Melanie Britton obtained a BSc in Chemistry from London University (RHC) in 1992 and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1995, under the supervision of Prof Les Sutcliffe and Dr Duncan Gillies. Her thesis was on NMR spectroscopy of traction fluids. Follwing her PhD, she was a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof Paul Callaghan FRS at Massey University in New Zealand, working on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the rheology of wormlike micelles. She then moved back to the UK to work with Prof Ken Packer FRS at Nottingham University, looking at 2D relaxation resolved propagators for flow in porous media. In 2000, she received an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, where she worked with the group of Prof Lynn Gladden FRS at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre in the University of Cambridge, where she developed MRI methods for visualising Chemical Waves and Patterns. In 2004, she became a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Birmingham University and in 2011 became Senior Lecturer.

"NMR and Molecular Dynamics Study of the Size, Shape, and Composition of Reverse Micelles in a Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB)/n-Hexane/Pentanol/Water Microemulsion", A.J. Mills, J. Wilkie and M.M. Britton, J. Phys. Chem. B, 118 (2014) 10767–10775. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Electrochemical Cells Containing Bulk Metal", M.M. Britton, Chemphyschem, 15 (2014) 1731–1736. "De Novo Design of Ln(III) Coiled Coils for Imaging Applications", M.R. Berrick, D.J. Lewis, A.W. Jones, R.A. Parslow, T.R. Dafforn, H.J. Cooper, J. Wilkie, Z. Picramenou, M.M. Britton and A.F.A. Peacock, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136 (2014) 1166-1169. "Chemical patterns in translating vortices: inter- and intra-cellular mixing effects", A. Vallatos, R. Evans, B.W. Thompson, A.F. Taylor, M.M. Britton, Chaos, 23 (2013) 023115. "In Situ, Real-time Visualization of Electrochemistry using Magnetic Resonance Imaging", M.M. Britton, P.M. Bayley, P.C. Howlett, A.J. Davenport, M. Forsyth, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4 (2013) 3019–3023.