People
Anna Slater https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1435-4331
PI, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer
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. Her research interests span flow chemistry, materials science, supramolecular self-assembly, and enabling technology for process control.
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Dr Firdaus Parveen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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.
Dr Alex Padgham
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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.
Dr Moreshwar Chaudhari
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Chaudhari will join us for a PDRA position in September. Welcome!
Henry Morris
Postgraduate Research Associate
Henry completed his four year MChem at the University of Leicester, which included a placement year at Hexcel Composites. Henry’s PhD, funded by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, compares continuous flow and batch methodologies for a range of macrocyclic and organic cage syntheses (2021). He is currently undertaking a PGRA role in collaboration with Victrex plc focusing on process chemistry using continuous flow methods, supported by an EPSRC IAA Award.
Abbie Scholes
Postgraduate Researcher
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, funded by the Royal Society and co-supervised by Dr Becky Greenaway, focusses on the synthesis of functionalised imine macrocycles and exploring how enabling technologies can be used to refine and control complicated dynamic mixtures.
Patrycja Roskowska
Postgraduate Reseacher
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.
Megan Carr
Postgraduate Researcher
Megan completed her MChem degree at the University of Liverpool. Her 3rd and 4th year projects involved novel polymer synthesis in the Rannard group. She also completed an Analytical Chemistry Trust funded summer studentship studying 2D NMR for pka measurements in 2017 with Dr Jonathan Iggo. Her PhD, co-supervised by Prof Steve Rannard, is looking at polymer synthesis under continuous flow conditions using both free radical and controlled radical polymerisation methods with the intent to use these materials in flow assisted nanoparticle production.
Nicholas Watson
Postgraduate Researcher
'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.
Caitlin Shields
Postgraduate Researcher
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.
Charlotte Hutchison
MSc Research Student
Charlotte completed her 3 year BSc in medicinal chemistry in June 2021 where her final year project involved the synthesis of piperidin-2-one derivatives and their application in antibacterial treatment.
She is currently completing her PGSC003 research project focusing on flow synthesis of macrocycles as part of her MSc programme.
Future positions possible
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Summer UG placements
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