News

• March 2026

  • Rob O’Toole joined the group as a postdoc.

  • Alex B, George and Becky attended Suprachem 2026 in Dortmund. With both Alex and Becky presenting posters.

  

• February 2026

  • George presented at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community South and West Regional Meeting 2026.

  

  

  • Anne attended the World organoid and organ-on-chip (WORD) conference 2026.
• January 2026

  • ChemRxiv: https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-c3w8g/v3

  

• December 2025

  

  • Alex W for passed his 4^th year viva !!

  • The Group attended the Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Group conference with Alex W winning a poster prize.

  

• November 2025

  

  • Anne went to the Pancreatic Cancer UK Discovery and Translational Research Forum 2025 in Birmingham.
  • Anne also presented a poster at the Doctoral Research Poster Showcase.
• October 2025

  

  • Anne presented at the Institute for Life Sciences (IfLS) PhD Poster session.
• Sept 2025

  • George got Married !!
  • New PhD’s Matt Russell and Mari Cook joined the Group.
  • 4^th year student Alexandra Reynolds continues on in the group with Reuben Miller.
  • 3^rd Year students Shreya Panchmatia and Amelia Atkins Eade joined the group.

  • Review published; https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/cs/d4cs01037j

  

• July 2025

  

  • Group attended Oxford ERC MASC.
• June 2025

  • 3^rd Year Summer project students Alexandra Reynolds and Finlay Williams joined the group.
• January 2025

  • New PhD Zhihao Ling joined the group.

  

  • Group attended RSC Organic Chemistry Community South-West Regional Meeting 2025.
• Sept 2024

  • New PhDs Alex Buchanan, Anne Aarvik and Becky Kerridge joined the group.
• August 2024

  

  • Alex W and George presented at the Nano Bio Summer School in Hirschegg Austria.

  

• April 2024

  

  • Group attended Functional Molecular Photoswitches for Energy Storage and Beyond.
• September 2023

  • 4^th Year student Natalia Phillips continues on in the group for her BSc project (Winning the BSc project prize).
• June 2023

  • 3^rd Year Summer project student Natalia Phillips joined the group.
  • MSci project summer student Tangxuan (Trigger) Wen (文唐轩) joined the group.
• January 2023

  • Alex W transfered to the Group from the Goldup Group (https://golduplab.org/) after their move to the University of Birmingham.
• December 2022

  • George joined the University of Southampton as a Senior Research Fellow.