PEOPLE
The group in Summer 2024
There are currently 23 members of the group: 4 postdocs, 16 PhD students, 2 research assistants, and one member of support staff.
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Lab telephone number: +44 (0)1223 336364
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View information of former group members.
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Postdocs:
Dr Nupur Goswami (she/her)
ng562[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, IIT Bombay, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Debabrata Maiti
Dr Yusra Abdelhamid (she/her)
ya308[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt
Dr François Richard (he/him)
fr419[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, Queen Mary University of London, 2021
Advisor: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis
Dr Joseph Phelps (he/him)
jmp242[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt
Fifth Year PhD Students:
Zhang-He Goh (he/him)
zhg21[at]cam.ac.uk
BSc (Pharm), National University of Singapore
Advisor: Prof. Han Kiat Ho
Marcus is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on novel methods for alkene synthesis.
Zhang-He is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on protein functionalization.
Marcus Grocott (he/him)
mg978[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Birmingham
Advisor: Prof. Rachel O'Reilly
James Robinson (he/him)
jdr50[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of York, 2020
Year in Industry: LifeArc, Cambridge
Fourth Year PhD Students:
Hanna is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on DNA functionalization.
Harry is a Herchel Smith scholar and works on the photocatalytic synthesis of amines.
Rachel is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on amine synthesis.
Harry Waller (he/him)
hw574[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Birmingham, 2021
Advisor: Dr Liam Cox
Rachel Phillips (she/her)
rcp55[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of York, 2021
Year in Industry: RSSL, Reading
Hanna Saik (she/her)
hms63[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt
Michal works on the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles.
Sarah works on photocatalysis for the synthesis of amines.
Michal Pychtin (he/him)
mp2012[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Ed Anderson
Sarah Beaton (she/her)
sb2499[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Bristol, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Carmen Galan
Third Year PhD Students:
Russell is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on novel C-N coupling methods.
Basia is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on the functionalisation of nucleotides.
Markus is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on novel methods of macrocyclisation.
Basia Kraus (they/them)
bmk30[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Michele Vendruscolo
Markus Böcker (he/him)
mnab3[at]cam.ac.uk
MSc, ETH Zürich, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Dean Toste
Russell Woodger (he/him)
rw698[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Michael Willis
Ryan is a Gates scholar and works on the synthesis of amines.
Ryan Kang (he/him)
rjdk2[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Sormanni
Second Year PhD Students:
Alina Lelke (she/her)
al2170[at]cam.ac.uk
MSc, Universität Heidelberg, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann
Kohl Ratkovich (he/him)
kar47[at]cam.ac.uk
MS, University of Virginia, 2023
Advisor: Prof. Michael Hilinski
First Year PhD Students:
Ka Yan Ngai (she/her)
kyn27[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Matthew J. Gaunt
Robert Langford (he/him)
rl746[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Darren J. Dixon
Part III Students:
Difei Chen (he/him)
dc802[at]cam.ac.uk
Zachary McGuire (he/him)
zjm22[at]cam.ac.uk
Dip Banerjee (he/him)
db871[at]cam.ac.uk
Salvatore Nigrelli (he/him)
sn602[at]cam.ac.uk
Leo Wilkinson (he/him)
lw705[at]cam.ac.uk
Flora Yang (she/her)
yy510[at]cam.ac.uk
Research Assistants:
