Mehrnoosh Ostovar obtained her PhD in organic chemistry from UCL (2005-09), where she worked in the area of natural product synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Karl Hale and Prof. Charles Marson. Upon completion of her studies, she joined Prof. Varinder Aggarwal’s group as a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemistry at University of Bristol. In this period, she worked on asymmetric aziridinations and also palladium-mediated annulation of vinyl aziridines with Michael acceptors to synthesize stereocontrolled substituted pyrrolidines and the application to a formal synthesis of (–)-α-Kainic Acid (2009-2012). In 2012, Mehrnoosh started working as a postdoctoral research officer for Prof. Stephen Husbands in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at University of Bath. Her research focus was on discovery and development of new opioid ligands as relapse prevention agents for the treatment of opioid abuse and as analgesics with low abuse potential. Mehrnoosh joined University of Hertfordshire in 2018. She is currently a senior lecturer in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry with research interest in the area of medicinal chemistry.