Valeska is an executive in the engineering team. Valeska works on the assessment, protection, and commercialisation of Intellectual Property. She manages the invention portfolio arising from Materials, Chemical Engineering and Earth Sciences and Engineering.
Valeska has a degree in Chemical Engineering, a MSc in Petroleum Refining System Engineering and a PhD in Chemistry sponsored by BP from the University of Surrey.
Prior to Imperial, Valeska was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Surrey and Associate Technology Transfer Executive at Imperial Innovations within the Engineering Intellectual Property Team. She also spent some years in industry as a plant engineer.