Kwang-Leong D Choy (DPhil, DSc, FIMMM, FISC) joined University College London in 2014 to take up the role of Director of UCL Institute for Materials Discovery. She has extensive experience in materials creation, discovery and exploitation of eco-friendly, cost-effective and sustainable thin films and nanomaterials processing technologies, especially for structural, functional and biomedical applications. She has published over 200 papers, including 2 books and 20 patents. She obtained her DPhil in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Hetherington Prize and Oxford Metallurgical Society Award. She was a Violette and Samuel Glasstone Research Fellow at Oxford before joining Imperial College in 1994. She pioneered the innovative Electrostatic Spray Assisted Vapour Deposition (ESAVD) based methods, which have led to the Grunfeld Medal Prize by Institute of Materials (UK). She was awarded a Visiting Professorship (2001/03) by the Swedish Engineering Research Council at the University of Uppsala, Visiting Professorship by Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011/2013). She has been awarded multimillion pounds research from EPSRC, HEFCE, the Royal Society, EU-FP 6 &7, Marie Curie, TSB, Regional Development Agency (RDA) and many companies. Kwang-Leong D Choy (DPhil, DSc, FIMMM, FISC) joined University College London in 2014 to take up the role of Director of UCL Institute for Materials Discovery. She has extensive experience in materials creation, discovery and exploitation of eco-friendly, cost-effective and sustainable thin films and nanomaterials processing technologies, especially for structural, functional and biomedical applications. She has published over 200 papers, including 2 books and 20 patents. She obtained her DPhil in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Hetherington Prize and Oxford Metallurgical Society Award. She was a Violette and Samuel Glasstone Research Fellow at Oxford before joining Imperial College in 1994. She pioneered the innovative Electrostatic Spray Assisted Vapour Deposition (ESAVD) based methods, which have led to the Grunfeld Medal Prize by Institute of Materials (UK). She was awarded a Visiting Professorship (2001/03) by the Swedish Engineering Research Council at the University of Uppsala, Visiting Professorship by Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011/2013). She has been awarded multimillion pounds research from EPSRC, HEFCE, the Royal Society, EU-FP 6 &7, Marie Curie, TSB, Regional Development Agency (RDA) and many companies.

Material Sciences