Fiona Brannan
Fiona completed a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 2014, and has since worked as a researcher at Johnson Matthey in the Efficient Natural Resources sector with a focus on catalyst preparation, testing and scale up. In October 2021 she joined the Fairlamb and Green Chemistry groups at York as part of the mobility DTP to research sustainable catalysts for bio-based chemical production, particularly concentrating on the use of Starbon supported Pd-base metal catalysts.
Lucy Tomczyk
Lucy obtained her MChem degree at the University of York, spending the final year in the O’Brien group working on an alternative synthetic route to (-)-quinine. She then returned to York to begin her Ph.D. (EPSRC iCASE), supervised by Prof. O’Brien and Prof. Fairlamb, focusing on stereospecific Csp3-Csp2 Suzuki-Miyaura cross-couplings of heterocyclic boronates.
Stuart McHale
Stuart completed his MChem (with medicinal chemistry) degree at Newcastle University working with Dr. Kate Madden investigating small molecule analogues of berberine as potential therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases. He also carried out an industrial placement with the centre for process innovation working on in-line analysis for continuous twin-screw wet granulation. In 2021 he began his Ph.D. co-supervised by Prof. O’Brien and Prof. Fairlamb working on stereospecific Csp3-Csp2 Suzuki-Miyaura cross-couplings of saturated heterocyclic boronates.
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