Callum Crockford
I am a third-year PhD student in the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group, under the supervision of Professor Julie Macpherson. My research couples electrochemical techniques with electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR) to detect electrochemically-generated radicals, thus providing an insight into the electrochemical degradation processes used to cleanly and efficiently remove contaminants from waterways.
Beyond my PhD studies, I am the Advisory Editor for the Chemistry Student Guides series (published by the Royal Society of Chemistry), and manage all student reviewers for this series.
I am also very involved with the chemistry postgraduate community at Warwick, representing our interests as the Secretary for the Postgraduate Student-Staff Liaison Committee, and leading events such as the monthly Chemistry Postgraduate Games Night.
During my spare time, I sing with the University of Warwick Chorus and Vox Warwick.
Background
Education
October 2018 – July 2022: MChem in Chemistry with International Placement (University of Warwick)
Research
October 2021 – March 2022: Studying the conformational and chemical structure of polymers and dopants molecules (with Professor Giovanni Costantini, University of Warwick)
April 2021 – July 2021: Investigating electrochemical activity of water in ionic liquids via computational methods (with Professor Ekaterina Pas, Monash University)
Conferences
2024
The 74th UK Diamond Research Conference, University of Warwick, UK: "Re-thinking Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Approaches to Detecting Radicals Generated at Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes" (Poster Presentation)
The 57th Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK: "A Study into the Fabrication of EPR Cells via 3D Printing" (Oral Presentation)
2023
The 9th EFEPR EPR Summer School, University of Geneva, Switzerland: “Identifying Non-Lossy 3D Printing Materials for in-situ EPR Cell Fabrication” (Poster Presentation)
The 73rd Diamond Research Conference, University of Warwick, UK: “The Challenges Associated with the Detection of Hydroxyl Radicals Generated at Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes” (Poster Presentation)
The 56th Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK: “The Challenges Associated with the Detection of the Electrochemically Generated Hydroxyl Radical via EPR” (Poster Presentation)
Teaching
Lab Demonstration
CH155 – Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills I: Analytical Techniques (II) – NMR Spectroscopy and Melting Point Analysis (2023 - 2024)
CH222 – Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills II: Magnetic Resonance Techniques (2022 - 2023)
CH3F1 – Advanced Physical Chemistry and Laboratory: NMR Dynamics – Quantifying Molecular Motions (2023 - 2024)
Problem Classes
CH273 – Properties of Solutions and Foundations of Electrochemistry (2023 - 2024)
