Asel SartbaevaCo Founder

United Kingdom - Bath, England

I currently wear several hats. I am a Reader in Chemistry (Associate Professor) at the University of Bath, I am CEO and co-founder of EnsiliTech Ltd, I am an Ambassador for the "Girls in Science" Program for UNICEF, I am a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow. EnsiliTech is working on making room-temperature stable vaccines for easier transport and storage, so that everyone will have access to vaccines across the globe.

In short, I am a scientist working on the following questions:
- how can we make bio-pharmaceuticals stable for transport without refrigeration;
- how can transport and store vaccines to remote countries without wastage;
- how can we make administration of vaccines easier for patients;
- how ensilication can help us in vaccine, antibody, peptide, protein, enzyme preservation and stabilization;
- what are the connections between structure - flexibility - properties in zeolites;
- what the host guest interactions between the zeolite host and removable templates during the synthesis;
- which parameters determine what zeolite crystallizes during the synthesis;
- all aspects of geometry and flexibility of framework materials.

Other questions which are close to my heart are:
- engaging children (especially young girls) with easily accessible (not dumbed down) science experiments to ignite their passion for science;
- making sure that every young person has equal access to science no matter what their skin color, ethnicity, nationality, place of birth, gender, sex orientation, accent, look, and beliefs are;
- making the scientific community into a more diverse, welcoming, thriving environment for all to succeed.