Group members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Mark P. Barrow
Reader - Associate Professor
CChem MRSC
Present group members
- Benedict Gannon
PhD student and past MChem project student - Sam Mutto
PhD student and past MChem project student - Haokai Wang
PhD student and past ASI project student - Sanugi Dassanayake
PhD student and past MChem project student - Ollie Smith
Incoming PhD student and past ASI project student - Elliot Newman
Incoming MChem project student - Evelyn Winton
Incoming MChem project student
Past group members
- Latifa Alostad
Past PhD student - Dr. Rory Downham
Past PhD student - Dr. Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
Past visitor as a PhD student, then PDRA, and then Senior Research Fellow - Dr. Hugh Jones
Past PhD student and MChem project student - Dr. Mary Thomas
Past PhD student and MAS CDT project student - Dr. Rémy Gavard
Past PhD student and MAS CDT project student
Prizes awarded to group members
2026: EnvChem2026 Chemistry of the Whole Environment conference, best early career scientist talk: Benedict Gannon
2026: Runner-up PhD student talk at Postgraduate Symposium: Samuel Mutto
2025: B. N. Green Prize for best flash oral talk at annual British Mass Spectrometry Society conference: Samuel Mutto
2025: Commendation for the Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine PhD Thesis Prize: Rory Downham
2025: Commendation from the Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine for his paper on "Tracking the history of polycyclic aromatic compounds in London through a River Thames sediment core and ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry:" Rory Downham
2025: Runner-up PhD student poster (“The Application of Bitumen in Ancient Mesopotamia”) at Postgraduate Symposium: Samuel Mutto
2022: Best PhD student talk at CENTA meeting: Benedict Gannon
2021: Best PhD student talk at Postgraduate Symposium: Hugh E. Jones
2021: PhD student poster at Postgraduate Symposium, honorary mention: Latifa Alostad
2020: Faculty Post-Doctoral Research Prize: Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
2019: Nev Haskins Oral Prize for Early Career Researcher talk at the “Advances in Hyphenated Mass Spectrometry” conference: Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
2018: Barber Prize for best student talk at annual British Mass Spectrometry Society conference: Mary J. Thomas
Past project students (not including those who became PhD students)
- Ajmer Dhillon (MChem student)
- Sophie Richards (URSS student)
- Emily Blackburn (ASI project)
- Ancy Sathi Kumar (ASI project)
- Angus Currie (AS CDT project)
- Michelle Pang (visiting student from Hong Kong)
- Aidan Cheung (URSS student)
- Priya Johal (MChem project)
- Abdulaziz Aljohani (ASI project)
- Georgie Taylor (MChem project)
- Rhian Colton (MChem project)
- Anna Gilbert (MChem project)
- Katie Liddle (MChem project)
- Maddie Dowden (MChem project)
- Will Owles (MChem project)
- Mahsa Aghdas Zadeh (ASI project)
- Hiu Shuen Tse (ASI project)
- Izaak Tyson-Hirst (Masters by research)
- Nick Watson (URSS project)
- Will Owles (URSS project)
- Emily Miles (MChem project)
- Zena Choi (URSS project)
- Natasha Sanjrani (URSS project)
- Tom Moriarty (URSS project)
- Shakiela Begum (MAS CDT mini project)
- Emma Collinge (MChem project)
- James Town (MAS CDT mini project)
- Juan Wei (postdoc project)
- Simona Gherghel (AS:MIT project)
- Holly Chan (AS:MIT project)
- Matthew Griffiths (MChem project)