2022 Cohort

• Anthony Abel (MChem)

  Graduated from the University of Leicester in 2021. In his final year project, Anthony worked with Dr. Alexander Pulis investigating the scope of B(C6F5)3-catalysed reactions of anilines with alkenes. Since then, he has completed a PGCE in Chemistry at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge.
• Krystof Chrappova (MSci) 

  Graduated from the University of Bristol in 2022. During his final year research project, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Craig Butts developing machine learning models for 1H and 13C chemical shift prediction. In the summers of 2020 and 2021, he undertook internships in the Manby group and ENTOS, respectively. 
• Zheqi Jin (MSci)

  Graduated from University College London in 2021. During his final year research, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Scott Woodley combining global optimization and DFT to predict the structures of uranium trioxide nanoclusters. 
• Jennifer Johns (MSci)

  Graduated from the University of Bristol in 2022. During her final year project she worked with Professor Paul Pringle investigating competing phospha-Michael addition reactions to Pt(0)-catalysed hydrophosphination, as well as synthesising glucose derivatives for their application as bioconjugate ligands.
• Mark John P. Mandigma (M.Sc.)

  Graduated from the Elite network of Bavaria’s Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis (SynCat) Master programme at Universität Regensburg in 2022. Under the supervision of Dr. Joshua P. Barham, Mark's M.Sc. thesis research involved  organophotocatalytic gas-liquid flow oxidation of trialkylamines, computational investigation of photocatalytic mechanisms, and non-covalent interactions in catalysis.  In the same year, he completed a Swiss European Mobility Program (SEMP) research placement at Universität Zürich, Switzerland focusing on the use of organoradical species, generated through photochemical or tandem electrochemical/transition metal catalysis, in synthesis under the guidance of Prof. Cristina Nevado.
• Lorna Minty (MChem)

  Lorna graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2022. She completed her masters project under Professor Andrew Lawrence on the synthesis of derivatives and ring homologues of a polyketide derived dimeric natural product with potential medicinal applications.
• Nicholas O’Donoghue (MChem)

  Graduated from the University of Oxford in 2020. His final year research project was supervised by Prof. Stuart Conway, and involved the Synthesis and Biological testing of BAPTA analogues to probe off target effects. After finishing university he worked as a PET radiochemist in Invicro for two years, producing and implementing radiotracers for clinical use. He also took an internship in the Max Plank institute for Solid State Research using scanning tunnelling microscopy in ultra-high vacuum to observe metal surfaces, and computational modelling of carbon nanoribbons to determine the degree of aromaticity when varying the periodic defects and dimensionality of these nanoribbions.
• Clare Rabbitt (MSci)

  Graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2022, Clare spent her final year working with Dr. Paul Davies investigating synthetic approaches for the formation of oxazole rings. In her third year as an undergraduate, she completed a year in industry at Evotec where she worked as part of a pharmaceutical research team carrying out synthesis of many novel compounds.
• Harvey Randle (MChem)

  Graduated from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford in 2022. During his final year research project, he worked with Prof. Jeremy Robertson investigating oxonium Diels-Alder reactions of 2 and 3-alkyl substituted cyclopentenones, inspired by existing work on a synthesis of phlegmadine A. 
• Liam Smith (MSci)

  Liam graduated from the University of Bristol in 2022. During his final year, he worked with Professor Chris Willis on the synthesis of a novel compound. This is to be used to determine the substrate specificity of key enzymes in the formation of tetrahydropyran rings in the biosynthesis of the antibiotic mupirocin.