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).

41 PhD students and 9 MSc students have completed their studies within the Fairlamb Research Group.

Previous Ph.D. Students

  1. Fiona Brannan (2026) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Industry
  2. Lucy Tomczyk (2025) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Nottingham.
  3. Stuart McHale (2025) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Industry.
  4. Marine Labonde  (2025) – Overseas student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in Japan.
  5. Stuart Smith (2025) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – PDRA at the University of Durham
  6. Theo Tanner (2024) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Teaching fellow at the University of Oxford.
  7. David Husbands (2024) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of York with Dr. Angelo Frei.
  8. T. Burden (2023) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Education at Imperial College London.
  9. N. Jeddi (2023) – Overseas student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Nottingham.
  10. J. Eastwood (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in the Fairlamb and Lynam groups.
  11. G. Athavan (2022) – Overseas Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Bristol.
  12. G. E. Clarke (2021) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA in the Fairlamb group. 
  13. N. W. J. Scott (2020) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – PDRA at the University of Edinburgh.
  14. M. Petchey (2020) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Chemical industry (Sweden).
  15. L. A. Hammarbäck (2019) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – PDRA at ICIQ (Spain).
  16. J. T. W. Bray (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  17. G. Platt (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  18. Q. Xu (2017) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (China).
  19. L. A. Ledingham (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK).
  20. K. Appleby (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK) then Patent law.
  21. N. P. Yahaya (2016) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Academia (Nigeria).
  22. A. J. Reay (2016) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Germany).
  23. J. Milani (2016) – UK/EU student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  24. C. Haji-Cheteh (2016) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Thai Government.
  25. T. O. Ronson (2015) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Industry (AstraZeneca).
  26. J. S. Ward (2014) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  27. S. De Ornellas (2013) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  28. T. J. Williams (2013) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  29. S. E. Bajwa (2012) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK).
  30. A. G. Jarvis (2011) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Fellow, University of Edinburgh (UK).
  31. T. E. Storr (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Belgium).
  32. J. P. Reeds (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (USA).
  33. A. J. Atkin (2010) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).
  34. M. J. Burns (2010) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  35. P. E. Ellis (2009) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  36. E. C. Hurst (2009) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Forensic Science Laboratory (UK).
  37. A. R. Kapdi (2008) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – Assistant Professor (Mumbai).
  38. B. E. Moulton (2008) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Chemical industry (UK).
  39. A. G. Firth (2008) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Nuclear Industry (UK).
  40. S. Grant (2006) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – chemical industry (New Zealand).
  41. 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. Lucas Dalton (2024/25) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  2. Adam Carr (2023/24) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  3. Hyewon Han (2023/24) – Overseas Student. Destination after leaving group – Ph.D. (Oxford, UK)
  4. Rebecca Willans (2023) – UK Student. Destination after leaving the group – Ph.D. (York, UK)
  5. James Metcalf (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – Ph.D. (York, UK)
  6. N. Donaldson (2022) – UK Student. Destination after leaving group – Lab technician (York, UK)
  7. E. Dzotsi (2017) – UK student.  Destination after leaving group – Education – teacher training (UK)
  8. C. Haji-Cheteh (2010) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – unknown.
  9. A. R. Kapdi (2005) – Overseas student.  Destination after leaving group – PDRA (Germany).
  10. Dr. I. Khazal (2005) – UK student.   Destination after leaving group – PDRA (UK).

Previous MChem Students

  1. Zac Craig (2024/25)
  2. Will Chatterton (2024/25)
  3. Ollie Howse (2023/24)
  4. Jesis Gurung (2023/24)
  5. Ben Simmons (2023/24)
  6. Sam Bury (2022/23)
  7. Harry Rostron (2021/22)
  8. Robert Munday (2021/22)
  9. Anthony Eyles (2019/20)
  10. Aaron Aspell (2019/20)
  11. Pablo Garcia Thomas (2018/19)
  12. Nick Heywood (2018/19)
  13. James Cawdell (2018/19)
  14. Charlotte Haigh (2016/17)
  15. Francis Clarke (2016/17)
  16. Katie Fernandez (2016/17)

Previous Erasmus Students

  1. Clemens Zabel (2025)
  2. Hanna Pfisterer (2024)
  3. Juliette Schleicher (2020)
  4. Clara Velasco Rodriguez (2019)
  5. Maria Rosa Fernandez (2019)
  6. Marco Werr (2017)
  7. Stephanie Meyer (2016)
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