Teaching

UCL Pharmacy

Course Director – MRes in Pharmaceutical Research

Year 1 + 2 Teaching Labs – Core Module; Synthetic Chemistry (practical sessions)

Year 2 – Core Module; Medicines from the Bench to the Clinic, NMR Mass Spectrometry and Compound Characterisation (Lectures and workshop sessions)

MSc – History and Modern Methods in Drug Discovery and Synthesis (Lectures)

Personal Tutor – For students in years 1, 2, 3, 4 and PGT

Project Supervisor – For students on MPharm, MSc and MRes

Cardiff Chemistry

Year 2 – Core Organic Chemistry; Cycles, Heterocycles and Heteroaromatics (10 lectures/workshops, Module Leader)

Year 3 – Core Organic Chemistry; Retrosynthesis (14 lectures/workshops, distance learning module)

Year 4 – Optional Organic Chemistry; Enabling Technologies for Organic Synthesis (8 lectures/workshops)

PGT – MSc in Med. Chem.; Drug Discovery Chemistry (8 lectures/workshops)

PGT – MSc in Med. Chem.; Practical Medicinal Chemistry (3 day lab session. Module Leader)

Tutorials – Across Years 1, 2 and 3; core organic chemistry (5 groups)

Personal Tutor – For students in years 1, 2, 3 (+remote study), 4 and PGT

Project Supervisor – For students on BSc, MChem & MSc

Recognition & Awards

Visiting Professor (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Recipient ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable project

Top 10% of reviewers for Angewandte Chemie

Awarded Most Instructive Leturer 2017/2018

Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2017 (SYNFORM – Young Career Focus)

Invited Article for “Emerging Investigators” themed issue from RSC Reaction Chemistry and Engineering

Invited Article for “Emerging Investigators” themed issue from Green Chemistry

Named as an “Outstanding Reviewer” for Reaction Chemistry and Engineering

Nominated for an Enriching Student Lives Award; ‘Outstanding Doctoral Supervisor’

Nominated for an Enriching Student Lives Award; ‘Most Effective Teacher’

Awarded ‘Lecturer of the Semester’ by Cardiff Chem. Soc.

Sheffield Retrosynthesis Competition, member of winning team (Now ‘National Retrosynthesis Competition’)

Awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship to conduct independent research

Syngenta CASE Lecture Award

Sheffield Retrosynthesis Competition, member of winning team (Now ‘National Retrosynthesis Competition’)

Pfizer Poster Competition Award

Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarship Award

Sheffield Retrosynthesis Competition, member of winning team (Now ‘National Retrosynthesis Competition’)

GSK Industrial Placement Award

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Invited Lectures and Conference Contributions

European School of Medicinal Chemistry (Urbino, Italy) *upcoming*

Syngenta Research Seminar (Jealott’s Hill, UK)

Departmental Seminar, University of Manchester (UK)

Newcastle Mechanochemsitry Symposium II (Newcastle, UK)

Departmental Seminar, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

Hovione Research Seminar (virtual)

Sustainable Chemistry Congress (Hammersmith, UK)

UK Automated Synthesis Forum @ AZ (Macclesfield, UK)

American Chemical Society, GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable @ Vertex (Oxford, UK)

Departmental Seminar, Imperial College London (London, UK)

EU COST Network Mechanochemsitry, Training Workshop (virtual)

EU COST Network Mechanochemsitry, Research Talk (Cagliari, Italy)

Newcastle Mechanochemsitry Symposium (UK)

Emerging Technologies for Organic Chemistry Online Conference

Astra Zeneca Research Seminar (Virtual, UK)

American Chemical Society, GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (Virtual, UK)

Departmental Seminar, University of East Anglia (From home! UK)

SynMet Danish Postgraduate Training Course in Organic Chemistry (from home! UK)

Departmental Seminar, Queens University Belfast (From home! UK)

Flow Chemistry Europe (Cambridge, UK)

GlaxoSmithKline Emerging Academics Symposium (GSK, Stevenage, UK)

Research Seminar on Mechanochemistry for Organic Synthesis (Syngenta, Münchwilen, Switzerland)

Gregynog Synthesis Meeting

Concord College (Acton Burnell)

Mechanochemistry Summer School, LabFact, University of Sussex (UK)

RSC Fluorine Interest Group, University of Southampton (UK)

Research Seminar on Mechanochemistry for Organic Synthesis (Syngenta, UK)

Departmental Seminar, University of Leicester (UK)

Flow Chemistry Conference Europe (Cambridge)

25th SCI Annual Review Meeting, SCI HQ, Belgrave Square (London)

Gregynog Synthesis Meeting

UK Automated Synthesis Forum, AZ, Macclesfield

Concord College (Acton Burnell)

Departmental Research Seminar, University of Leeds (Leeds

Young Chemists 2018 (YC18), (Imperial College)

BioTechne – Flow Chemsitry Workshop (Bristol)

Ecole Thématique Synt_Flux – CNRS (France)

UNICAMP – Cardiff Bilateral Research Kick-off meeting (Campinas, Brazil

Xiamen – Cardiff Bilateral Research Exchange Visit (Xiamen, China)

Concord College (Acton Burnell)

Dial-a-Molecule – Enabling Technologies Meeting – Co-organiser (Loughborough)

Beilstein Open Science Symposium (Rüdesheim, Germany)

Gordon Research Conference, Preclinical Form & Formulation for Drug Discovery (Stowe, VT, USA)

Continuous Flow Processing Workshop (Syngenta, UK)

NiceFlow Workshop (Nice, France)

Flow Chemistry Society Congress (Mumbai, India)

Flow Chemistry Society Congress (Miami, FL, USA)

Cardiff-Unicamp International Meeting (Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil)

Flow Chemistry Workshop for Drug Discovery (Montevideo, Uraguay)

SCI-RSC Continuous Flow Chemistry III, (Robinson College, Cambridge, UK)

Flow Chemistry Society- Flow Chemistry Europe (Magdelene College, Cambridge, UK)

Gregynog (UK)

Mech’Chem’ (Montpellier, France)

Dial a Molecule Annual Meeting, (Warwick, UK)

Sustainable Chemistry Symposium, (Bath, UK)

Dial a Molecule Closed Loop Optimisation, (GSK, Stevenage, UK)

9th RSC-CRSI Joint Symposium, (Pune, India)

IISER-RSC Joint Symposium, (Bhopal, India)

14th Cardiff Chemistry Conference, (Cardiff, UK)

RSC South-West Organic Section Meeting, (Reading, UK)

NaMiBiTech (Ifrane, Morocco)

7th Green Solvents Conference, (Dresden, Germany)

Modern Synthetic Methods in Organofluorine Chemistry, (London, UK)

1st SSPC Conference, (Cork, Ireland)

Dow Chemical Company (Midland MI, USA) visitor

Zing Flow and Microwave Conference (Napa CA, USA)

Daiichi Sankyo (Hiratsuka, Japan)

Mettler Toledo RXE Forum (Tokyo, Japan)

UKASF – United Kingdom Automated Synthesis Forum (Sygnature, BioCity, Nottingham) Cryo-Flow

UKASF – United Kingdom Automated Synthesis Forum (Sygnature, BioCity, Nottingham) Flow-IR

A Celebration of Organic Synthesis (Alderley Park, UK)

1st RSC/SCI Symposium on Continuous Processing, (GSK, Stevenage)

RSC Organic Division Midlands Regional Meeting (Univ. of Leicester)

Syngenta (Goa, India)

J-NOST-5 (IIT Kanpur, India)

Syngenta (Jealott’s Hill, UK)

SCI 20th Graduate Regional Symposium (Univ of Durham)

Pfizer Poster Symposium (Royal Society, London)

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Teaching

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