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Stuart Smith
Postdoctoral researcher (UKRI FLF)
Joined June 2025
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2021-2025 PhD at the University of York (advisor: Prof Ian Fairlamb), including 5 months at AstraZeneca
2016-2021 Master in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, including 1 year at GSK​​
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Aurélien Brion
Postdoctoral researcher (UKRI FLF)
Joined March 2025
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2021-2024 PhD at Université Paris-Saclay (advisor: Dr Géraldine Masson)
2018-2021 MSc in Chemistry and Life Sciences, Paris Sciences et Lettres University
2017-2018 BSc in Chemistry, Paris-Sud University​ ​
Ben Hayward
PhD student (EPSRC DTP scholarship)
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Joined October 2025
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2021-2025 MSc in Chemistry, University of Bath (advisor: Prof. Andrew Johnson)​​
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Joe Berry
PhD student (Durham Doctoral Teaching Fellowship)
Joined October 2025
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2024-2025 MSc by Research at the University of Birmingham (advisor: Dr Richard Grainger)
2022-2023 PGCE in Chemistry
2019-2022 BSc in Chemistry at the University of Birmingham
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Riccardo Parolin
PhD student (EPSRC DTP scholarship)
Joined November 2022
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2022 Erasmus stay at TU Berlin, 5 months (advisor: Prof. Martin Oestreich)
2019-2021 MSc in Industrial Chemistry, Padua University (advisor: Prof. Giulia Licini)
2016-2019 BSc in Industrial Chemistry, Padua University (advisor: Prof. Fernando Formaggio)​
Janvi Jaianti
MChem Student
Joined October 2025
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MDurham University​
Renzo Favaro
Erasmus MChem Student
Joined October 2025
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Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Physique, Electronique (CPE Lyon)
August 2025
CG104 day out June 2025
June 2025
February 2024
November 2022
