Helena Rapp Wright, PhD profile page

Dr Helena Rapp Wright is an MRC Centre Early Career Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s School of Public Health, focusing on exposure to contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). She earned her BSc in Chemistry from the University of La Laguna (Spain) in 2014 and an MRes in Forensic Science from King’s College London in 2016, completing research projects in analytical chemistry. After her MRes, she worked for two years at LGC (UK) in bioanalytical sciences, developing techniques for drug identification and quantification in clinical trials. In 2018, Helena secured an EPA-sponsored PhD studentship at Dublin City University, with part-time research at King’s College London, investigating CECs in environmental water samples. She completed her PhD in 2021 and joined Imperial College London as a Research Associate in the Emerging Chemical Contaminant Group, specializing in wastewater-based epidemiology. Her research interests span analytical and environmental chemistry, sustainability, wastewater analysis, biomonitoring, and CECs. Helena is also an elected member of the Environmental Chemistry Group at the Royal Society of Chemistry, contributing to advancing knowledge in environmental and analytical chemistry.