Dr Rossana Wright obtained her MSci in Chemistry (1992) in her native country, at Universidad de la Repύblica, in Uruguay. In 1993 she obtained the award of a Research Fellowship from The Ohio State University, to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Prof Terry Miller (Ohio Eminent Scholar). Her research studies centred on High Resolution, Rotationally-Resolved, Electronic Spectroscopy of Free Radicals. During her PhD studies, Dr Wright won the 1996 Mayer-Henne Graduate Student Research Competition and was awarded her PhD in December 1997. Dr Wright then moved to the UK, joining Prof. Tony Stace’s research group at the University of Sussex with an EPSRC post-doctoral fellowship in 1998. In Stace’s group she was actively involved in studying the coordination and chemistry of stable metal complexes in the gas phase, as well as designing and builiding a helium nanodroplet molecular beam apparatus, to sudy metallic clusters at 1K.

In 2005 she moved to Nottingham as a temporary lecturer, and in 2006 was appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Physical Chemistry. Dr Wright was awarded the prestigious Lord Dearing Award in 2013, an award that recognises the outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham staff in enhancing the student learning experience. She obtained the status of Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy in 2016, in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. Dr Wright was promoted to Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry in 2017.