Jessica Anne Harris, an MSc Chemistry student at Rhodes, is the proud 2016 South African Women in Science Awards (WISA) winner.
Jessica Anne Harris, an MSc Chemistry student at Rhodes, is the proud 2016 South African Women in Science Awards (WISA) winner.
Harris completed a BSc in 2013 (chemistry and physics) and a BScH in 2014 (chemistry with distinction) at Rhodes University.
She visited China’s Nanjing University in December 2015 for an exciting three-week research trip supervised by Prof Zhen Shen.
She worked on the synthesis of fused-ring-expanded subphthalocyanines. In June 2016 Harris travelled to the UK for a month-long research visit to University College London (UCL) with Prof Sandy Macrobert.
Harris’s research topic focuses on developing dyes for photodynamic therapy (PDT), a non-invasive alternative cancer therapy.
