Current Group Members

Peter Gallagher (2024 to present)
Research Fellow
Previous roles and education:
– Visiting Researcher, University of Birmingham, UK
– Graduated PhD student, University of Birmingham, UK
– MChem, University of Southampton, UK
Email: p.gallagher@bham.ac.uk

Alistair Wilson (2024 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSci, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: axw639@student.bham.ac.uk

Julia Szymanska (2024 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem (Hons), Lancaster University, UK
Email: jxs1889@student.bham.ac.uk

Joshua Singleton (2024 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem (Hons), Lancaster University, UK
Email: jas455@student.bham.ac.uk

Fei-Yu Zhou (2024 to present)
PDRA
Previous roles and education:
– PhD, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
– BSc, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Email: f.zhou@bham.ac.uk

Qilong Sun (2024 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSc, University College London, UK
– BSc, King’s College London, UK
Email: qxs357@student.bham.ac.uk

Yi Zhang (Ella) (2023 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
Email: yxz1497@student.bham.ac.uk

Georgia Malcolm (2021 to present)
PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem, University of Bristol, UK
Email: gkm205@student.bham.ac.uk
Visitors and Project Students
Previous Group Members
Ellie Harding (2024 to 2025)
MSci student with Industrial experience

Sam Webber (2024)
Visiting undergraduate student
University of Cambridge, UK

Ilario Bau (2024)
Visiting PhD student
University of Bologna, Italy

Dr Abed Saady (2021-2024)
PDRA, VATAT Israel Postdoctoral Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
– PhD and MS, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Dr Martin Tlusty (2022-2024)
PDRA, Royal Society Newton International Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PhD and MSc, University of Poitiers, France

Andrea Savoini (2019-2023)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSc, University of Bologna, Italy

Dr Mandeep Kaur Chahal (2021-2023)
PDRA, Royal Society-Newton Postdoctoral Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
– PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Dr Noel Pairault (2018-2022)
PDRA, ERC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
– PhD and MSc, University of Poitiers, France

Dr David Lozano Mena (2018-2022)
PDRA, ERC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, iQCC – Universitat de Girona, Spain
– PhD, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Arnau Rubio Rodriguez (2018-2022)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSc and BSc, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

Alex Wilmshurst (2021-2023)
Transferred PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem, University of Southampton, UK

Federica Rizzi (2018-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSc, University of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Matthew Fitzpatrick (2018-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSci (Hons), Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Ellen Jamieson (2016-2021)
PDRA, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– Graduated PhD student
– MChem (Hons), University of St Andrews, UK

Shu Zhang (2017-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– BSc, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jack Maynard (2017-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSci (Hons), University of Bristol, UK

Theerapoom Boonprab (2017-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– BSc (Hons), Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand

Andrew Heard (2017-2021)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem (Hons), University of Warwick, UK
– Industrial Experience at DSM Specialty Resins, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Roman Romanski (2020)
4th year MChem project student
University of Southampton, UK

Militzia Dimitrova (2020)
3rd year MChem project student
University of Southampton, UK

Dr Amanda Acevedo-Jake (2018-2020)
PDRA, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PhD and MChem, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
– BSc (Hons), College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA

Dr Mike Jinks (2017-2020)
PDRA, ERC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
– MChem, University of Sheffield, UK

Dr Florian Modicom (2015-2019)
PDRA, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– Graduated PhD student
– MSc (Hons) and BSc, University of Rennes I, Rennes, France
Dr Jorge Meijide Suarez (2018-2021)
PDRA, Royal Society Newton International Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PhD, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
– M2 Master, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Dr Alberto de Juan (2017-2019)
PDRA, ERC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PhD, IMDEA Nanoscience / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
– MSc and BSc, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Zhi-Hui Zhang (Peggy) (2015-2019)
Graduated PhD student (CSC Scholarship)
Previous roles and education:
– MSc and BSc, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Dr Mathieu Denis (2014-2019)
PDRA, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– Graduated PhD student
– MSc (Hons) and BSc, University of Rennes I, Rennes, France

Ryo Furuhash (2018)
Visiting 1st year MSc student, funded by the TOBITATE! Young Ambassador Program
Kanazawa University, Japan

Dr Amanpreet Kaur Chahal
PDRA, Royal Society-SERB Newton International Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, University of Adelaide, Australia
– PhD, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
– MSc, Punjabi University, Patiala, India

Dr Jamie Lewis (2014-2017)
PDRA, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PhD and BSc (Hons), University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr Marzia Galli (2013-2017)
PDRA, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– Graduated PhD student
– Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
– MSc and BSc (Hons), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Dr Elise Rochette (2015-2017)
PDRA, Leverhulme Trust Fellowship
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, Seoul National University, South Korea
– PhD, University of Nottingham, UK
– MSci (Hons), Strathclyde University, UK

Ed Neal (2011-2015)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSc, University of Southampton, UK
– BSc (Hons), University of Bristol, UK

Dr Catherine Fletcher (2014-2015)
PDRA, EPSRC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PDRA, Imperial College London, UK
– PhD and MChem (Hons), University of Bristol, UK

Jessica Pancholi (2011-2015)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MSci (Hons), Queen Mary University of London, UK

Maraisa Sachini
Visiting 4th year PhD student
Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Dr Joby Winn (2012-2014)
PDRA, EPSRC-funded
Previous roles and education:
– PhD and MSci, University of York, UK

Robert Bordoli (2010-2015)
Graduated PhD student
Previous roles and education:
– MChem (Hons), Durham University, UK

Ben Groombridge (2010-2014)
Graduated PhD student (with Dr Igor Larrosa)
Previous roles and education:
– BSc (Hons), University of Bath, UK

Kajally Jobe (2009-2013)
Graduated PhD student (with Prof Mike Watkinson)
Previous roles and education:
– MSc with Industrial Collaboration, University of Warwick, UK
– BSc (Hons), University of Wolverhampton, UK

Camille Vanuxem (2011)
Visiting student
École Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale, Compiègne, France

Luca Cera (2010)
Visiting student
University of Milan, Italy

Hicham Lahlali (2010)
Visiting student
École Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale, Compiègne, France

