# Jennifer Garden

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{{short description|British chemist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Jennifer Garden
| birth_name        = Jennifer Anne Garden
| image             = Dr Jennifer Garden 2024.jpg
| caption           = Garden in 2018
| fields            = [Catalysis](/source/Catalysis), [polymer chemistry](/source/polymer_chemistry), [sustainable chemistry](/source/sustainable_chemistry), [organometallic chemistry](/source/organometallic_chemistry)
| workplaces        = [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London)
| alma_mater        = [University of Strathclyde](/source/University_of_Strathclyde)
| thesis_title      = Advances in synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of zinc and zincate complexes containing alkyl and/or amido ligands
| thesis_url        = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605975
| thesis_year       = 2014
| doctoral_advisor  = Professor Robert Mulvey
| awards            = [Royal Society of Chemistry](/source/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry) Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship, [UKRI](/source/UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship, [L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards](/source/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_For_Women_in_Science_Awards)
| website           = https://www.gardengroupchemistry.com/
}}

'''Jennifer''' "'''Jenni'''" '''Anne Garden''' is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), where she leads a research group investigating how [catalyst design](/source/Catalysis) and [organometallic chemistry](/source/organometallic_chemistry) can be used to develop sustainable and degradable plastics using renewable sources.

== Early life and education ==
Garden carried out her undergraduate studies in [chemistry](/source/chemistry) at the [University of Strathclyde](/source/University_of_Strathclyde), obtaining a Master of Science in 2010. She was awarded the Andersonian Centenary Medal Prize for most outstanding final-year chemistry student.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Student Prizes {{!}} University of Strathclyde|url=https://www.strath.ac.uk/science/chemistry/news/studentprizes/|access-date=8 June 2021|website=www.strath.ac.uk}}</ref> 

She continued at the [University of Strathclyde](/source/University_of_Strathclyde) for her doctoral studies in chemistry, investigating the development of new [zinc](/source/zinc) and [zincate](/source/zincate) complexes for applications in [metallation](/source/metallation) reactions and obtaining her PhD in 2014.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Garden|first1=Jennifer A.|last2=Kennedy|first2=Alan R.|last3=Mulvey|first3=Robert E.|last4=Robertson|first4=Stuart D.|date=9 November 2011|title=Neutral zinc, lower-order zincate and higher-order zincate derivatives of pyrrole: synthesis and structural characterisation of zinc complexes with one, two, three or four pyrrolyl ligands|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/dt/c1dt11430a|journal=Dalton Transactions|language=en|volume=40|issue=44|pages=11945–11954|doi=10.1039/C1DT11430A|pmid=21976071 |issn=1477-9234|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Garden|first1=Jennifer A.|last2=Kennedy|first2=Alan R.|last3=Mulvey|first3=Robert E.|last4=Robertson|first4=Stuart D.|date=2 May 2012|title=Ambient temperature zincation of N-Boc pyrrolidine and its solvent dependency|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cc/c2cc31793a|journal=Chemical Communications|language=en|volume=48|issue=43|pages=5265–5267|doi=10.1039/C2CC31793A|pmid=22531651 |issn=1364-548X|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Advances in synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of zinc and zincate complexes containing alkyl and/or amido ligands|url=http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23171|publisher=University of Strathclyde|date=2014|degree=Ph.D.|first=Jennifer Anne|last=Garden}}</ref> She was awarded the Hamilton-Barret Prize for her first-year PhD research (2011), and the Ritchie Chemistry Prize for best PhD thesis (2015).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Jennifer Garden {{!}} 2021 Dalton Division early career award: Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship winner|url=https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/2021-winners/dr-jennifer-garden/|access-date=8 June 2021|website=Royal Society of Chemistry|date=7 June 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Research career ==
Garden joined the Department of Chemistry at [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London) as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014, where her work investigated the synthesis and design of new [heterometallic catalysts](/source/Heterogeneous_catalysis) for applications in [copolymerisation reactions](/source/Copolymerisation) between carbon dioxide/epoxide.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Garden|first1=Jennifer A.|last2=Saini|first2=Prabhjot K.|last3=Williams|first3=Charlotte K.|date=9 December 2015|title=Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: A Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalyst|url=https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b09913|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=137|issue=48|pages=15078–15081|doi=10.1021/jacs.5b09913|pmid=26618526 |bibcode=2015JAChS.13715078G |issn=0002-7863|hdl=10044/1/27827|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

In 2016, Garden was awarded the inaugural [Christina Miller](/source/Christina_Miller) Fellowship by the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), where she currently leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Christina Miller Research Fellowship {{!}} School of Chemistry|url=http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/alumni/get-informed/newsletter-issue-14/christina-miller-research-fellowship|access-date=8 June 2021|website=www.chem.ed.ac.uk}}</ref> Her research interests lie in combining approaches from [organometallic chemistry](/source/organometallic_chemistry) and [catalyst design](/source/Catalysis) to develop sustainable [polymer materials](/source/Polymer) (plastics) that can be effectively recycled and generated from renewable sources.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Garden|first1=Jennifer A.|last2=White|first2=Andrew J. P.|last3=Williams|first3=Charlotte K.|date=2017|title=Heterodinuclear titanium/zinc catalysis: synthesis, characterization and activity for CO 2 /epoxide copolymerization and cyclic ester polymerization|journal=Dalton Transactions|language=en|volume=46|issue=8|pages=2532–2541|doi=10.1039/C6DT04193K|pmid=28154848 |s2cid=3340047 |doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.11820/320f9a37-40c6-4bd7-adb0-5d4fdd783db6|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Trott|first1=Gemma|last2=Garden|first2=Jennifer A.|last3=Williams|first3=Charlotte K.|date=24 April 2019|title=Heterodinuclear zinc and magnesium catalysts for epoxide/CO2 ring opening copolymerizations|journal=Chemical Science|language=en|volume=10|issue=17|pages=4618–4627|doi=10.1039/C9SC00385A|pmid=31123572 |issn=2041-6539|pmc=6492632}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gruszka|first1=Weronika|last2=Garden|first2=Jennifer A.|date=31 May 2021|title=Advances in heterometallic ring-opening (co)polymerisation catalysis|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=12|issue=1|pages=3252|pmid=34059676| doi=10.1038/s41467-021-23192-y|issn=2041-1723|pmc=8167082|bibcode=2021NatCo..12.3252G }}</ref> Her research has been funded and recognised by the British Ramsay Memorial Trust (2017), the [L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship](/source/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_For_Women_in_Science_Awards) and the [UK Research and Innovation](/source/UK_Research_and_Innovation) Future Leaders Fellowship (2020).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Ramsay Trust Memorial Fellowship|url=https://www.soci.org/awards/scholarships-and-fellowships/ramsay-fellowship|access-date=8 June 2021|website=www.soci.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=DR JENNIFER GARDEN – Early Day Motions – UK Parliament|url=https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/53067/dr-jennifer-garden|access-date=8 June 2021|website=edm.parliament.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=UKRI invests £109 million in future leaders|url=https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-invests-109-million-in-future-leaders/|access-date=8 June 2021|website=www.ukri.org|language=en-US}}</ref>

Garden is also part of the editorial advisory board of the [American Chemical Society's](/source/American_Chemical_Society) [Macromolecules](/source/Macromolecules_(journal)) journal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Macromolecules|url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/mamobx/editors.html|access-date=8 June 2021|website=pubs.acs.org|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
Garden has won numerous prizes and fellowships for her contributions to the field of homo- and hetero-metallic catalysis and the advancement in developing such catalysts for applications in polymerisation chemistry and sustainable plastics.

* Dalton Fellowship early career award: [Sir Edward Frankland](/source/Sir_Edward_Frankland) Fellowship from the [Royal Society of Chemistry](/source/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry) (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Jennifer Garden {{!}} 2021 Dalton Division early career award: Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship winner|url=https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/2021-winners/dr-jennifer-garden/|access-date=8 June 2021|website=Royal Society of Chemistry|date=7 June 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [UKRI](/source/UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship (2020)<ref name=":2" />
* [L'Oréal-UNESCO](/source/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_For_Women_in_Science_Awards) International Rising Talents Award (2020)<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 February 2020|title=22nd L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards recognizes five exceptional women researchers in the life sciences|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/22nd-loreal-unesco-women-science-awards-recognizes-five-exceptional-women-researchers-life|access-date=8 June 2021|website=UNESCO|language=en}}</ref>
* Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal (2020)<ref>{{Cite web|last=UK|first=Macro Group|date=30 November 2020|title=Macro Group Medal 2020|url=https://macrogroup.org.uk/2020/11/30/macro-group-uk-medals/|access-date=8 June 2021|website=Macro Group UK|language=en|archive-date=8 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608160246/https://macrogroup.org.uk/2020/11/30/macro-group-uk-medals/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship](/source/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_For_Women_in_Science_Awards) (2019)<ref name=":1" />
* British Ramsay Memorial Trust Fellowship (2017)<ref name=":0" />
* [Christina Miller](/source/Christina_Miller) Research Fellowship from the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Christina Miller Research Fellowship {{!}} School of Chemistry|url=http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/alumni/get-informed/newsletter-issue-14/christina-miller-research-fellowship|access-date=8 June 2021|website=www.chem.ed.ac.uk}}</ref>

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