Dr Aisha N. Bismillah is a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851-Ramsay Memorial Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Kings College London. She is a supramolecular and physical organic chemist investigating dynamic and switchable systems for applications in biomedicine and energy storage.

Aisha obtained her MChem degree in 2015 from the University of Central Lancashire, also completing three undergraduate summer research placements – one of which was in the USA. Following a summer in industry with Veolia, she joined the laboratory of Prof. Paul McGonigal at Durham University, gaining her PhD in 2020. During her PhD studies, Aisha completed an RSC-funded placement with Prof. Surya Prakash at the University of Southern California, USA. In 2019, she was subsequently awarded a prestigious US–UK Fulbright Scholarship to join Prof. Ivan Aprahamian’s laboratory in the USA at Dartmouth College, which was followed by a return to the McGonigal group at the University of York in 2021 as a Leverhulme PDRA.

Since October 2024, Aisha has been hosted by the McTernan group as an 1851–Ramsay Fellow and is based at King’s College London as well as the Francis Crick Institute.

Research

• Organic Synthesis
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Physical Organic Chemistry
• Molecular Switches
• Dynamic Systems
• Molecular Imaging
• Energy Storage Solutions

The Bismillah Group is interested in dynamic and switchable systems for a variety of applications such as molecular imaging, energy storage solutions as well as catalysis.