Flavell joined
Imperial College London as a
Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 1990 Flavell joined the
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the Department of Chemistry. She was part of the strategy group that designed the
4GLS at
Daresbury Laboratory in 2004. She is a member of the
University of Manchester Living Lab. Flavell is interested in using nanoparticles and
Quantum dots for efficient fuel cells and new materials for
photovoltaics. She works on
scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM),
X-ray absorption near edge structure (NEXAFS) and
extended X-ray absorption fine structure. She has studied
titanium dioxide and
Tin(IV) Oxide. She is interested in the surface reactivity of nanocrystals and dynamics of charge carriers in solar cells. She attempts to understand how solar cells age at the surface, in efforts to design passivation strategies. Flavell demonstrated that
cadmium telluride quantum dots can have near unity quantum yields. In 2014 she served as deputy chair of the physics panel of the
Research Excellence Framework (REF). Her research has been funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Public engagement In 2011 Flavell's research group demonstrated their work on quantum dots at the
Royal Society Summer Exhibition. She has delivered a
Pint of Science talk and discussed the
photon on
In Our Time in 2015. == References ==