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Post-doctoral Associates

• Sumanta Banerjee

  

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  Sumanta Banerjee Research Associate (Postdoc)

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  Background

  Sumanta received his PhD in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, (IISER-TVM) India, where he worked on "Synthesis and Reactivity of Cationic Magnesium complexes". Subsequently, he joined Prof. Robert Mulvey's lab at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, as a Research Associate. During his tenure at Strathclyde, he focused on advancing the "Chemistry of Heavy Alkali Metals in Synthesis and Catalysis", aiming to provide sustainable alternatives to transition metal catalysts. Currently, Sumanta's research interests revolve around “Olefin Polymerization Catalysis”, as a member of the Britovsek group at Imperial College London, UK.

Ph. D. Students

• Molly Parry

  

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  Molly Parry 3rd Year PhD Student

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  Molly received her MChem from the University of Edinburgh, with a year abroad at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is currently undertaking a PhD in photocatalytic polymer degradation, also supervised by Dr Maxie Roessler.

• Jiakai Huang

  

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  Jiakai Huang 3rd Year PhD Student

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  Jiakai received his BSc in Chemistry in University of Sheffiled and MRes in Catalyst in Imperial College London, He is currently undertaking a Phd in developing end-functionalised polymeric material with catalytic properties.

• Charlie Parfitt

  

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  Charlie Parfitt 2nd Year PhD Student

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  Charlie has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Manchester. He obtained his MRes from Imperial College London working with Dr Mark Chadwick and Dr Maxie Roessler on the synthesis of paramagnetic chromium pincer complexes. He is now undertaking a PhD, co supervised by Prof Klaus Hellgardt, on the development of high-octane fuels from sustainable feedstocks.

• Sana Haamidah

  

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  Sana Haamidah 1st year PhD Student (CDT)

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  Sana received her MChem from Southampton University where in her final year she undertook a year in industry placement at Diamond Light Source. She is currently working on 3D printed scaffolds for catalytic hydrogenation reactions in flow co-supervised by Dr Billy Wu.

• Conor Crooks

  

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  Conor Crooks 1st year PhD student (CDT)

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  Conor received his MSci from Imperial College London before working on the development of novel psychedelics. He has now returned to Imperial to pursue a PhD focussing on utilising CO2 as a C1 source for industry.

• Junxi Liu

  

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  Junxi Liu 1st year PhD Student

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  Junxi received his BSc. from University College London and MRes in catalysis from Imperial College London. He is currently undertaking a Phd in electrocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion to produce valuable industrial ingredients co-supervised by Prof. Anthony Kucernak.

• Ines Perez Tabarnero

  

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  Ines Perez Tabarnero 1st year PhD Student

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  Ines obtained her MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. After working at Procter and Gamble for a year, she returned to Imperial for a PhD. She received an MRes in Advanced Molecular Synthesis working with Dr. Andy Ashley and Dr. Chris Tighe on Frustrated Lewis Pair catalysed CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. She is currently undertaking a PhD, co-supervised by Dr. Chris Tighe, exploring CO2 hydrogenation and integration with current carbon capture processes.

• Kat Ailles

  

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  Kat Ailles 1st year PhD Student (CDT)

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  Kat received her MChem from the University of York. She is currently undertaking a PhD in designing ethylene oligomerisation catalysts by tracking unpaired electrons and is co-supervised by Dr Mark Chadwick and Dr Maxie Roessler.

MRes Students

• Fidaus Abubakar

  

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  Fidaus Abubakar MRes in Catalysis Student

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  Fidaus received her BSc. from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology before working as the Stock and Quality Control Officer at Quantum Terminals. She is currently working on the electro-catalytic fixing of carbon dioxide into polymers as her main MRes project, co-supervised by Prof. Anthony Kucernak.

• Jiazheng Lu

  

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  Jiazheng Lu MRes in Catalysis Student

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  Jiazheng pursed his bachelor’s degree in chemistry jointly at Dalian University of Technology in China and University of Leicester.  He is now working on new carbon-based catalysts for efficient olefin epoxidation under mild conditions utilizing atmospheric oxygen as his MRes project co-supervised by Prof. Anthony Kucernak.

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