Alumni - 2010 Cohort

• ‌Ryan Beattie (PhD)

  Ryan graduated from Manchester University, where he investigated the synthesis of natural products and gained industrial experience at Pfizer. After completing his PhD on versatile approaches to the synthesis of deoxy sugars and their analogues, Ryan trained as a Secondary Science Trainee Teacher. In 2015 he joined St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School as a Science teacher specialising in Chemistry and in 2018 was appointed Head of Chemistry.
• Paul Cogswell (PhD)

  Paul graduated at Durham University and spent his final year working on platinum-bismuth compounds under the supervision of Prof. Braunschweig in Wuerzburg, Germany. He completed his PhD on iron-mediated cross coupling reactions and in 2015 he joined Isis Innovation (Oxford), where in 2016 was promoted to Technology Transfer Manager.
• Steve Cooper (PhD)

  Steve is a Bristol graduate who worked on the synthesis of new supramolecular carbohydrate receptors for his final year project, for which he was awarded the Lilly Prize. His PhD research was on palladium catalysed CH activation and its applications in total synthesis. After graduating he decided to become a science teacher in an effort to inspire the next generation of STEM researchers. He qualified in 2016 and joined Fallibroome School as a Chemistry teacher.
• Sophie Edwards (PhD)

  Sophie graduated from Cardiff University, where she investigated the acid-catalysed cyclisation of unsaturated sulfonamides. Sophie completed her PhD project on the development of novel anion receptors and transporters for potential medical applications. In 2014, Sophie joined Grant Thornton UK LLP as an Audit Associate.
• ‌Katie Maskill (PhD)

  Katie graduated from York and spent a year in AstraZeneca during her undergraduate studies. Her PhD project was on a novel photochemical cycloaddition rearrangement sequence and the application of the reaction to a natural product synthesis. Her work was published in Angewandte and was selected as a VIP article, as well as appearing on the front cover. In 2014, Katie joined AstraZeneca as a Senior Scientist in Process Chemistry.
• Johnathan Matlock (PhD)

  Johnathan graduated from York and completed his final year project while on industrial placement at F.Hoffmann La-Roche, Basel, Switzerland. His PhD project was in the area of sulfonium salt chemistry. He published a paper in  Chemistry - A European Journal and won first prize in the Syngenta Poster Competition (Bristol, 2013). After graduating he worked as Research Assistant in the Aggarwal groug and in 2017 he joined Ziylo as a Senior Scientist.
• Dominic Pye (PhD)

  Dominic is a Manchester graduate and his final year project investigated the application of olefin metathesis reactions to carbohydrate chemistry. He completed his PhD project on iron-catalysed cross coupling and worked for Prof. Neal Mankad at the University of Illinois, Chicago before joining Imperial College London in 2017 as a research associate for Prof. George Britovsek.
• Nicholas Race (PhD)

  Nick is an Oxford graduate whose final year project explored a cross-metathesis based approach to pyrroles for which he won the final year thesis prize. His PhD project was on palladium-catalysed cyclisations of oxime esters. In 2013, he was awarded a prestigious SCI Scholarship and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Sigman group in Utah, USA. In Autumn 2018 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA.
• Charles Renney (PhD)

  A Bristol graduate, Charley worked on the synthesis of novel antibiotic inhibitors and spent a year at GSK. His final PhD project was on the development of carbohydrate receptors. After completing his PhD, Charley joined HGF Limited in 2014 where he trained to become a patent attorney.
• Megan Shaw (PhD)

  Megan graduated from Sheffield University, where she worked on the development of an enantio-divergent route to chiral amines. She spent her placement year at GSK working as a medicinal chemist within the Neurosciences CEDDon. Megan's PhD project was on carbonylative ring expansions of aminocyclopropanes. After working in the MacMillan group (Princeton, USA), Meg joined Merck, USA Process Chemistry Rahway (NYC, USA) in 2018.

• Iain Thistlethwaite

  Iain is a Glasgow graduate whose final year project involved building privileged heterocyclic structures using novel titanium alkylidene reagents. His PhD project investigated the structure elucidation and total synthesis of the polyketide derived kalimantacin/batumin antibiotics. After completing his PhD, Iain joined Learning Science Ltd. in 2014.
• Phillip Unsworth (PhD)

  Phil graduated from Oxford, where he studied the structural determination of a reported natural product by total synthesis. His completed his PhD project on molecular assembly line synthesis using lithiation-borylation and after working as a research assistant for Prof. Cathleen Crudden in Kingston (Ontario, Canada) he joined Proximagen (Cambridge, UK) in 2016, to work as a medicinal chemist.
• Nina Ursinyova (PhD)

  Nina is a Bristol graduate who investigated the asymmetric synthesis of styrene oxide using cobalt salen complexes during her final year. Nina gained industrial experience at TauChem in Slovakia where she spent 6 months as a synthetic chemist. She completed her PhD project on the synthesis and reactivity of cyclic sulfamidates and in 2014 joined Evotec as a Senior Scientist in Discovery Chemistry.