Jenny-Lee Mathias is a PhD student researching sustainable catalytic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Ronny Neumann in the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute. She has a BSc in Medicinal Chemistry and MSc in Bioinorganic Chemistry, both from Bar-Ilan University.

Jenny-Lee’s PhD research utilizes electrochemical power to achieve environmentally friendly industrial processes by using water as an oxidant. In her recently published work, she oxidized water electrochemically to produce hydrogen peroxide (a benign oxidant) and activated it to produce oxidized wanted compounds. Currently, Jenny-Lee is working to develop a new method of in-situ water activation, using a water oxidation catalyst composed of cobalt and oxygen atoms. She is focused on electrochemical heterogeneous catalysis with the idea of transforming the current industrial polluting epoxidation production to an ecofriendly and more economical process.

Jenny-Lee volunteers with the iScientist program for Green Chemistry, where students are encouraged to explore the subject and expand their horizons, and introduces them to new role models. She also leads the Women’s Forum at the department of Chemistry at Weizmann Institute.