Dr. Sophie Rocks, BSc, MSc, PhD., is a Toxicologist within the Institute of Environment and Health at Cranfield University. She has degrees in Biochemistry and Toxicology from the University of Surrey and a PhD from Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London.

Sophie has had a varied research career to date with interests in inflammation, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, free radicals species and biomaterials (hydroxyapatite). Her recent research has been in the field of materials within the internationally-renowned Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre at Cranfield University where she was involved in the production and characterisation of nanoparticles and functional ceramics. More recently, Sophie has managed a Defra research project considering the risk assessment approaches for manufactured nanomaterials and their suitability.