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News

 

August 2024

Congratulations to Amy for being awarded the runner up Inorganic chemistry thesis prize for her Part 2 project

 

July 2024

Aidan and Manzoor's paper on fast-relaxing azobenzene-based anionophores has been published in Chem. Eur. J.

 

July 2024

Anna’s paper with the Davis group is published in Chemical Science

 

June 2024

Charlie's paper in collaboration with the Sørennsen group in Copenhagen has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

 

June 2024

Toby and Amir's work has been published in Chemical Communications

 

March 2024

Manzoor, Toby and Martin's work is published in Angewandte Chemie as a "Hot" paper.

 

February 2024

Xiangyu and Toby's work is published in JACS.

 

December 2023

The group's research is highlighted in a Team Profile in Angewandte Chemie.

 

November 2023

Congratulations to Charlie and Elba, who won the Bright Network "Women Who Inspire Award" for their podcast, Periodically.

 

November 2023

Congratulations to Kelly for winning a poster prize at the Oxford Women in Chemistry Symposium.

 

October 2023

Charlie and Elba's article on the impact of periods on practical chemistry education is published in Trends in Chemistry.

 

October 2023

Hui, Toby and Andrew's work on catenane anion transporters is published in Angewandte Chemie.

 

October 2023

Welcome to the group to new DPhil students Gurshinder and Chiara and new Part II students Amy, Andy and Srija.

 

September 2023

Congratulations to Toby for submitting his DPhil thesis and starting a new position as a PDRA in the Harry Anderson group.

 

August 2023

Congratulations to Elba for winning the Inorganic Chemistry Part II thesis prize!

 

July 2023

Shaun, Toby and Euan's work on light activated inter-vesicle signalling networks is published in Angewandte Chemie.

 

July 2023

Manzoor and Shaun's mini-review on Photo- and Redox-Regulated Transmembrane Ion Transporters is published in Angewandte Chemie.

 

June 2023

Welcome to Dr Karolis Norvaisa, who joins us on a 2 month research placement from the group of Dr Hennie Valkenier at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

 

June 2023

Congratulations to Aidan for passing his DPhil viva and for starting his new position as a PDRA in the group of Angela Russell.

 

June 2023

Congratulations to Elba and Dom for handing in their Part 2 theses!

 

May 2023

Congratulations to Shaun for winning a poster prize at the RSC Organic Division South West Regional Meeting.

 

April 2023

Toby, Andrew and Amir's paper on relay transport is published in Chem Sci and highlighted as Editor's pick of the week!

 

April 2023

The lab is awarded a Bronze Leaf lab accreditation, showing our further commitment to working sustainably.

 

March 2023

Congratulations to Aidan, with Jas and Pavele from the Ed Anderson group, for a fantastic 2nd place in the UK Retrosynthesis Competition.

 

January 2023

Aidan's article on main group photoswitches is included in the Chemical Science 2022 most popular organic chemistry collection.

 

January 2023

Work led by Andrew on redox controlled tellurium anionophores is now out in JACS.

 

December 2022

Welcome to Dr Manzoor Ahmad who joins us as a PDRA from the Talukdar group at IISER Pune.

 

December 2022

Group Xmas dinner!

christmas dinner

November 2022

Aidan and Isi's paper on photoswitchable anion binding and catalysis is out in Chem Comm.

 

October 2022

Welcome to our new Part 2s Elba and Dom, and our new DPhils Xiangyu, Elin and Anna

 

September 2022

Aidan's work on main group photoswitches is out in Chem Sci (and designated a Hot Article!)

 

July 2022

Many congratulations to Maria (part 2 student) for being awarded the Inorganic Chemistry Part 2 thesis prize!

 

July 2022

Toby gives a talk at MASC ECR in Loughborough

 

July 2022

The lab is awarded a Bronze Leaf lab accreditation as we work to make the lab more sustainable.

 

July 2022

Laura's work on controlling ion transport via photo-regulated carrier mobility is published in Chem Sci (and designated a Hot Article).

 

June 2022

Congratulations to Laura for passing her DPhil viva!

lauras viva

June 2022

Congratulations to Part 2 students Maria and Amir for handing in their MChem theses!

maria and amir leaving
maria and amirs leaving drinks

May 2022

Toby's work on relay ion transporters has been published in JACS.

 

May 2022

We say a fond farewell to Dr Aaron Scott.

 

May 2022

Well done to Laura for submitting her thesis!

 

October 2021

Welcome to Dr Andrew Docker, who joins us a PDRA after a DPhil with Prof. Paul Beer (Oxford).

 

October 2021

Aidan, Ally and Sam's work or Red-shifted tetra-ortho-halo-azobenzenes for photo-regulated transmembrane anion transport is out in OBC; it features work from Sam's part 2 and computational studies on transporters in membranes in collaboration with the Duarte group.

 

October 2021

Welcome to Shaun and Kelly, who join us as new DPhil students, and to Amir and Maria, who have started their Part 2 projects in the group. Welcome back to Isi, who is staying in the group for a DPhil after her Part 2 last year.

 

July 2021

Laura, Toby, Aidan and Matt's perspective article on supramolecular chemistry in lipid bilayers in out in Chem Sci.

 

June 2021

Xiaobo and Andrew's paper on anion sensing by aggregation induced emission, and photoswitchable anion binding is out in Angewandte Chemie.

 

June 2021

Congratulations to Isi and Euan for handing in their Part 2 theses!

 

May 2021

Laura's paper on sigma hole mediated anion transport in collaboration with the Duarte and Beer groups is out now in Chemistry - A European Journal.

 

May 2021

Matt and Laura present at the International Symposium on SupraBiomolecular systems.

 

April 2021

Welcome to Dr Aaron Scott, who joins us from the Lusby and Brechin groups at Edinburgh University.

 

November 2020

Welcome to Isi and Euan, who join us for their Part 2 projects.

 

November 2020

Matt's review in Nat. Rev. Chem. is published.

 

September 2020

We bid farewell to Xiaobo.

 

August 2020

Congratulations to Aidan for winning a poster prize at the ISMSC2020 twitter poster session!

 

July 2020

Congratulations to Sam who has been awarded a runner up Inorganic Chemistry Part II Thesis Prize for his thesis "Redshifted Azobenzene Photoswitches for Visible Light-Controlled Ion Transport"!

 

July 2020

Laura's profile is features as part of the Oxford Women in Chemistry series on Twitter.

lauras oxwichem profile

 

June 2020

Sam presented his Part II research at the Society of Chemical Industry Young Chemists National Undergraduate Poster Competition (online).

 

June 2020

Congratulations to Part 2 students Hudson and sam for handing in their theses!

 

June 2020

Laura is awarded a RSC Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector International Travel Prize.

 

June 2020

 Aidan's paper is published in Chemical Science.

 

April 2020

Laura's paper is out in Chemical Science.

 

December 2019

Congratulations to Laura who has been awarded the Chemical Science award for outstanding poster at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting, held at the University of Kent.

lauras poster prize

 

December 2019

Group Xmas dinner.

xmas dinner

 

November 2019

Group pizza outing.

pizza lunch

 

October 2019

Welcome to our new DPhil studnets: Toby Johnson joins us from the University of Durham and Aidan Kerckhoffs who is staying in the group after his SBM CDT project rotation.

 

September 2019

Welcome to our first Part II students, Hudson and Sam.

 

September 2019

Welcome to Dr Xiaobo Shang, who joins us as a PDRA from Seoul National University.