Current group members

Post-docs and Research Fellows

Dr Nikos Tsoureas
ERC Post-doc Oct 2018-

Dr Rosmita Borthakur
Newton International Fellow Dec 2020-


Graduate Students

Rick Collins
PhD student Sep 2016-

James Durrant
PhD student Sep 2016-
**Winner of the £800 Wilkinson Poster Prize at Dalton 2018**
**Poster selected for a talk at the 2019 Organometallics GRC**
**Winner of the Poster Prize at USOCS 2019**

Mian He
PhD student April 2017-

Chris Price
PhD student Feb 2019-

Siobhan Temple
PhD student Sept 2019-



Other group members

Year 4 MChem students 2020/21
Aimee Clark, Charley Bolton

Former full-time group members

Dr Maria Heras-Ojea
EPSRC Postdoc 2017-2020
Now: Teaching Fellow, University of Strathclyde

Dr Anindita Chakraborty
Newton International Fellow 2018-2020

Dr Fu-Sheng Guo
Marie Curie Fellow 2015-2017
ERC Postdoc 2017-2019
Now: Assistant Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University

Dr Lewis Maddock
ERC Post-doc Aug 2017-Aug 2019
Now: Postdoc, University of Bern

Dr Arun Bar
Newton International Fellow Mar 2017-Mar 2019
Now: Assistant Professor, IISER Thirupati, India

Dr Ben Day
Leverhulme Trust and EPSRC post-doc (2012-2018)
Now: National Nuclear Laboratory

Oliver Townrow
ERC-funded summer student, 2018
Now: PhD student in Oxford

Sarah McDougall
Resarch student Sep 2016-Aug 2018

Dr Oliver Hemming
EPSRC PhD student
Sep 2014-April 2018
Now: research scientist with Johnson-Matthey

Dr Richard Grindell
EPSRC PhD student Sep 2013-June 2017
Now: Post-doc with Dr Louise Natrajan, Manchester

Dr Melvyn Ansell
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, 2017
Now: Trainee patent attorney

Roland Schulz
Erasmus+ Sep 2016-Feb 2017
Now: PhD student, Goettingen

Dr Tom Pugh
Post-doc (EPSRC and ERC) 2013-2017
Now: industry

Dr Sara King
PhD student Apr 2012-Apr 2016
Now: ?

Dr Mikko Hanninen
Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Jan 2015-May 2016
(Declined RS Newton International Fellowship, 2015-2017!!!)

Dr Kuntal Pal
Marie Curie IIF Aug 2013-Jul 2015
Now: Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta, India

Dr Jani Moilanen
Research Fellow, Jan 2014-Dec 2014
Now: Academy of Finland Fellow, University of Jyvaskala, Finland

Kieran Weldon
MPhil student Sept 2013-Sept 2014
Now: ??

Dr. Daniel N. Woodruff
PhD student 2009-2012
Now: post-doc, University of Oxford
Previously: post-doc with Dr. Rodolphe Clerac in Bordeaux

Dr. Charlene A. Smith
PhD student 2008-2012
Now: ?

Dr. Scott A. Sulway
PhD student 2008-2012
Now: chemistry teacher, UNSW

Dr. Sophia A. Solomon
PhD student 2007-2011
Now: high-school chemistry teacher

Mr. Roman Girshfeld
MPhil student 2007-2008
Now: Chemist at Astra-Zeneca