Dr Dominic Savage

Dominic is originally from Shropshire and completed his bachelor’s at Keele University. Following the pandemic, he joined Dr Chris Garner at Nottingham Trent University. He explored drugs for diabetes by designing derivatives of carnosine to inhibit carnosinase. Dominic then left the Midlands and started his PhD at the University of Bath with Prof Matthew Davidson and Prof Matthew Jones. Dominic’s work in Bath was centred on investigating both the end-of-life and production of biobased alternatives to commodity polymers. The core of this project was the design of cheap, benign catalysts for the one-pot, closed-loop chemical recycling of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), an up-and-coming, biobased alternative to PET.