We are based in the GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry, a state-of-the-art research facility located on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham. Our group consists of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate students funded by research councils, charities and the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
Current Group (2018 Summer Retreat in the Peak District)
Principal Investigator:
Dr Ross Denton
Ross began his research career at The University of Nottingham, carrying out his PhD studies with Professor Jim Anderson. Following the completion of his doctoral research he moved to The Scripps Research Institute in California as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor K.C. Nicolaou. Returning to the UK he carried out further postdoctoral studies with Professor Steven Ley, CBE, FRS at Cambridge University. He returned to Nottingham to begin his independent research career in 2008 as a fixed term Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. In 2009 he was appointed to a Lectureship in Organic Chemistry was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016.
Postdoctoral Research Associates:
Dr Valentin Magne (funded by EPSRC grant EP/R030693/1)
PhD students:
Rebecca Rowles – PhD student (joint project with Prof. Chris Hayes CASE collaboration with AstraZeneca)
Dean Wheeler – PhD student (iCASE collaboration with Syngenta)
Ted Thornton – PhD student (CASE collaboration with AstraZeneca)
Emma Stoll – PhD student (CASE collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline)
Robert Arnold – PhD student
Alex Scollan – PhD student
Rhydian Beddoe – PhD student (CDT collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline)
Natalie Charlesworth – PhD student (CASE collaboration with AstraZeneca)
James Wilson – PhD student (CDT collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline)
Ben Scrafield – PhD student (CDT)
Nick Atkinson – PhD student (CASE collaboration with AstraZeneca)
Former Group Members click here for our Facebook group
Jack Sanders, MSci project student
Paige Rist, MSci project student – now PhD student at Birmingham
Rhona Savin – MSci project student – now CDT PhD student here at Nottingham
Jose Manuel, visiting postdoctoral research associate from Cadiz, Spain
Liam Donnelly, summer student
Paige Rist, summer student
Dr Adam Fearnley, PhD student – now at Charnwood Molecular
Dr Charlotte Chapman, PhD student
Dr Andrew Shannon-Little, PhD student
Adam Dernie, MSci project student
Declan Summers, MSci project student – now PhD student at GSK/Strathclyde
Radmila Faizova, MSci project student – now PhD student
Amy Guest, MSci project student
Jake Hiom, MSci project student
Lucy Wilson, Pfizer Neusentis Summer Student – now PhD student at Imperial College London
Sam Quinn, Pfizer Neusentis Summer Student – now PhD student here at Nottingham
Petra Lindovska, 4th Year Project Student and Nuffield Bursary Summer Student – now PhD student at M.I.T. USA.
Joshua Moore, 4th Year Project Student – now Research Scientist at Croda.
Larry Xiechao Gui, 4th Year Project Student and Nuffield Bursary Summer Student
Rasa Mutore, 4th Year Project Student
Adria M. Galofre, Erasmus Student, now PhD student
Beatrice Adeniran, 4th Year Project Student – now PhD student with Prof. Robert Makoya (Nottingham)
Dr James Scragg, 4th Year Project Student and PhD Student – now teaching Chemistry
Dr Jie An, PhD Student – now an academic at China Agricultural University
Samuel Miller, 4th Year Project Student – now PhD student with Prof. Mike George and Martyn Poliakoff (Nottingham)
Mark Jackson, 4th Year Project Student and PhD student (collaboration with Prof. Steve Liddle)
Dr Xiaoping Tang, PDRA – now PDRA with Prof. Richard Whitby at Southampton
Dr Jan Saska, 4th Year Project Student, PhD student and PDRA – now PDRA with Prof. Mark Mascal at U.C. Davis, California
Dr James Cuthbertson, PDRA – now a Royal Society University Research Fellow here in the School of Chemistry
Dr Keith Andrews, PhD student and PDRA – now a PDRA with Prof. Harry Anderson at Oxford
Harry Whan, 4th year MSci student
Kirsty Atkins, 4th year MSci student
Elliot Scott, 4th year MSci student
Callum Moir – 4th year MSci student
Sarah Butler – 4th year MSci student
Shusha Mahdy – 4th year MSci student
Lina Sytchenko – 4th year MSci student
