Post-Doctoral Researchers
Carmen Simal Fernández
Carmen comes from Santander, Spain and carried out her PhD work in the laboratory of Prof. Jose Concellón at the University of Oviedo working on SmI2 and organolithium mediated transformations. During her PhD studies she spent time working as a visiting student in the groups of Prof. Varinder Aggarwal (Bristol), Prof. George Kokotos (Athens) and Prof. Steve Davies (Oxford) before undertaking postdoctoral research at Oxford in the same group.
Final Year PhD Students
Eoin Gould
Eoin gained a first class M. Chem. degree from the University of Edinburgh, completing his undergraduate project work with Dr Alison Hulme. His PhD project, concerned with the development and applications of novel amine-based organocatalysts, is funded by Schering-Plough and the EPSRC (CASE for New Academics).
4th Year PhD Students
James Douglas
James gained his degree from the University of York, carrying out an M. Chem placement with GSK. His PhD project, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, is focused upon developing novel asymmetric methods using N-heterocyclic carbenes.
Stuart Leckie
Stuart gained his M. Chem. degree from the University of St Andrews and carried out a final year project with Prof. David O'Hagan. His PhD project, sponsored by Pfizer, is concerned with probing the ability of N-heterocyclic carbenes to activate ketenes and developing their applications in synthesis.
3rd Year PhD Students
Dorine Belmessieri
Dorine gained an M.Sc from the University of Montpellier, carrying out an industrial placement with Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. Her PhD project is focused upon developing novel asymmetric methods using amidines and isothioureas.
Edward Richmond
Ed gained his degree from the University of York, carrying out an M. Chem placement with Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland. His PhD project, in collaboration with CRUK and the EPSRC, is focused upon developing hetero-Claisen type reactions in synthesis.
Chris Collett
Chris gained his M. Chem. degree from the University of St Andrews and carried out a final year project with Dr. Alan Aitken. His PhD project, sponsored by the EPSRC, is concerned with probing the mechanism of a variety of N-heterocyclic carbenes mediated organocatalytic transformations.
2nd Year PhD students
Louis Morrill
Louis gained his M. Chem degree from the University of St Andrews carrying out an industrial placement working for AstraZeneca (Charnwood). His project concerns novel methodology and synthetic applications of isothioureas.
Siobhan Smith
Siobhan also gained her M. Chem degree from the University of St Andrews, completing an undergraduate Masters project here in the Smith group. Her project is focused upon novel applications of isothiourea mediated catalysis.
Pei-Pei Yeh
Pei-Pei comes from Taiwan and gained her M. Chem degree from the University of St Andrews carrying out a final year project with Dr Alan Aitken. Her project concerns novel isothiourea mediated methodologies.
1st Year PhD students
Emily Robinson
Emily gained an MChem degree with Industrial Experience from the University of Edinburgh spending a year with Macfarlan Smith as a process chemist. This was followed by a masters project under the supervision of Prof Dave Leigh. Emily's PhD project investigates novel isothiourea catalysed transformations.
Alyn Davies
Alyn gained an MChem degree from the University of Warwick, completing a final year project with Prof Michael Shipman, having also undertaken placements at Astrazeneca (Charnwood) and Genentech (San Francisco). His PhD project is focused on developing and investiagting the scope of novel asymmetric catalytic processes using N-heterocylic carbenes.
Alix De La Houpliere
After obtaining a BSc at Heriot-Watt University, Alix gained her MSc degree from the University of Grenoble, carrying out a research placement in the Vollhardt Group at UC Berkeley. Her PhD project is focused on the development of asymmetric catalytic methodologies using cinchona alkaloids and isothioureas.
Undergraduate Project Students
Caroline Jones
Caroline is investigating the isothiourea mediated Steglich rearrangement and its application towards natural product synthesis.
Lyndsay Ledingham
Lyndsay's project probes novel reaction manifolds using isothioureas as asymmetric catalysts.
Jim Squires
Jim is also investigating novel applications of isothioureas as asymmetric catalysts.