DrHelena Rapp Wright

Dr Helena Rapp Wright earned her BSc in Chemistry at the University of La Laguna (ULL, Spain) in 2014 and an MRes in Forensic Science at King’s College London (KCL, UK) in 2016. During her BSc and MRes, she undertook an industrial placement and two research projects focused on analytical chemistry.

Following her MRes study, she worked at LGC (Fordham, UK) for two years in the small molecules department for bioanalytical sciences. Her work focused on developing analytical techniques for the identification and quantification of drugs from clinical trials, as well as their sample analysis. In 2018, she successfully secured a PhD studentship sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland. Her PhD was held in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU) and part-time at KCL, researching contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in environmental water samples. She completed her PhD in 2021 and joined Imperial College London as a Research Associate in the Emerging Chemical Contaminant Group, focusing on wastewater-based epidemiology. Currently, she is an MRC Centre Early Career Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, studying exposure to CECs.

Helena (or Dr Rapp Wright) is also an elected member of the Environmental Chemistry Group at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of analytical and environmental chemistry, mainly sustainability, wastewater analysis, biomonitoring and contaminants of emerging concern.