Fairlamb Group History

Past Members and Destinations

Career destinations include the pharmaceutical sector, catalysis companies, post-doctoral placements (EU and USA) government agencies (e.g. forensic science), nuclear industry, academia (as independent researchers, teaching or in knowledge transfer) and teaching (school level).

36 PhD students and 7 MSc students have completed their studies within the Fairlamb Research Group.

Previous Ph.D. Students

  1. Marine Labonde  (2025) – Overseas student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in Japan.
  2. Stuart Smith (2025) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – PDRA at the University of Durham
  3. Theo Tanner (2024) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Industry.
  4. David Husbands (2024) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of York with Dr. Angelo Frei.
  5. T. Burden (2023) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Education at Imperial College London.
  6. N. Jeddi (2023) – Overseas student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Nottingham.
  7. J. Eastwood (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in the Fairlamb and Lynam groups.
  8. G. Athavan (2022) – Overseas Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Bristol.
  9. G. E. Clarke (2021) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in the Fairlamb group. 
  10. N. W. J. Scott (2020) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Edinburgh.
  11. M. Petchey (2020) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Chemical industry (Sweden).
  12. L. A. Hammarbäck (2019) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – PDRA at ICIQ (Spain).
  13. J. T. W. Bray (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  14. G. Platt (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  15. Q. Xu (2017) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (China).
  16. L. A. Ledingham (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK).
  17. K. Appleby (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK) then Patent law.
  18. N. P. Yahaya (2016) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Academia (Nigeria).
  19. A. J. Reay (2016) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Germany).
  20. J. Milani (2016) – UK/EU student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  21. C. Haji-Cheteh (2016) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Thai Government.
  22. T. O. Ronson (2015) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Industry (AstraZeneca).
  23. J. S. Ward (2014) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  24. S. De Ornellas (2013) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  25. T. J. Williams (2013) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  26. S. E. Bajwa (2012) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK).
  27. A. G. Jarvis (2011) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Fellow, University of Edinburgh (UK).
  28. T. E. Storr (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Belgium).
  29. J. P. Reeds (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (USA).
  30. A. J. Atkin (2010) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  31. M. J. Burns (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  32. P. E. Ellis (2009) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  33. E. C. Hurst (2009) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Forensic Science Laboratory (UK).
  34. A. R. Kapdi (2008) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Assistant Professor (Mumbai).
  35. B. E. Moulton (2008) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  36. A. G. Firth (2008) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Nuclear Industry (UK).
  37. S. Grant (2006) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – chemical industry (New Zealand).
  38. C. M. Crawforth (2004) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – family business.

Previous PDRAs

  1. Jonny Eastwood
  2. Neil Scott
  3. George Clarke
  4. James Firth
  5. Joshua Bray

Previous MSc Students

  1. Adam Carr (2023/24) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  2. Hyewon Han (2023/24) – Overseas Student. Destination after leaving group – Ph.D. (Oxford, UK)
  3. Rebecca Willans (2023) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Ph.D. (York, UK)
  4. James Metcalf (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – Ph.D. (York, UK)
  5. N. Donaldson (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – Lab technician (York, UK)
  6. E. Dzotsi (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK)
  7. C. Haji-Cheteh (2010) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  8. A. R. Kapdi (2005) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Germany).
  9. Dr. I. Khazal (2005) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).

Previous MChem Students

  1. Ollie Howse (2023/24)
  2. Jesis Gurung (2023/24)
  3. Ben Simmons (2023/24)
  4. Sam Bury (2022/23)
  5. Harry Rostron (2021/22)
  6. Robert Munday (2021/22)
  7. Anthony Eyles (2019/20)
  8. Aaron Aspell (2019/20)
  9. Pablo Garcia Thomas (2018/19)
  10. Nick Heywood (2018/19)
  11. James Cawdell (2018/19)
  12. Charlotte Haigh (2016/17)
  13. Francis Clarke (2016/17)
  14. Katie Fernandez (2016/17)

Previous Erasmus Students

  1. Hanna Pfisterer (2024)
  2. Juliette Schleicher (2020)
  3. Clara Velasco Rodriguez (2019)
  4. Maria Rosa Fernandez (2019)
  5. Marco Werr (2017)
  6. Stephanie Meyer (2016)
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