2025 Cohort

Dan graduated from Cardiff University in 2024. During his final year he worked for Prof. Simon Pope investigating intricate cyclometalating and ancillary ligand design to tune the physical and photophysical properties of Ir(III) phosphorescent complexes.

Harvey graduated from the University of Southampton in 2025. For his final year of study, Harvey undertook an industrial placement at Vertex, Oxfordshire, under the supervision of Dr Timothy Kwok. During this time he employed HTE and machine learning to help develop a metallaphotoredox deoxygenative C(sp2)-C(sp3) cross-coupling methodology.

Graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2024. For her final-year research project, supervised by Prof. Ross Denton, she investigated the synthesis of vicinal diamines via photoredox-enabled nucleophilic diamination of styrenes. She also completed a placement year at Endeavour Speciality Chemicals Ltd, where she developed and optimised the synthesis of an aroma compound used in the flavour and fragrance industry at a 20 kg production scale.

Oliver Green graduated from the university of Bristol in 2025. In his third year he was awarded the faculty of science undergraduate prize. During his final year project, he worked towards the total synthesis of phomolide F in the Willis group, and carried out a subsequent RSC funded summer research project within the same group.

Shehla completed her M.Phil. at Government College University, Faisalabad, in 2023. She has worked as a lecturer in Chemistry at UIC since 2024-2025. Her research work was on the facile synthesis of anti‐seizure thiophen‐2‐ylmethyl 5‐phenylfuran‐2‐carboxylates via Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction and validating the results with docking studies under the supervision of Prof. Nasir Rasool

Graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2024. During her final year research project, she worked, at Technische Universität München, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Lukas Hintermann, on chiral diamine ligands in Cu-catalysed N-arylation of indoles.

Anna graduated from the University of Bristol in 2025. In her final year project, she worked with Prof. Carmen Galan on the synthesis of the disaccharide galabiose, for use in agglutination assays to detect bacterial infection. During the summer of 2024, she undertook a RSC funded studentship with Prof. Chris Willis, which looked towards the total synthesis of the natural product galbonolide H.

Holly graduated from the University of Reading in 2023, having spent her 3rd year studying abroad at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her final year project focused on the synthesis of novel photocleavable protecting groups for a controlled release of glutamate in vivo. Following graduation, she spent 2 years working at ATDBio (under Biotage) as an oligonucleotide chemist before leaving in 2025 to join TECS CDT.

Jack completed his integrated MSci degree at the University of Bristol in 2025. In his final year, he worked with Dr. Alastair Lennox on both defluorination and fluorination chemistry, a project that earned him a presentation prize at the SCI undergraduate symposium in Manchester.

Graduated from the University of Exeter in 2022. In the summer of 2021, he was awarded the Jackson Grime Davies studentship to carry out a project developing microfluidic assays for monitoring bacterial biofilm formation. His final year project investigated the substrate specificity of a NagK homologue from Plesiomonas shigelloides. In October 2022, he began a research masters at the University of Oxford in the Ben Davis group. During this time, he worked on the synthesis of Lipid II analogues to probe MurJ antagonism as well as the synthesis of carbohydrate and peptide building blocks for the solid phase synthesis of peptidoglycans.

Graduated from the University of Bristol in 2025. During his final year research project, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Clayden developing water-soluble oligothiourea foldamers and was awarded the Organic and Biological project prize for his work. He spent his third year at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. For this he was awarded the Mike Rothwell prize for MSci Chemistry with Study in Continental Europe.

Graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2025. In his final year he undertook his Masters project under the supervision of Dr. Mateo Sanchez, synthesising fluorescent probes and amino acid derivatives, to investigate an aKG-dependent dioxygenase biocatalyst.

Tanya graduated from the University of Oxford in 2025. During her final year, she worked under the supervision of Thomas Lanyon-Hogg on the design and synthesis of chemical probes to promote the oxidative killing of bacteria.

Graduated from the University of Bristol in 2023 with a BSc degree. For her final-year project, she worked under the supervision of Prof. Aggarwal FRS, investigating the stereoselective assembly-line synthesis and NMR analysis of 1,3,5-trimethylated diastereomers. After graduating, she completed an MSc in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London in 2024, where she worked with Prof. Jones, focusing on the 3D printing of bioactive glass scaffolds and their characterisation.

Graduated from Jesus College, University of Oxford in 2025. During his master's project, he worked under the supervision of Professor Edward Anderson, focusing on the development of a novel total synthesis of morphine using a thiophene-S,S-dioxide-mediated cycloaddition cascade.