Building the future of separation science

Is it her sharp gaze or the fact that, even as a director at AstraZeneca, she likes to pore over lab data? Speaking to Jennifer Kingston, one gets the sense that not much escapes her attention – except, as it turns out, the email in her spam folder announcing she had won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2025 Technical Excellence Prize for delivering a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable methods and establishing a degree apprenticeship programme.