Dr Katharina (Kathi) Edkins is Professor at the Strathclyde Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. She joined the University of Strathclyde in 2023 after having been Reader in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester, Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast, and Lecturer in the Division of Pharmacy at Durham University. 

Dr Edkins' research focus is on supramolecular interactions in pharmaceutical materials ranging from pre-crystallisation disordered materials to novel drug delivery platforms based on supramolecular gels. Her group specialises in neutron scattering techniques, such as diffraction, quasi-elastic neutron scattering and neutron total scattering. In addition, she uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, FT infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and other fluorescence microscopic methods to investigate molecular interaction and dynamics.

2010 - PhD, Institut der Pharmazie, Leopold-Franzenz-Universität Innsbruck, Austria

2004 - Approbation as pharmacist, Hessen, Germany (converted to GPhC registration in 2014)

2004 - Graduation as pharmacist (MPharm), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• Secretary of the Special Interest Group 13 of the European Crystallography Association
• Member and deputy chair of the Life Science and Soft Matter advisory panel to the Science and Technology Facility Council
• Member and Chair to the Subcommittee College 5A of the Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France (2015 - 2020)
• Expert for the Horizon2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship action (since 2018)
• Elected secretary of the UK Neutron Scattering Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics (2017 - 2021)
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, European Crystallography Association, British Crystallography Association, British Association for Crystal Growth, Deutsche Gesellschaft der Kristallographie, Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy