Anna graduated from the University of Nottingham with a PhD in Supramolecular Chemistry (2011). After PDRA positions in porphyrins and molecular materials Anna was appointed as a Royal Society-EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in 2016 and a RS URF in 2021. She was promoted to a Personal Chair in Oct 22. Her research interests span flow chemistry, materials science, supramolecular self-assembly, and enabling technology for process control.

Dr Firdaus Parveen received her Master's degree in Chemistry (2011) and Doctorate in Chemical Engineering (2017) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. She was awarded a prestigious Shastri Indo Canadian research award in 2017 to work at USASK, Canada. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor at University of Delhi, India from 2017-18. She joined Imperial College of London as Research Associate in 2019 and worked with Prof Mimi Hii (ICL), Prof Klaus (ICL) and Prof J. Blacker (Leeds). She has gained advanced experience of continuous flow chemistry, building flow set ups, robotic reactions, liquid and gas phase reactions, heterogenous catalysis, catalysts development and their characterization, high and low pressure reactions. She believes in work life balance and would like to visit new places and explore nature. 

Alex completed his MChem with a Year in Industry (GSK) at the University of Sussex (2011) and graduated from Imperial College London with a PhD in Organic Chemistry (2018). His first PDRA position was in the group of Dr Marcus Baumann at University College Dublin, working in collaboration with Pfizer Ireland to explore the use of flow chemistry in API synthesis. Currently he is working as a PDRA in the Slater group, further expanding on the use of new and continuous technologies in chemistry.

Megan will join us for a position between the Cooper and Slater Groups on porous substrates for challenging separations in Sept 2023. Welcome back!

Abbie completed her MChem at the University of Liverpool, where her final year project focussed on the synthesis of functionalised piperazines as β-turn mimetics. Her PhD (2023), funded by the Royal Society and co-supervised by Dr Becky Greenaway and Prof Slater, focussed on the synthesis of functionalised imine macrocycles and exploring how enabling technologies can be used to refine and control complicated dynamic mixtures. Now, Abbie has taken up a position joint between the Slater and Cooper Groups on the synthesis of porous substrates for challenging separations.

Prachi completed her master's in Chemistry from Delhi, India, in 2015. Soon after she joined PhD program at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Pune, India where she worked on synthesis and redox study of antiaromatic macrocycles under the guidance of Prof. V.G. Anand and received her degree in 2022. During her final year of PhD. she worked as an exchange student in Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs’s research group at Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ)-Tarragona, Spain. Afterwards she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for five months at ESPCI, Paris. Currently she is working on cage chemistry in Slater group. In her spare time, she loves to experiment with her cooking or travel places. 

Liqun joined as  PDRA in 2024 - Welcome!

'Nick completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Keele University in 2019. Nick then moved to Liverpool to complete his MSc in chemical sciences where his project looked the synthesis of PROTACs for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. He is now studying a PhD in 'process structure function relationships for supramolecular materials discovery' supervised by Dr Anna Slater and co-supervised by Dr Samantha Chong.

Patrycja completed her MChem at University of Liverpool in 2018 designing Python code for structural optimisation of crystal structures. During her study she undertook an industrial placement at Randox where she was involved in development of an assay reagent kit. After a year in the sales and marketing team at Manchester Organics she joined the Slater group in 2019. Now she is excited to be working on her PhD in “Non-thermal plasmas in size-controlled bubbles: from fundamental understanding to control”, jointly supervised by Dr James Walsh and Dr Timothy Easun.

Caitlin joined us in October 2021 for her PhD, supervised by Prof Andy Cooper and Anna and funded via an ERC Synergy Grant: Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials (ADAM), in October 2021. Prior to her PhD she spent a year at Smithers as an LC-MS analyst before returning to the University of Liverpool.

Aran will join the group as a PhD student in Jan 2024. Welcome!

Harvey graduated in 2023 from the University of Liverpool with an MCHEM, receiving the LCC distinction award for his final year project presentation. Much of the research undertaken by Harvey to date has centred around flow chemistry, with a total of two summer studentships and both his third- and fourth-year projects working in this exciting area of cutting-edge chemistry. He has recently developed a strong interest in the deployment of enabling technologies, and machine learning in the lab, and aims to apply these in the pursuit of synthesising novel macrocyclic targets and delivering more sustainable chemical processes. 

Harvey’s PhD commenced in Oct 2023 within the Slater group and will be co-supervised by Prof Andy Cooper (Liverpool) and Prof Richard Bourne (Leeds). He has two main goals, the development of novel techniques for self-optimised flow chemistry, and testing and cataloguing the properties and potential applications of supramolecular systems.  

Samara joined the group as an MChem student in 2023/24.

​Evanthe is completing the final year of her MChem with Research in Industry at the University of Liverpool. During her industrial placement working at Pfizer she looked at the impact of drug product formulation on the coning phenomenon present in dissolution testing, helping to curate a formulation-based predictive model. Currently she is conducting her master project in the Slater group, looking at tuning flow regimes to impact crystallisation of reversible molecular materials.

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