Zoe Schnepp completed a PhD with Professor Stephen Mann at the University of Bristol in 2009. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and interfaces in Germany before moving to the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Here, she was awarded an independent postdoctoral fellowship in the International Center for Young Scientists. In 2012, she returned to the UK as a Birmingham Fellow

Biopolymers as a Flexible Resource for Nanochemistry, Z. Schnepp, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, Accepted One-step route to a hybrid TiO2/TixW1-xN nanocomposite by in-situ selective carbothermal nitridation, Z. Schnepp, M. J. Hollamby, M. Tanaka, Y. Matsushita, Y. Katsuya, Y. Sakka, Sci. Tech. Adv. Mater., 2012, accepted. One pot route to sponge-like Fe3N nanostructures, Z. Schnepp, M. Thomas, S. Glatzel, K. Schlichte, R. Palkovits, C. Giordano, J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 17760. A flexible one-pot route to metal/metal oxide nanocomposites, Z. Schnepp, S. R. Hall, M. J. Hollamby, S. Mann, Green Chemistry, 2011, 13, 272. Biotemplating of metal carbide microstructures: The magnetic leaf, Z. Schnepp, W. Yang, M. Antonietti, C. Giordano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 6564. Synthesis of highly magnetic iron carbide nanoparticles via a biopolymer route, Z. Schnepp, S. C. Wimbush, C. Giordano, M. Antonietti Chem. Mater., 2010, 22, 5340. Alginate-mediated routes to the selective synthesis of complex metal oxide nanostructures, Z. Schnepp, S. C. Wimbush, S. Mann, S. R. Hall, CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 1410. Structural evolution of superconductor nanowires in biopolymer gels, Z. Schnepp, S. C. Wimbush, S. Mann, S. R. Hall, Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 1782.