Research Group

Current members

: Jonathan Clayden

: J-P Heeb (PhD 2020-)

: Mehul Jesani (PhD 2020-

: Maria Schwarz (postdoc 2020-)

: Jordan Berreur (postdoc, joint with the Collins group, 2021-)

: James Mortimer (PhD 2021-)

: Rajendra Mallick (postdoc 2021-)

: Katie Foster (PhD 2021-)

: Olivia Watts (PhD joint with the Collins group, 2021-)

: Matej Žabka (Postdoc 2022-)

: Ömer Taşpınar (Postdoc 2022-)

: Helge Berneaud-Kötz (Postdoc 2022-)

: Theo Bulless (PhD 2022-)

: Xiyue Leng (PhD, joint with the Woolfson group, 2022-)

: Nathan Picois (visiting research student from CYU Cergy 2022)

Former members

: Matthew Wootten (PhD 2018-2022, Postdoc 2022-2023, now postdoc withe Fujita group, Nagoya)

: Cornelia Göcke (Erasmus visitor 2022, from Univ. Bielefeld)

: Ellie Stammers (PhD 2019-2022, the Institute of Cancer Research)

: Branca van Veen (PhD 2019-2022, the postdoc Nuno Maulide @Vienna)

: Steve Wales (postdoc 2019-2022, then Wollongong, Aus)

: Makenzie Millward (PhD 2018-2022, then Sygnature)

: Javier Echavarren (postdoc 2020-)

: Mark Walsh (postdoc 2020-2021, then Hosea Nelson)

: Rakesh Saunthwal (postdoc 2018-2021)

: Frank Zieleniewski (PhD 2017-2020)

: Roman Abrams (PhD 2017-2020)

: Mary Okoh (PhD 2016-2020)

: Louise Eagling (PhD 2016-2020, now Merck)

: Mostafa Amer (PhD 2015-2019)

: Dan Leonard (PhD 2012-2016, PDRA 2016-)

: David Morris (PhD 2016-2019)

: David Tilly (Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow and PDRA, 2016-2019)

: Isabelle Wellhoefer (visiting PhD student 2019)

: Giulia Marsico (visiting PhD student 2019)

: Hossay Abas (postdoc 2017-18, now CRUK labs Cambridge)

: Alex Sandtorv (Postdoc 2018, now at University of Oslo)

: Quentin Lefebvre (DFG Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2018, then Spirochem, Basel)

: Sam Cattell (PhD 2014-2018, now process chemist with Aesica)

: Romain Costil (Erasmus 2013-14; PhD 2014-2018; then postdoc with Feringa)

: Jessica Hill (PhD 2015-2018, now with Johnson Matthey)

: John Ward (postdoc 2014-2018; now research team leader, Materials Innovation Centre @ Liverpool)

: Wojciech Zawodny (PhD, 2013-2017, then postdoc Maulide, Vienna; now with Pharmaron)

: Josep Mas Roselló (PhD 2013-2017; postdoc Cramer, EPFL Lausanne; now ETH Zürich)

: Michael Tomsett (PhD 2013-2017, now working at Carbometrics, Bristol)

: Dr Johnathan Matlock (postdoc 2015-2017, then Ziylo, Bristol)

: Romina Wechsel (PhD 2012-2016, now Regulatory Affairs Associate, Medicare, Winnipeg)

: Cath Adam (postdoc 2014-2016)

: Dr Katharina Gratzer (Schrödinger fellow, 2014-16, the Univ. Marseille)

: Julien Maury (Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, 2014-2016)

: Bryden Le Bailly (PhD 2011-15, postdoc 2015-2016, now editor at Nature)

: Francis Lister (PhD 2011-15) now working with Cancer Research UK

: Daniela Mazzier (PhD visitor 2015, then postdoc with Huc, Munich)

: Matteo De Poli (postdoc 2011-15, now working for FIS Montecchio)

: Liam Byrne (postdoc 2011-15, now with AstraZeneca, Macclesfield)

: Sam Staniland (PhD 2011-15, now with Johnson Matthey Catalysts)

: Rachel Atkinson (PhD 2011-15, now teaching chemistry)

: Vincent Diemer (postdoc 2011-14, now CNRS, Lille)

: Sarah Pike (postdoc 2011-14, now University of Birmingham).

: Fernando Fernández Nieto (postdoc 2013-15, now @Univ. Santiago)

: Philipp Ottersbach (DFG Fellow 2013-14, now @Berlin-Chemie)

: Julien Brioche (postdoc 2013-15, now Maître de Conférences, Univ. Rouen)

: Nelson Gímenez (Erasmus 2010-11)

: Renzo Luisi (sabbatical visitor 2012, Univ. Bari)

: Ana Carrasco Gento (Erasmus 2014-15, now @Univ Valencia)

: Richard Bissell (postdoc 2013, now now @AstraZeneca)

: Marta De Zotti (sabbatical visitor 2012, Univ. Padova)

: Jenn Jones (postdoc 2013-14, now @Univ. Manchester)

: Beatrice Bechi (postdoc 2012)

: Marju Laars (PhD visitor Tallinn, 2010)

: Hatice Berber (sabbatical visitor 2011-12, Univ. Reims)

: Tony Overy (MPhil 2012-13, now @Qatar)

: Erik Gálvez (Erasmus visitor 2009)

: Ole Schütte (Erasmus 2010-11)

: Michele Mancinelli (PhD visitor 2007)

: Nicole Volz (DFG fellow 2010-12, now @ORAFOL Europe GmbH)

: Gaëlle Mingat (PhD 2010-14, now @Rueping, Aachen

: Edmund Burke (PhD 2010-2014, now with Sanofi)

: Jonathan Beadle (MSc 2010-11, now PhD @Warwick)

: Simon Herbert (PhD SASL fellowship from Univ Stellenbosch); now @Bayer, Berlin

: Thomas Boddaert (postdoc 2010, now M. de Conf. Univ. Orsay)

: Daniele Castagnolo (postdoc 2012, now lecturer, Kings College London)

: Rob Brown (PhD 2009-2013, the postdoc @Kiessling, Wisconsin; now with Lilly)

: Mike Tait (PhD 2009-2013, now @Peakdale Molecular)

: Nadia Fleary-Roberts (PhD 2009-13, then Univ. Rouen; now at CatSci, Cardiff)

: Morgan Donnard (postdoc 2009-10, now CNRS, Strasbourg)

: Gilles Lemière (postdoc 2009-10, now CNRS, Paris)

: Jemma Senczyszyn (PhD2 2007-12, now teaching chemistry)

: Julien Lefranc (PhD 2008-11, postdoc @Trauner, Munich, now @Bayer, Berlin)

: Anne Fournier (PhD 2008-12, postdoc Gleason, Montréal; now @Peakdale Molecular)

: Paul MacLellan (PhD 2007-11, postdoc @Nelson, Leeds; now in scientific publishing)

: Ol’ga Karlubíková (MPhil 2007-9)

: Daniel Tetlow (PhD 2001-11, postdoc @Aissa, Liverpool; @Leigh, Manchester)

: James Clayton (PhD 2007-11, postdoc @Mapp, Michigan; @Nelson, Leeds; @Conway, Oxford)

: Steve Fletcher (Postdoc 2007-9, now Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

: Alejandro Castellanos (postdoc 2006-9, now with ChemoGroup, Madrid)

: Julie Toueg (postdoc 2008)

: Renaud Bach (Erasmus 2006-7)

: Alberto Minassi (sabbatical visitor 2007)

: Simon Sedehizadeh (PhD 2006-2009, now at Oakland Innovation)

: Rebecca Harvey (PhD 2006-2010, now at Peakdale Molecular)

: Abigail Page (PhD 2006-2010, now at Abbott Laboratories)

: Jordi Solà (postdoc 2007-10, now @Univ. Barcelona)

: Uli Hennecke (postdoc 2007-8, now at University of Münster)

: Heloise Brice (PhD 2005-8, now with Syngenta)

: James Senior (PhD 2005-8, now with SWITCH Materials, Vancouver)

: Stephen Rowbottom (PhD 2004-7)

: Sean Parris (PhD 2004-7, now with Procter and Gamble)

: Hazel Turner (PhD 2004-7, now a patenrt attorney in London)

: Wes Moran (postdoc 2006-7, now lecturer, University of Huddersfield)

: Thomas Adler (Erasmus 2004)

: Laurent Chabaud (postdoc 2006-7, now CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette)

: Damian Grainger (Postdoc 2006-7, now at Johnson Matthey)

: Tim Snape (postdoc 2005-6, now lecturer at UCLAN, Preston)

: Nuria Cabedo (postdoc 2004-5, now at University of Valencia)

: Loïc Lemiègre (postdoc 2004-5, now at Univ. Rennes)

: Jérémy Dufour (Erasmus 2005-6, now with MitryChem, France)

: Ben Read (PhD 2003-6, now with AstraZeneca)

: Mark Pickworth (PhD 2003-6, now with Heptares)

: Chris Worrall (PhD 2003-6, now with Sigma Aldrich)

: Mark Betson (postdoc 2002-5, now with Peakdale Molecular)

: Lluís Vallverdú (postdoc 2004-6, now a pilot with EasyJet)

: Gareth Arnott (postdoc 2004-6, now lecturer in Stellenbosch, South Africa)

: Cristina Luján (Erasmus 2004)

: Ho Kam (Ben) Lam (PhD 2002-5, now with Johnson Matthey, China)

: Chris Stimson (PhD 2002-5, now with Evotec)

: Neoclis Vassiliou (PhD 2002-5)

: Stuart Hamilton (2001-2004)

: Faye Knowles (PhD 2001-2004)

: Ann Bracegirdle (PhD 2001-2004, now in NHS management)

: Rachel Turnbull (PhD 2001-2004, now with Sigma Aldrich)

: Lupe Silvero (postdoc 2001, now at the Univ. Extremadura, Spain)

: Yann Foricher (postdoc 2001-2002, now with Sanofi Aventis)

: Andrew Lund (postdoc 2000-3, now with Carbogen, Manchester)

: Julia Zinngrebe (Erasmus 2002)

: Felix Major (Erasmus 2002)

: Alexander Grube (Erasmus 2001)

: Przemyslaw Kubinski (PhD 2000-3, now with Erigal, Keele)

: Savroop Purewal (PhD 2000-3, now in patent law)

: David Watson (PhD 2000-2003, now with Biofocus, Cambridge)

: Katherine Hebditch (PhD 2000-2003, now in patent law in New Zealand

: Federica Sammiceli

: Chris Galliford (MPhil 1998-9, then PhD Karl Scheidt, Chicago)

: Martin Kenworthy (PhD 1999-2002, now with AstraZeneca)

: Christel Menet (PhD 1999-2002, now Chief Scientific Officer of Confo Therapeutics, Belgium)

: Kirill Tchabanenko (postdoc 1999-2001, now lecturer at Queen’s Univ. Belfast)

: Latifa Youssef (PhD 1998-2001, now teaching chemistry)

: Paul Johnson (postdoc 1999-2000, then with AstraZeneca)

: David Mitjans (Erasmus 2000)

: Lai Wah Lai (PhD 1997-2000, moved to GSK, Singapore)

: Ryan Bragg (PhD 1997-2000, now with AstraZeneca, Cambridge)

: Samreen (Aqeela) Yasin (Awan) (MRes 1996-7, PhD 1997-2000)

: Catherine McCarthy (PhD 1996-9, now a medical writer)

: Anjum Ahmed (PhD 1996-9, then with Great Lakes Chemicals)

: Jennifer Pink (postdoc 1996-8, then AstraZeneca)

: Neil Westlund (PhD 1995-8, now at Arqule, Massachusetts)