Laura Ellington is a PhD researcher at Imperial College London, where she is part of the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures. Her current research, under the supervision of Antonio del Rio Chanona and Benoit Chachuat, focuses on developing artificial intelligence tools to support decision-making for decarbonising chemical value chains. By integrating machine learning and process optimisation methods, her work seeks to support sustainable chemicals manufacturing, in partnership with BASF.