Head of Applications

Dia-Stron, Hampshire, UK

Biography

Rebecca is the Head of Applications at Dia-Stron. She has 18 years of experience of working in hair care testing. In her current role she is responsible for further developing the knowledge of hair and other non-hair fibre applications within Dia-Stron in addition to over-seeing their in-house contract testing services. Rebecca has a Ph.D. in applied inorganic chemistry from Cardiff University. In 2007 she started her career at Croda predominately working in hair claims substantiation. In 2016, Rebecca took on the position of Senior Hair Research Specialist in the Global Hair care centre at Lonza before joining Dia-Stron in 2018. Over the last few years, she has focused on understanding single fibre fatigue of fibres as well as increasing her knowledge of visual testing and on the use of natural fibres within composite materials. Rebecca is currently an industrial supervisor for a Dia-Stron funded Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde on micromechanical interfacial testing in the field of composite materials.