Group Members
Wanting to join the group?
If you are interested in joining the group there are a number of schemes available for both PhD studies and Post Doc research.
PhD Students
Rob Matthews did his MChem project in the group in 2021/22 and started in the group as a PhD student in Oct 2022. He is working on dispersible microporous polymer particles as catalysts
Mohammad Bajunaid is completing his PhD in the group after joining the group of Dr A Iraqi
Mingzhe Xu joined the group in May 2023 and is working on hypercrosslinked polymers for pollutant removal
Olivia Payne Thompson is working on the sustainable synthesis of porous polymers. She joined the group in 2025 after completing her MChem project in the group in 2024
Former Group Members
Dr Jiaqi Zhou i(2019-2024)
Dr Arosha Karunathilake (2021-2022)
Dr Xuefeng Qi (2017-2022)
Dr Supakorn Tantisriyanurak (2017-2021)
Dr Alex James (2016-2020).
Dr Thomas Robshaw (2016-2020)
Dr James Bezzina (2016-2020)
Masters' Students
2025/26 Blair Szulc (MChem), Marcus Day (MChem)
2024/25 William Jackson (MSc), Kiarash Karkii (MSc), James Walker (MSc)
2023/24 David Morgan (MChem), Olivia Payne-Thompson
2022/23 Anna Sanders (MChem)
2021/22 Nathan Linsley (MChem), Robert Mathews (MChem), Jaihao Li (MSc), Chenglin Liu (MSc), Mingzhe Xu (MSc)
2020/21 Ciaran Miles (MChem), Alex Moyes (MChem) and Rui Sha (MSc)
2018/19 Harry Duguid (MChem), Joe Wilson (MChem), Siyuan Liang (MSc)
2017/18 Michael Harris (MChem), Josh Lawlor (MChem), Lewis Peattie (MChem), Jake Reynolds (MSc) and Yu-Ting Chen (MSc).
2016/17 Jasmine Lightfoot (MChem), Jacob Smith (MChem) and Eduardo Hernandez-Portugal (MSc).
2015/16 Yumei Zhu (May) (MSc)
Visiting Students
Ronja Bodesheimer visited the group in the Winter Semester 2018/19 from the Brandenbburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
Lerato Molefe visited the group in Summer 2018 from CSIR, South Africa
Ichrach Bouamama was an ERASMUS+ student from the INSA Rouen, France in summer 2016