Dr. Daisy Pooler is currently working as Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK. Daisy obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester, UK (2014 - 2018), and carried out her Master's research in the group of Prof. David Leigh on chemically-fuelled molecular walkers. She attained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2018 - 2023) where she developed novel heterocyclic light-driven rotary molecular motors.

 

She then moved to the group of Dr. Fredrik Schaufelberger at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden with a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual postdoctoral fellowship (2023 - 2026) where she studied rotaxane-based molecular machines for interfacing with biology, and was awarded on of the 2024 CAS Future Leaders for her research efforts. Since 2024, Daisy acted as de-facto group leader at KTH, managing the Swedish branch of the Schaufelberger group during its partial relocation to the University of Warwick, UK. In April 2026, she joined the UK branch of the group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

 

Her research interests are molecular machines, photochemistry, supramolecular chemistry, computational chemistry and chemical biology.