2014 Cohort

• Dr Jessica Hill (PhD)
  A University of York graduate, Jessica's PhD project, under the supervision of Profs. Jonathan Clayden and Kevin Booker-Milburn, was on the development of methodology for the ring-expansion of nitrogen heterocycles via aryl and vinyl migrations. After completing her PhD, she joined Johnson Matthey Battery Technologies as a research scientist.
• Dr Matthew Harper (PhD)
  A Bristol graduate, Matthew's PhD project, under the supervision of Dr. Chris Russell and Dr. John Bower, was on novel oxidative gold catalysis. After completing his PhD, he stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate with Prof. Tim Gallagher.
• Dr Yunxiang He (PhD)
  An Imperial graduate, Yunxiang's PhD proejct, under the supervision of Profs. Ian Manners and Charl Faul, was on self-assembly and biomedical applications of polylactide based block copolymers. After completing his PhD, he stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate with Prof. Ian Manners.
• Dr David Heard (PhD)
  A Sheffield graduate, David's PhD project was based on the structural elucidation and flexible synthesis of nonadrides with potential agrochemical applications, under the supervision of Profs. Chris Willis and Russell Cox. After completing his PhD, he stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate with Dr Ali Lennox.
• Dr Krishna Mistry (PhD)
  A Manchester graduate, Krishna's PhD project, under the supervision of Prof. Duncan Wass, Prof. Paul Pringle and Prof. R. Morris Bullock (PNNL, Washington), was on developing frustrated Lewis pairs based on mid and late transition metals for small molecule activation and catalysis. After completing her PhD, she joined Johnson Matthey as a Science Graduate.
• Dr Kathryn Porter Goff (PhD)
  A Bristol graduate, Kathryn's PhD project, under the supervision of Prof. Dek Woolfson in collaboration with Drs Richard Sessions and Paul Race, was on the rational design, synthesis, assembly and characterisation of new protein folds. After completing her PhD, she stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate.
• Dr Alistair Scott (PhD)
  A Bristol graduate, Alistair's PhD project, under the supervision of Profs. Gallagher and Woolfson, focussed on investigating and exploiting protein-carbohydrate interactions using designed proteins. After completing his PhD, he stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate.
• Dr Paul Walker (PhD)
  An Oxford graduate, Paul's PhD project, under the supervision of Prof. Matt Crump, Prof. Chris Willis and Dr Paul Race, was on the biosynthesis of the kalimantacin antibiotics. After completing his PhD, he joined teh University of Birmingham as a Postdoc Research Fellow.
• Dr Siying Zhong (PhD)
  A Sheffield graduate, Siying's PhD project, under the supervision of Dr. Craig Butts and Professor Varinder Aggarwal, was on combining computation, NMR and Assembly-Line Synthesis to explore conformational control of small molecules. After completing her PhD, she joined PROTAC drug discovery as a Medicinal Chemist.
• Dr Bin Zhou (PhD)
  A Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry graduate, Bin's PhD project, under the supervision of Profs. Varinder Aggarwal and Chris Willis, was on stereocontrolled synthesis of polypropionates based on building block assembly strategies by lithiation-borylation methodologies. After completing his PhD, he stayed on at the University of Bristol as a Postdoc Research Associate.