Dr. Natalia Martsinovich obtained her first degree in Chemistry from the Belarusian State University in 2000. She received her PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Sussex in 2005, where she also worked as a temporary Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in 2003-04. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Physics at King’s College London (2004-2008) and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick (2008-2013). She was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 2013 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2023. She is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research uses computational methods to study the properties of materials and surface-adsorbate interfaces to obtain fundamental insights that are otherwise inaccessible by experimentation; the key applications of her research include photocatalysis, photovoltaics and nanotechnology.