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists.

Every three years, the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists's (IACIS) recognises a small number of outstanding early career researchers (within six years of completing their DPhil) in the field of colloid and interface science.

At the most recent IACIS's conference, held jointly with the American Chemical Society Colloids and Surface Scientists at the University of Alberta, Dr Shurui Maio was named as one of the IACIS Emerging Investigator finalists for 2025.

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Dr Shurui Miao is a Career Development Research Fellow (CDRF) in Chemistry at St John's. The College's CDRF programme offers early-career academics an outstanding opportunity to build a research profile within a collegiate community. (Learn more about the programme here.)

Dr Miao works with ionic liquids, a novel class of solvent which may enable more sustainable chemical processes. For a lay summary of his research, visit our CDRF research blog page.