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PostDoc

Robert Nixon

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Robert graduated from the University of Manchester in 2016 (MChem). Robert joined us for a PhD in September 2016 to work on the development of mechanocatalysts. After successfully defending his thesis in June 2020, Dr Nixon decided to stay with us for a postdoc.

Publications:
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Nat. Chem. 2020, 12, 826-831.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 3033-3036.

Awards:
Talk Prize at CheM62 meeting 2018 in Liverpool
Spring 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Department of Chemistry 

Xuan Yang

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Xuan graduated from Nankai University (Nankai, China) in 2016. He then moved to Germany and obtained his PhD in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Mastalerz at the ​Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Xuan joined us in May 2022 as a Newton International Fellow.

PhD students

Lei Chen

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Lei graduated from the East China University of Science and Technology in 2010 (B.S.) and Fudan University in 2013 (M.S.). After working in industry for a few years, Lei joined us in September 2019, on a UoM-CSC scholarship, to work on the mechanochemistry of mechanical bonds.

Kamil Suwada

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Kamil graduated from Bangor University in 2019 (MChem) and joined us in September 2019 to work on the development of unusual mechanochemical reactions.

Award
Oral Presentation Prize - Organic at the Departmental Postgraduate Conference 2022

Danny Treacher

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Danny graduated from Lancaster University in 2020 (MChem) and joined us in September 2020. Danny will work on mechanocatalysis.

James Ormson

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James graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2021 (MSci) and joined us in September of the same year. James will work on the mechanochemistry of catenanes.

Alice Weng Ieong

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Alice graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 (BSc) and from the University of Manchester in 2021 (MPhil). She then enrolled in the third cohort of iCAT CDT and initially joined the group for her lab rotation and decided to stay with us for her PhD (April 2022. Alice will work ​on the development of mechanocatalysts.

MRes

Qianqian Cheng

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After a successful MChem project in the group, Qianqian decided to stay with us for a MRes. Qianqian works on new retrocycloaddition mechanophores.

MChem students

Rosa Lawrence

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Rosa joined us for her MChem project in October 2022. Rosa works on retrocycloaddition mechanophores.

Kiril Atanasov

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Kiril joined us for his MChem project in October 2022. Kiril works on the mechanochemistry of mechanical bonds.

Visiting scientists

Sebastien Renson

Sebastien is visiting us from the University of Liege in Belgium where he's pursuing a Master in Chemistry. Sebastien will work on a force-controlled release system.

Former members

Postdocs
Paramita Das GCRF Visiting Fellow (07/2019-06/2020)
Min Zhang Newton International Fellow (01/2018-02/2020)
Rafael Sandoval PDRA (01/2018-01/2020)

PhD
Thomas Carr PhD student (10/2017-06/2021)
Robert Nixon PhD student (10/2016-06/2020)
Richard Stevenson PhD student (04/2016-12/2019)

PGT/MChem/rotation students
​Sabah Moman PGT student (04-09/2022)
Qianqian Cheng MChem student (10/2021-05/2022)
Hei Lok Herman Lo MChem student (10/2021-05/2022)
Antonia Reeves MSc student (10/202o-09/2021)
Guanhao Wang PGT student (04-09/2021)
Likchun Wu MChem student (10/202o-04/2021)
Benjamin Enright MChem student (10/202o-04/2021)
Wen-Chiao Lin PGT student (04-09/2020)
Elliott Nunn MChem student (10/2019-04/2020)
Sarah Kaye MChem student (10/2019-04/2020)
Jacob Kenyon iCAT CDT rotation student (10-12/2019)
Shannon Vassell MChem student (10/2018-04/2019)
Maurice Hewins MChem student (10/2018-04/2019)
Evelyn Sigley MSc student (10/2017-09/2018)
Samuel Haycocks MChem student (10/2017-04/2018)
Lewis Harrison MChem student (10/2017-04/2018)
Laurence Morris-Moody MChem student (10/2016-04/2017)
Jack Rowson MChem student (10/2016-04/2017)

Summer students/visiting scientists
Nerea Alvarez Llorente Visiting PhD student (09-12/2022)
Chaofan Yin 
Summer student (06-07/2022)
Norapat Siripornpitak Summer student (07-08/2019)
Olga Shvetsova  Summer student (13/06-12/07/2019)
Camille Gosée Visiting student (02/2019)
Julien De Winter Visiting scientist (06-07/2018)
Byron Gamble Summer student (06-07/2018)
Felix Gutorovas Summer student (06-07/2018)
Simon Box Erasmus student (02-05/2018)
Sharon Hubert Erasmus student (02-05/2018)
Sana Anwar Summer student (08/2017)
Lewis Harrison Summer student (07-08/2016)
​​Mark Smith Summer student (07-08/2016)