Congratulations to Women in Innovation Award winner Dr Tiffany Wood

Award funds will support Dr Wood’s business ventures in utilising scientific advancements to address societal challenges.

Dr Wood is passionate about using the physics of complex fluids to develop new innovations that will help people live more sustainably and in better health. She has received an Innovate UK Women in Innovation award which will further support her business ventures.

Biotech business

She is the co-founder of biotech business Dyneval which works to improve the profitability and sustainability of farming. In 2022, Dyneval launched the Dynescan, the first semen analyser able to measure the lifetime of semen in conditions similar to the reproductive tract. Tiffany and her co-founder, Dr Vincent Martinez developed this technology from the soft matter physics labs at the University of Edinburgh through to market, and it is bringing exciting new data insights to fertilisation capacity through its automated, precise and reproducible measurements.

Innovative technology

Dr Wood is the inventor of DAINTech, an innovative new gel phase formulation chassis technology that offers long-term stability and unique and beneficial flow characteristics without the use of synthetic polymers. It offers an alternative potential solution to formulate otherwise challenging ingredients and is expected to be broadly applicable to a wide range of industry applications.

Complex fluids

She is also the co-founder and former Director of the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership (ECFP), which specialises in understanding the interactions between components in soft materials and complex fluids and how they influence product behaviour. Through this understanding, the group helps companies optimise product performance, solve manufacturing challenges, and switch to more sustainable resources and efficient processes. 

Women in Innovation award

The Innovate UK Women in Innovation award was launched in 2016 to encourage more women to apply to Innovate UK funding opportunities. The programme supports women across the UK to fully realise their vision for their businesses and make a real difference to the world through innovation.

Dr Wood accepted her award plaque from the Innovate UK Business Connect team on the 7 November and afterwards gave an inspiring seminar for students and staff titled 'The power of physics: improving efficiencies and sustainability for a better future'.