Past group members

The majority of past group members have stayed in the field of organic chemistry and gained jobs in both the UK and the US with major pharmaceutical companies.
Dr Peter Moore (postdoc, 1995-1997) went on to be a synthetic organic chemist at AstraZeneca.
Dr Clare Stevenson (PhD, 1995-1998) went on to be a medicinal organic chemist at Albany Molecular (NY state, US).
Dr Paul Guyo (PhD, 1995-1998) did a postdoc with George Olah- Nobel Laureate (Los Angeles, US) and went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Mike Waring (PhD, 1996- 1999) did a postdoc with Phil Magnus (Texas, US) and went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Rakesh Harji (PhD, 1996- 1999) started as a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca: he went on to be a patent attorney with AstraZeneca.
Dr Jon Winter (PhD, 1997-2000) went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Kevin Blades (postdoc, 1997-2000) went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Karl Ace (PhD, 1997-2000) did a postdoc with J. Sutherland (Manchester) and then worked as a production chemist for GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr Andrew McRiner (PhD, 1997-2000) went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with Novartis (New Jersey, US).
Dr Andrew Calabrese (postdoc, 1999-2001) went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with Pfizer.
Dr Ali Raoof (PhD, 2002) went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Evotec OAI (Abingdon).
Dr Lee Mitchell (PhD, 1999-2001) did a postdoc with Professor N. Simpkins (Notingham).
Dr J. -B. Guillermin (PhD, 1999-2001) did a postdoc with Professor P. Grieco (Montana, US).
Dr David House (postdoc, 2000-2002) went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr Catherine Headley (PhD, 1999-2002) did a postdoc wth Dr. S. Marsden (Leeds).
Dr James Logan (PhD, 1999-2002) went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Almac Sciences Limited.
Dr Laura Mace (D.Phil, 2000-2003) did a postdoc with Professor J. White (Oregon State University, US) and then worked as a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Tonbridge).
Dr Peter Johnson (D.Phil, 2000-2003) did a postdoc with Professor V. Rawal (University of Chicago) and went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with VastOx (Oxford).
Dr F. Turner (D.Phil, 2000-2003) went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Ferring Ltd (Southampton) .
Dr David Carbery (postdoc 2003) did another postdoc with Alan Armstrong (Imperial College) and went on to be a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Bath.
Dr R. Pye (postdoc 2002-2004) is currently a medicinal organic chemist with VastOx (Oxford).
Dr H. Sintim (postdoc 2002-2004) did a postdoc with Eric Kool (Stanford) and went on to be an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Maryland (US).
Dr Sam Butterworth (DPhil, 2001-2004) is currently a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Graeme Freestone (DPhil, 2001-2004) went on to be a postdoc with K. C. Nicolaou (Scripps, California).
Dr Peter Turner (DPhil, 2002-2005) went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage).
Dr Alan Ironmonger (postdoc 2005-06) went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Tonbridge).
Dr Caroline Rigby (DPhil 2002-2005) went on to be a research chemist at Peakdale Molecular.
Dr Majid Chughtai (DPhil 2002-2005) went on to work for Shell as a research chemist.
Dr Robert Harris (DPhil 2003-2006) went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage).
Dr Dale Johnson (DPhil 2003-2006) went on to be a medicinal chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Harlow).
Dr Paolo Innocenti (postdoc 2006-2007) went on to be a research chemist at Dextra.
Dr Carole Bataille (postdoc 2005-2007) did a postdoc in Prof. Steve Davies's group (Oxford).
Dr Gwydion Churchill (posdoc 2005-2007) went on to be a Process Chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Fátima Churruca (postdoc 2005-2007)
Dr David Klauber (DPhil 2004-2007) went on to be a process research chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Rhian Thomas (DPhil 2004-2007) went on to be a postdoc in Dr Martin Smith's group (Oxford).
Dr Farrah Bhatti (DPhil 2004-2007) went on to work for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Matthew Cheeseman (2006-2008) went on to be a medicinal chemist with the Institute of Cancer Research (Sutton)
Dr Lisa Fishlock (DPhil 2005-2008)
Dr Irene Walz (postdoc 2007-2008)
Dr Maria-Héléna Gonçalves-Farbos (postdoc 2008-2009)
Professor Luiz Claudio Barbosa (sabbatical visitor 2008-2009) Contact Details: Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), 36570-000 Viçosa - MG - Brazil; email - lcab@ufv.br.
Dr Neil Kershaw (postdoc 2006-2009)
Dr Oliver Williams (DPhl 2005-2008) went on to be a chemist for BP Fuel and Lubricant Technology (Pangbourne).
Dr Pete Lindsay-Scott (DPhil 2006-2009) did a postdoc with K. C. Nicolau and went on to be a medicinal chemist at Lilly.
Dr Tim O'Riordan (DPhil 2006-2009) did a postdoc with A. G. M. Barrett and went on to be a medicinal chemist at Syngenta.
Dr Aida Flores (2007-2010) went on to be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Instituto de Química Médica, CSIC, Madrid.
Dr Ptoton Mnangat (2006-2009)
Dr John Bower (2008-2010) went on to be a Royal Society University Reseach Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Dr Manuel Peifer (2009-2010) went on to be a postdoc at Princeton.
Dr Gráinne Hargaden (2007-2010) went on to be a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Dr Jess Kershaw (2006-2010) went on to be a patent attorney with Carpmaels and Ransford, London.
Dr Adam Lacy (2008-2011) did a Postdoc at ETH, Zurich.
Dr Cedric Callens (2008-2011) worked as a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research
Dr Mikhail Kabesov (2008-2011) went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Loughborough
Dr Stefanie Mesch (2010-2011) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Novartis
Dr Matthew Connolly (2008-2011) went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield
Dr José Basutto (2008-2011) went on to be a postdoc at the University of Canberra.
Dr Paul Winship (2007-2011) went on to be a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London
Dr Emma Wallace (2007-2011) went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford
Dr Ali Jahanshahi (2007-2012) went on to be an Industry liaison officer at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Dr Kirsty Luscombe (2009-2012) went on to be a Development Technologist Infineum, Abingdon
Dr Christian Winter (postdoc, 2010-2012) went on to be a research scientist (crop protection) with BASF, Germany
Dr Radoslaw Lipinski (PhD, 2008-2012) went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin
Dr Akshat Rathi (PhD, 2008-2013) went on to be the Science and Technology editor for The Conversation
Dr Rob Pullin (postdoc, 2011-2013) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Vertex Pharmaceutical
Dr Louis Chan (postdoc, 2011-2013) went on to be a postdoctoral researcher in the Balasubramanian group at the University of Cambridge
Dr Ben Pilgrim (part II and DPhil, 2008-2013) went on to do a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Chris Jones (postdoc, 2009-2013) went on to be a research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.
Dr Mike Tucker (part II and DPhil, 2008-2013) went on to be a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London
Dr David Baker (DPhil, 2010-2014)
Dr Leo Hardegger (postdoc, 2013-2014) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Novartis
Dr Anne Kornahrens (DPhil, 2011-2014) returned to Scripps, San Diego, to complete her Skaggs/Oxford DPhil/PhD programme
Lena Rakers (Visiting Student) returned to the University of Münster to complete her Masters and PhD programmes
Dr Darren Poole (part II and DPhil, 2009-2014) went on to be a medicinal chemist at GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Matthew Tatton (DPhil, 2010-2014) went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at Syngenta
Dr Anatol Spork (postdoc, 2013-2015) went on to be a trainee patent lawyer with Uexkell & Stolberg.
Dr Alice Gatland (part II and DPhil, 2010-2015) went on to be a medicinal chemist for Karus Therapeutics, Abingdon
Dr Di Shen (DPhil, 2011-2015)
Jacqueline Habegger (DPhil, 2011-2015)
Dr Ekaterina Melikhova (DPhil, 2012-2016) went on to be a medicinal chemist CatSci.
Dr Rosimeire Coura Barcelos (postdoc, 2014-2015)
Dr Xuezheng Yang (DPhil 2011-2016) went on to be a synthetic chemist at Peakdale Molecular.
Dr Yifan Liu (DPhil 2011-2016) went on to be a strategy manager at Country Garden Properties (Hong Kong) Ltd
Dr Harish Potukuchi (postdoc, 2013-2016) went on to be a scientific advisor in New Delhi.
Dr Johannes Walker (DPhil, 2013-2017) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Martin Oestreich in Berlin.
Dr Ahria Roushanbakhti (DPhil, 2013-2017) went on to be a trader at Onyx Commodities.
Dr Simon Werrel (DPhil, 2013-2017) went on to be a chemist at BASF.
Dr Sandra Balcells Garcia (DPhil, 2013-2017) went on to be a process chemist at Farmhispania.
Dr Henrique Esteves (DPhil, 2013-2017) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Stephen Buchwald at MIT.
Dr Ignacio Colomer (postdoc 2014-2016) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Stephen Fletcher at the University of Oxford.
Dr James Frost (postdoc 2014-2017) went on to be a medicinal chemist at UCB.
Dr Harry Shirley (postdoc 2016-2018) went on to be a editorial development advisor at Nature publishing.
Dr Chris Delaforce (DPhil, 2014-2018) went on to be a data scientist at The Happiness Index.
Dr Melodie Richardson (DPhil, 2014-2018) went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Mewburn Ellis.
Dr Choon Boon Cheong (DPhil, 2014-2018) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Robert Griffin at MIT.
Dr Maria Koyioni (postdoc 2017-2018) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Piotr Kaszynski at the University of Lodz, Poland.
Dr Anna Chamberlain (DPhil, 2015-2019) went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Kilburn & Strode.
Dr Simon Wuebbolt (postdoc 2018-2019) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Vertex.
Dr Alexandru Grozavu (DPhil, 2015-2019) went on to be a postdoc with Prof Veronique Gouverneur.
Dr Wasim Akhtar (DPhil and postdoc, 2014-2019) went on to be an Analyst at Kraft Heinz Company.
Dr Hamish Hepburn (postdoc 2017-2020) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Evotec.
Dr Yuxiang Zhu (DPhil 2016-2020) went on to be a postdoc with Prof John Bower.
Dr Timothy Kwok (DPhil 2016-2020) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Astex.
Dr Maxwell Haughey (DPhil 2016-2020) went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Carpmaels & Ransford.
Dr Chris Hall (DPhil 2016-2020) went on to be a trainee patent attorney with Elkington + Fife.
Dr Oskar Hoff (
DPhil 2016-2020) went on to be a medicinal chemist at Celeris.
Dr Marvin Kischkewitz
(postdoc 2020-2021) went on to be a medicinal chemist at LANXESS.
Dr Roly Armstrong (postdoc 2017-2021) went on to be a Lecturer in Chemistry at Newcastle University.
Dr Glenn Archibald (postdoc 2015-2021) went on to be an editorial assistant.
Dr Lewis Smith (DPhil 2018-2022) went on to be a trainee patent attorney with Elkington + Fife.
Dr Nicolas Kratena (postdoc 2020-2022) went on to be a Research Fellow at TU Wien
Here are some photos of some previous members in case you wanted to see what they look like!
Postdoctoral Researchers
Stacks Image 34
Dr Andrew Calabrese (1999 - 2001)
Stacks Image 39
Dr David House (2000 - 2002)
Stacks Image 44
Dr Herman Sintim (2002 – 2004)
Stacks Image 49
Dr Richard Pye (2002 - 2004)
Stacks Image 54
Dr David Carberry (2003)
Stacks Image 60
Dr Alan Ironmonger (2005 - 2006)
Stacks Image 65
Dr Paolo Innocenti (2006 - 2007)
Stacks Image 70
Dr Fátima Churruca (2005-2007)
Stacks Image 75
Dr Gwydion Churchill (2005 - 2007)
Stacks Image 80
Dr Carole Bataille (2005 - 2007)
Stacks Image 86
Dr Matthew Cheeseman (2006-2008)
Stacks Image 91
Dr Irene Walz (2007-2008)  
Stacks Image 96
Dr Neil Kershaw (2006-2009)  
Stacks Image 101
Prof. Luiz Claudio A. Barbosa (Academic Visitor 2008-2009)
Stacks Image 106
Dr Maria-Héléna Gonçalves-Farbos (2008-2009)
Stacks Image 112
Dr Aida Flores (2007-2010)
Stacks Image 117
Dr John Bower (2008-2010)
Stacks Image 122
Professor Bill Malachowski (Academic Visitor, 2011)
Stacks Image 127
Dr Gráinne Hargaden (2007-2010)
Stacks Image 132
Dr Manuel Peifer (2009-2010)
Stacks Image 138
Dr Mikhail Kabesov (2008-2011)
Stacks Image 143
Dr Stefanie Mesch (2010-2011)
Stacks Image 148
Dr Louis Chan (2011-2013)
Stacks Image 153
Dr Rob Pullin (2011-2013)
Stacks Image 158
Dr Christian Winter (2010-2012)
Stacks Image 164
Dr Chris Jones (2009-2013)
Stacks Image 169
Dr Leo Hardegger (2013-2014)
Stacks Image 174
Dr Harish Potukuchi (2013-2016)
Stacks Image 179
Dr Rosimeire Coura Barcelos (2014-2015)
Stacks Image 184
Dr Anatol Spork (2013-2015)
Stacks Image 190
Dr Ignacio Colomer (2014-2016)
Stacks Image 655
Dr James Frost (2014-2017)
Stacks Image 869
Dr Simon Wuebbolt (2018-2019)
Stacks Image 889
Dr Harry Shirley (2016-2018)
Stacks Image 653
Dr Maria Koyioni (2017-2018)
Stacks Image 938
Dr Hamish Hepburn (2017-2020)
Stacks Image 943
Dr Marvin Kischkewitz (2020-2021)
Stacks Image 953
Dr Nicolas Kratena (2020-2022)
Stacks Image 958
Dr Roly Armstrong (2017-2021)
PhD and DPhil
Stacks Image 204
Dr Laura Mace (2000 - 2003)
Stacks Image 209
Dr Peter Johnson (2000 - 2003)
Stacks Image 214
Dr Sam Butterworth (2001 - 2004)
Stacks Image 219
Dr Leena Sisangia (2000 - 2003)
Stacks Image 224
Dr Felicity Turner (2000 - 2003)
Stacks Image 230
Dr John Fisher (2001 - 2004)
Stacks Image 235
Dr Graeme Freestone (2001 - 2004)
Stacks Image 240
Dr Caroline Rigby (2002 - 2005)
Stacks Image 245
Dr Allan Orr (2002 - 2005)
Stacks Image 250
Dr Majid Chughtai (2002 - 2005)
Stacks Image 256
Dr Pete Turner (2002 - 2005)
Stacks Image 261
Dr Jessica Chiu (2003 - 2006)
Stacks Image 266
Dr Carla Rosa (2003 - 2006)
Stacks Image 271
Dr Dale Johnson (2003 - 2006)
Stacks Image 276
Dr Rob Harris (2003 - 2006)
Stacks Image 282
Dr Emilie Rossignol (2003 - 2006)
Stacks Image 287
Dr David Klauber (2004 - 2007)
Stacks Image 292
Dr Farrah Bhatti (2004-2007)
Stacks Image 297
Dr Rhian Thomas (2004 - 2007)
Stacks Image 302
Dr Katherine Wheelhouse (2004 - 2007)
Stacks Image 308
Dr Lisa Fishlock (2005-2008)
Stacks Image 313
Dr Oliver Williams (2005-2008)
Stacks Image 318
Dr Ptoton Mnangat (2007-2010)
Stacks Image 323
Dr Tim O'Riordan (2006-2009)
Stacks Image 328
Dr Pete Lindsay-Scott (2006-2009)
Stacks Image 334
Dr Jess Keshaw (2006-2010)
Stacks Image 339
Dr Adam Lacy (2008-2011)
Stacks Image 344
Dr José Basutto (2008-2011)
Stacks Image 349
Dr Cedric Callens (2008-2011)
Stacks Image 354
Dr Matthew Connolly (2008-2011)
Stacks Image 360
Dr Paul Winship (2007-2011)
Stacks Image 365
Dr Emma Wallace (2007-2011)
Stacks Image 370
Dr Radoslaw Lipinski (2008-2012)
Stacks Image 375
Dr Kirsty Luscombe (2009-2012)  
Stacks Image 380
Dr Ali Jahanshahi (2007-2012)
Stacks Image 386
Dr Akshat Rathi (2008-2013)
Stacks Image 391
Dr Ben Pilgrim (2009-2013)
Stacks Image 396
Dr Anne Kornahrens (2011-2014)
Stacks Image 401
Dr David Baker (2010-2014)
Stacks Image 406
Dr Michael Tucker (2009-2013)
Stacks Image 412
Dr Darren Poole (2009-2014)
Stacks Image 417
Dr Matthew Tatton (2010-2014)
Stacks Image 422
Dr Ekaterina Melikhova (2012-2016)
Stacks Image 427
Dr Di Shen (2011-2015)
Stacks Image 432
Dr Alice Gatland (2010-2015)
Stacks Image 438
Jaqueline Habegger (2011-2015)
Stacks Image 443
Dr Xuezheng Yang (2011-2016)
Stacks Image 448
Dr Ahria Roushanbakhti
(2013-2017)
Stacks Image 451
Dr Johannes Walker
(2012-2017)
Stacks Image 454
Dr Yifan Liu (2011-2016)
Stacks Image 686
Dr Henrique Esteves
(2013-2017)
Stacks Image 691
Dr Sandra Balcells Garcia
(2013-2017)
Stacks Image 696
Dr Choon Boon Cheong
(2014-2018)
Stacks Image 699
Dr Melodie Richardson
(2014-2018)
Stacks Image 707
Dr Simon Werrel (2013-2017)
Stacks Image 725
Dr Chris Delaforce (2014-2018)
Stacks Image 891
Dr Anna Chamberlain (2015-2019)
Stacks Image 716
Dr Yuxiang (Daniel) Zhu (2015-2020)
Stacks Image 897
Dr Alex Grozavu (2015-2019)
Stacks Image 719
Dr Wasim Akhtar
(2014-2019)
Stacks Image 910
Dr Max Haughey (2015-2020)
Stacks Image 915
Dr Timothy Kwok (2016-2020)
Stacks Image 920
Dr Lewis Smith (2018-2022)
Stacks Image 923
Dr Oskar Hoff (2016-2021)
Stacks Image 928
Dr Chris Hall (2016-2021)
Part II
Stacks Image 462
Will Nieuwenhuys (2002 - 2003)
Stacks Image 467
Jason Rodrigues (2003 - 2004)
Stacks Image 472
Jen Thomson (2004 - 2005)
Stacks Image 477
Dave Gubb (2004 - 2005)
Stacks Image 482
Rob Davenport (2004 - 2005)
Stacks Image 488
Stuart Gordon (2004 – 2005)
Stacks Image 493
Johannes Kloesges (2005 - 2006)
Stacks Image 498
Alex Scott-Simons (2007-2008)
Stacks Image 503
Jacob Bush (2007-2008)
Stacks Image 508
Peter Wright (2006 - 2007)
Stacks Image 514
Mark Binley (2008-2009)
Stacks Image 519
Louise Walport (2008-2009)
Stacks Image 524
Nicholas Race (2009-2010)
Stacks Image 529
Michael O'Hagan (2009-2010)
Stacks Image 534
Constanze Neumann (2009-2010)
Stacks Image 540
Rosa Cookson (2010-2011)
Stacks Image 545
Kathryn Feeney (2010-2011)
Stacks Image 550
Geraint Jones (2011-2012)
Stacks Image 555
Dominic Affron (2011-2012)
Stacks Image 560
David Nzuruba (2010-2011)
Stacks Image 566
James Neuhaus (2011-2012)
Stacks Image 571
Wen Jie Ong (2011-2012)
Stacks Image 576
Greogory Craven (2012-2013)
Stacks Image 581
David Ashmore (2012-2013)
Stacks Image 586
Emily Summerton (2011-2012)
Stacks Image 592
Charlie McTernan (2012-2013)
Stacks Image 597
Ruchuta Nodd Ardkhean (2013-2014)
Stacks Image 602
Duncan Lindsey (2013-2014)
Stacks Image 607
Camilla Shotton (2013-2014)
Stacks Image 612
Khalil Davis (2013-2014)
Stacks Image 618
Jess Eastwood (2014-2015)
Stacks Image 623
Ziga Perko (2014-2015)
Stacks Image 628
Jack Hoffman (2015-2016)
Stacks Image 633
Niall Moon (2014-2015)
Stacks Image 638
Matt Reeves (2014-2015)
Stacks Image 805
Alex Kelly (2016-2017)
Stacks Image 807
Ben Williams (2016-2017)
Stacks Image 851
Kieran Paterson (2017-2018)
Stacks Image 849
Filip Muncan (2017-2018)
Stacks Image 809
Joe Emsley (2016-2017)
Stacks Image 853
Philip Smith (2017-2018)
Stacks Image 855
Brian Lam (2017-2018)
Stacks Image 969
Joe Anderson (2019-2020)
Stacks Image 881
Indi Marriott (2018-2019)
Stacks Image 877
Benjamin Reeves (2018-2019)
Stacks Image 964
Maxym Kadarauch (2019-2020)
Stacks Image 995
Elisa Yonglin Lai (2020-2021)
Stacks Image 974
Teddy Smith (2021-2022)
Stacks Image 979
Jane Ngarmnil (2021-2022)
Stacks Image 984
Teodor Razvan Mirescu (2020-2021)