Group Members
Group Leaders
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Greg Challis
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Lona Alkhalaf
Assistant Professor |
Research Fellows
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Arun Gupta with
Prof J. Lewandowski
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Fayrouz Elmaddah
DFG Fellow
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James Duncan with
Prof J. Lewandowski
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Daniel Van with
Prof P. Stansfeld
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Tianjie Yuan
Jiangsu Overseas
Visiting Fellow
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Wei Li
CSC Visiting Fellow
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Dries De Ruysscher
Visiting Research
Fellow
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Manasa Bharathwaj
with Prof A. Traven
(Monash University)
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Xinyun Jian
with Prof M. Cryle
(Monash University)
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Chuan Huang
with Prof M. Cryle
(Monash University)
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PhD / MRes / Rotation Students
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Munro Passmore
PhD student
with Dr M. Jenner
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Yu Zhang
PhD Student
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Callum Bullock
PhD Student
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Mabilly Cox
PhD Student
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Afifah Tasnim
PhD Student
with Dr N. Robb
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Adam Hunt
PhD student
with Dr C. Corre
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Matt Pledge
PhD Student
with Prof J. Li
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Emma Coker
PhD student
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Zhijie Yang
Visiting PhD student
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Sarah Sonnenberg
Visiting MSc Student
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Thanura Da Silva
Honours Student
(Monash University)
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Undergraduate Project Students
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Natalie Carbonara
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Alumni
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr Francisco Barona-Gomez - currently Associate Professor, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Netherlands
Dr Sylvie Lautru - currently Group Leader, Microbiology Department, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Dr Lijiang Song - currently Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Xujia Hu - currently Professor, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Nadia Kadi - currently Senior R&D Scientist, Pall Corporation, Portsmouth, UK
Dr Christophe Corre - currently Associate Professor (Reader), School of Life Sciences/Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Daniel Oves-Costales - currently Principal Investigator, Department of Microbiology, Fundacion Medina, Spain
Dr Amael Veyron - currently Coordinateur Pédagogique, Médisup, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), France
Dr Sarah Barry - currently Senior Lecturer in Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, King's College London, UK
Dr Orestis Lazos - currently Analyst, PRMA Consulting Ltd, Greece
Dr Zdenek Kamenik - currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Dr Paulina Sydor - currently Molecular Biology Team Leader, Pure Biologics S.A., Wrocław, Poland
Dr Yuki Inahashi - currently Lecturer, Ōmura Satoshi Memorial Institute, Kitasato University, Japan
Dr Matias Rey-Corizo - currently a freelance medical writer in Spain
Dr Vincent Poon - currently Senior Molecular Biologist and Recombinant Technologies Group Leader at Hypha Discovery, UK
Dr Emzo de Los Santos - currently at UCB, UK; UKRI Future Leader Fellow at Imperial College London, UK from Autumn 2022
Dr Joleen Masschelein - currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, KU Leuven and Group Leader, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium
Dr Matthew Jenner - currently Assistant Professor of Biological Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Slawek Potocki - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wrocław University, Poland
Dr Daniel Griffiths - currently Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Dr Chang-An Geng - currently Assistant Professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Guowei Wang - currently Lecturer, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Dr Daniel Zabala-Alvarez - currently Principal Investigator in Drug Discovery, Faes Farma, Spain
Dr Simone Kosol - currently Research Fellow, TU Berlin, Germany
Dr Yousef Dashti - currently Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Angelo Gallo - currently Researcher Junior, Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Italy
Dr Hussain Bhukya - currently INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, IISER Tirupati, India
Dr Chris Fage - currently Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Shanshan Zhou - currently Group Leader, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dr Douglas Roberts - currently Chief Scientific Officer, Erebagen Ltd, UK
Dr Helen Smith - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Chris Schofield FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Fang Pang - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Craig Townsend, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dr Jinlian Zhao
PhD Students
Dr Ola Odulate - currently Science Teacher, Hodgehill School, Birmingham, UK
Dr Anna Stanley-Smith - currently Vice President for Projects, Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Dr Huaning Zhang - went on to obtain a PhD from the Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Dr Laura Montgomery (nee Walton) - currently Senior Chemist, Peakdale Molecular, UK
Dr Prakash Patel - currently Mathematical Modeller, Cyprotex, Macclesfield, UK
Dr Stuart Haynes - currently Deputy Laboratory Head, CRUK AstraZeneca Antibody Alliance Laboratory, Saffron Walden, UK
Dr Paulina Sydor - went on to become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Malek Zerikly - currently Director Global In-line Marketing Breast Cancer, Pfizer, Germany
Dr Mansoor Ahmad - currently a Science Teacher at Campion School, UK
Dr Nicolas Malet - currently Head, Global Project Team Office, Sanofi, UK
Dr Lauren Ray - currently Team Leader - Synthetic Biology, Syngenta, UK
Dr Joanna Bicz - currently Pharmacy Assistant, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dr Lona Alkhalaf - currently Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Dr David Withall - currently Research Scientist – Synthetic and Biological Chemistry, Rothamsted Research, UK; co-founder of PheroSyn Ltd
Dr Shanshan Zhou - went on to become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Gideon Idowu - currently Lecturer in Environmental and Natural Products Chemistry, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria
Dr Jade Ronan (nee Foster) - currently a Science Teacher at Myton School, UK
Dr Daniel Griffiths - went on to become a Research Fellow in the Challis Group at Monash University, Australia
Dr Rebin Salih - currently Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Department of Microbiology, Charmo University, Iraq
Dr Joshua Cartwright - currently Research Impact Manager, Research and Impact Services, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Xinjun Jian - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Richard Gibson - currently Application Scientist, ThermoFisher, San Jose, USA
Dr Rakesh Saroay - currently Analyst, ICE InsureTech, UK
Dr Marianne Costa - currently CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellowship with Yit-Heng Chooi, University of Western Australia
Dr Christian Hobson - currently Senior Scientist and Head of Chemical Development, Willow Biosciences, San Francisco, USA
Dr Chris Perry - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Chris Willis, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Alma Svatos - currently Lead Scientist, Downstream Processing, Lonza, UK
Dr Matthew Beech - currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Chris Schofield FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Ruby Awodi - currently Lecturer, Chemistry Department, Confluence University of Science and Technology, Nigeria.
Dr Jacob Sargeant - currently Research Chemist at Charnwood Molecular, Lougborough, UK
Dr Ioanna Nakou - currently Research Scientist at Isomerase Therapeutics, Cambridge, UK
Dr Fang Pang - went on to become a Research Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Helen Smith - went on to become an IAS Early Career Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Jacob Sargeant - currently Research Chemist at Charnwood Molecular, Lougborough, UK
Dr Ioanna Nakou - currently Research Scientist at Isomerase Therapeutics, Cambridge, UK
Dr Fang Pang - went on to become a Research Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Helen Smith - went on to become an IAS Early Career Fellow in the Challis Group
Dr Marlene Rothe - currently in the Novartis Early Career Talent Program, Novartis, Switzerland
Dr Rebecca Clayton - currently Chemistry Project Manager, RxCelerate Ltd
MRes Students
Charles Hinchliffe - currently working for the Health and Safety Executive
Project Students
Ursula Wong - went on to obtain a PhD with Dr R. Cox, the Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
Sarah Hubbard - went on to obtain a PhD with Prof. C. Bertozzi, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkley, USA
Louisa Robinson - currently Senior Research Chemist, Syngenta, Jealotts Hill, UK
Ryan De Vooght Johnson - went to become Purification Analyst at Tripos Discovery Research, UK
Anna Stanley - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Matt Finerty - went on to obtain a PhD with Prof. M. Shipman, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Emma Wynne (nee Morris) - currently Research Scientist, Cancer Research Technology Limited, UK
Laura Walton - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Nathalie Argentieri
Lianne Bailey
Rob Phayer
Chander Kant
Nicolas Malet - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Charles Manville - went on to obtain a PhD with Prof. M. Wills , Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Simon Arbache - went on to become Regulatory Chemist at Amega Sciences PLC
Greg Iacobini - went on to obtain a PhD with Prof. M. Shipman, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK
Dimitrios Bahmpakakis - went on to work at Pfizer
Melanie Whitehead - went on to study medicine at the University of Warwick, UK
Stephanie Brooks - went on to study medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK
Jennifer Stockwell - went on to be a PhD student, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK
Raj Bhalla
David Withall - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Valerie Yeo - went on to become Development and Process Executive, SIA, Singapore
Rhiannon Howe - currently working for British Land
Josh Cartwright - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Jade Foster - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Sam Drane - currently a Process Chemist at AstraZeneca, Macclesfield
Richard Belmega - currently Senior Data Analyst at HM Revenue & Customs
Marianne Costa - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Chris Perry - went on to become a Challis group PhD student
Sam Kidman - went on to become a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
Matt Beech - currently a Challis group PhD student
Panward Prasongpholchai - currently a PhD student at the University of Warwick with Dr Manuela Tosin
Hannah Pugh - currently a PhD student at the University of Birmingham with Laura Piddock
Patrick Capel - currently a PhD student at the Oxford/Bristol/Warwick EPRSC CDT in Synthetic Biology
Jacob Sargeant - currently a PhD student in the Challis group
Helen Smith - currently a PhD student in the Challis group
Daniel Bahia - currently Business Manager and co-founder PheroSyn Ltd
Rebecca Clayton - currently a PhD student in the Challis group
Daniel Wicks - currently a Technology Consulting Analyst at Accenture
Caitlin Heffernan - currently New Product Introduction Technologist at GlaxoSmithKline, UK
Kristof Bolhuis - currently a PhD student at University of Southampton with Dr Sam Thompson
Kristof Bolhuis - currently a PhD student at University of Southampton with Dr Sam Thompson
Serban Florea
Alexis Juteau
Stan Green - currently working at Aptuit, UK
Christina Ramming - currently a Masters student at FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg
Sacha Charlton - currently a PhD student at the University of Bristol with Prof Chris Willis
Valeriia Nadmitova - currently working at Oncologica UK Ltd
Callum Bullock - currently a PhD student in the Challis group
Diana Racovita - currently working at Reading Scientific Services Ltd
Shing Liu
Emma Corradini
Amrit Gill
Visitors
Dr Shinya Kodani - Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan
Ms Luisa Laureti - PhD student, Universite Henri Poincare, France
Ms Sylwia Bialek - PhD student, Leiden University, Netherlands
Dr Olapeju Aiyelaagbe - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ms Carol Amaya Viviana Gomez - PhD student, University of Granada, Spain
Dr Peter Rutledge - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Ms Joleen Masschelein - PhD student, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dr Irina Khilyas - Assistant Professor, Kazan Federal University, Russia
Ms Felaine Sumang - Research Associate, University of the Philippines
Ms Keeley Miller - BSc student, Monash University, Australia
Ms Nesrine Bali - MSc student, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Ms Barbara Terlouw - PhD student, Wageningen University, Netherlands