Dr Veronika Kapsali

Biography

Veronika Kapsali is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Professor of Materials Technology and Design at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London (UAL). She founded and leads the Active Materials Lab. Her research explores how principles from biological materials can inform sustainable textile systems, using practice-led approaches that bring design and STEM disciplines together.
Veronika was AHRC Leadership Fellow in Bio-informed Textiles and Co-Investigator on the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology (BFTT) Creative Industries Cluster. She has attracted over £1 million in research funding from UKRI, Innovate UK, Horizon 2020 and industry, holds several granted patents, and is the author of Biomimetics for Designers, now in its second edition.
She is a member of the AHRC, MRC and EPSRC Peer Review Colleges, an expert evaluator and project monitor for Horizon Europe.