Present Group Members
Ramsey Memorial Fellow
Bao Nguyen
2011-
Bao Nguyen has been a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London since October 2010. He is working on activation of carbon dioxide for conversion into high value chemicals. His research interests include understanding and applying novel concepts in catalysis, using a wide range of state-of-the-art physical and analytical techniques. Bao did his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Dr John M. Brown. He then moved to Dr Michael C. Willis' group, where he developed the first Pd-catalysed coupling reaction employing sulfur dioxide. Before taking up his first independent position, he joined Dr Mimi Hii's group at Imperial College London as a post-doc, working to delineate the nature of the palladium species in different catalytic reactions and developing separation methods for these species. Nguyen group website: Nguyen group
PhD Students
Jared Marklew
2009-
Jared did his undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield working in Ahmed Iraqi's group on the synthesis of carbazole based conjugated polymers for use in photovoltaic cells. As part of his degree he undertook an industrial placement at Pfizer pharmaceuticals and is now undertaking a PhD in the Braddock group with a CASE award from AstraZeneca (Arrow Therapeutics). Jared has developed methods for the generation of enantiomerically pure bromonium ions. Jared is enjoying the concert scene in London and likes to spend some time practicing playing his guitar.
- "Enantiospecific bromonium ion generation and intramolecular capture: a model system for asymmetric bromonium ion-induced polyene cyclisations" - DOI
Alex Jones
2010-
Alex did his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University. For his final year he worked with Steven Ley on the development of polymer supported oxidising agents. He is now undertaking a PhD with Chris Braddock and Alan Armstrong, working on reaction kinetics of halogenation reactions. He likes going to the cinema, going out with friends and reading.
Lauriane Buisson
2010-
Lauriane graduated from CPE Lyon, in 2010, with a Master's degree. She carried out her Master's project in the group of O. Piva, at the University Lyon 1, working on the synthesis of selective ligands of 5-HT7 receptors for medical imaging. She started her PhD in October 2010 under the joined supervision of Dr Braddock and Professor Barrett, working on a medicinal chemistry project. She really enjoys living in London, and particularly likes travelling and meeting people from around the world.
James Campbell
2010-
James joins the group jointly co-supervised with Dr Rob Davies (chemistry) and Professor Andrew Livingston (chemical engineering).
Simon Sung
2011-
Simon recently completed his undergraduate degree at Imperial College. As part of his degree, he was undertook an industrial placement at the Home Office Scientific Development Branch. Under the supervision of James Wilton-Ely, he worked towards the synthesis of multimetallic MRI contrast agents for his final year MSci project. Simon joins the group co-supervised with Dr Rob Davies and Professor Alan Armstrong, working on understanding aspects of copper catalysed reactions. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling and is a keen photographer.
Shaun Wood
2012-
Shaun joins the group jointly co-supervised with Dr Rob Davies and Professor Alan Armstrong.
MRes Students
Daniel Perks
2011-
Daniel joins the group as a MRes student on the Drug Discovery & Development course. Daniel graduated from Durham University with a Masters in Chemistry and his final year project was based on novel synthetic methodology for the formation of nucleotide pyrophosphates with Dr.David Hodgson. His project this year focusses on the development of novel conjugates for use in the treatment of cholangiocarcinomas, jointly supervised with Duncan Spalding. He enjoys going out with friends and music, playing the clarinetand flute in local orchestras and wind bands.