Her research considers coordination chemistry, inorganic semiconductors and metal fluoride scaffolds.
[1] After earning her degree in 1989, and a 2 year postdoctoral research position in Edinburgh, Reid moved to a lectureship in the University of Southampton.
[4] Her research considers inorganic coordination chemistry, with a particular focus on the design of macrocyclic ligands that involve chalcogen donor atoms.
[6] Reid has created molecular reagents that allow the synthesis of compounds for use in non-volatile memory, thermoelectric generators and two-dimensional materials.
In 2015, she co-led the Royal Society Summer Science exhibit Taking Technology Smaller, which introduced the public to electrochemistry as a means to build nanoscale electronic devices.