Postdoctoral researchers:
PhD Students:
Alumni:
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Present: 2014-2020
Research: Prebiotic synthesis of RNA nucleotides, lipids and amino acids.
Subsequent position: Senior Chemist at Concept Life Sciences
Present: 2017-2020
Research: Prebiotic synthesis of cysteine peptides
Subsequent position: Higher Medical Device Specialist at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Present: 2013-2022
Research: Prebiotic nucleic acid and peptide synthesis
Subsequent position: Lecturer in Chemistry, Kings College London
Present: 2019-2020
Research: Crystallisation techniques and strategies for the synthesis of key prebiotic molecules.
Present: 2013-2016
Research: Prebiotic nucleotide synthesis
Subsequent position: Pharmaron, Inc.
PhD Students:
Graduated: 2023
Research: Prebiotic cofactor and peptide synthesis, photochemistry
Subsequent position: Organic Chemistry Experimental Officer, UCL
Graduated: 2023
Research: Reactivity of amidines, peptides and organocatalysis
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Todd group, UCL
Graduated: 2023
Research: Peptide synthesis, organocatalysis, photochemistry
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Powner group, UCL
Graduated: 2021
Research: Studies Towards Nucleic Acids at the Origins of Life
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Szostak Lab, UChicago
Graduated: 2020
Research: Studies of prebiotic physical models towards understanding the emergence of biological homochirality
Graduated: 2019
Research: Thiol catalysed prebiotic peptide ligations in water
Subsequent position: Business management consultant
Graduated: 2019
Research: Prebiotic peptide elongation by the chemoselective ligation of aminonitriles
Subsequent position: Data scientist
Graduated: 2018
Research: Studies towards the prebiotic synthesis of nucleotides and amino acids
Subsequent position: Associate editor, Nature Chemistry
Graduated: 2018
Research: The prebiotic synthesis of furanosyl-nucleosides
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Balasubramanian group, Cambridge
Graduated: 2017
Research: Studies towards the prebiotic synthesis and phosphorylation of ribonucleotides
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Graduated: 2016
Research: Studies Towards a Chemical Origins of RNA: Divergent Prebiotic Synthesis of Pyrimidine and 8-oxo-Purines Ribonucleotides
Subsequent position: Teaching GCSE and A-level chemistry
Graduated: 2016
Research: Studies toward a prebiotic protometabolism
Subsequent position: Analyst
Masters Students:
Francesca Ridgeway Bishop, MSci
William Sheppard, MSci
Atthapol Tweesri, MRes Drug Discovery
Ruocen Sun, MSci
Harry Bell, MSci
Huajing Lui, MRes Chemical Science
Rang Wan, MRes Drug Discovery
Sophie Walpole, MSci
Aminat Amoo, MSci
Yisi (Jasmina) Lui, MRes Drug Discovery
Alex Heaton MSci
Cheng (Frank) Cen, MSci
Jawaher Al Nawah, MRes Chemical Science
Benjamin Colville, MSci (Winner of the Charles Vernon prize for Masters Best Project)
Marcos Fernandez, MSci
James Rushworth, MSci (Joint with Prof. Tom Sheppard).
Giuliamonica Leonardi, MRes Drug Discovery
Conrad Lim, MSci
Kevin O’Loughlin, MRes Drug Discovery
Xinglin (Lynne) Yang, MSci
Raquel Fraquel, MSci (Joint with Cancer Research Technologies; Winner of the Charles Vernon prize for Masters Best Project)
Chenye Sun, MSci
Izaak Fryer-Kanssen, MSci
Harriet Story, MSci (Joint with Cancer Research Technologies)
Summer Students:
Min Gyu Choi (Seoul National University)
Conrad Lim (RSC-Nuffield Scholarship)
Raquel Fraquel (Nuffield Scholarship)