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Veronika Kapsali
Veronika is a professor of materials technology and design at the London College of Fashion at University of the Arts London, where she set up and leads the Active Materials Research Lab. Veronika was named ITMA Future Materials Innovator of the Year in 2014 and more recently was awarded AHRC Leadership Fellow in Bio-informed Textiles in 2020. In the last five years she has attracted over £1 million in funding (UKRI/AHRC, Innovate UK, H2020, industry). Veronika draws on her academic and industrial research to underpin a range of knowledge exchange activities on topics that intersect biology, materials science and textiles. She is the chair of the IoM3 Smart Materials and Systems Group and has written a series of educational films on biomimetic design, commissioned by BBC Learning. Her monograph Biomimetics for Designers is in its second edition and has been translated into French and Mandarin.
Contact: London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, London W1G 0BJ, UK.