The Martin Wills Group
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Past Group Members
Where are they now ? Former group members (PhD/Postdoc/MSc) - the list may not be fully up to date and may be initial destinations in some cases:
Ian Linney (PhD 1993) |
James Black Foundation, London |
David Hose (PhD 1994) |
Zeneca Pharms, Avlon. |
Barry Burns (postdoc) |
Loctite Ireland |
Eric Merifield (postdoc) |
Astra Zeneca. |
Doug. Critcher (PhD 1995) |
Pfizer Central Research |
John Studley (PhD 1995) |
a chemist at Vertex |
Guy Brenchley (PhD 1995) |
also a chemist at Vertex |
Mark Gamble (postdoc) |
Resolution Chemicals |
Heather Tye (PhD 1996) |
EvotecOAI |
Wilson Leung (PhD 1997) |
Tripos Chemicals, Bude |
Matt. Palmer (PhD 1997) |
Postdoc with A. Padwa (USA) |
Don Smyth (postdoc) |
Amersham International |
Athene Smith (Née Simm, PhD 1998) |
EvotecOAI |
Louise Walker (PhD 1998) |
Postdoc then working in industry |
Richard Tipple (MSc 1998) |
Arval PHH |
Dr Simon Breeden (1998-1999) |
Facilities Manager, York Chemistry. |
Dr Olivier Chiodi (postdoc 1998-1999) |
Teaching in France |
Rick Downing (PhD) |
writing up |
Dr Samia Ebrahim (Postdoc to 1999) |
Not known |
Chris Edwards (PhD 2000, PD) |
Teaching in Kenya |
Jennifer Kenny (PhD) |
writing up |
David Morris (completed PhD 2000) |
Working at startup company in Ireland. |
Roger Mutter (completed PhD 2000) |
Archimed medical communication ag, Switzerland
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Cida Kawamoto (postdoc 1999-2000) |
Brazilian Institute of Aeronautics and Space |
Ahmed Bourghida (completed PhD 2002) |
Working at BMS, Dublin. |
Gerard Hobley (completed PhD 2002) |
Postdoccing in Puerto Rico |
Sharon Bowden (completed MSc 2001) |
AstraZeneca
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Dave Cross (completed PhD 2002) |
Tripos chemicals, Bude |
Atsushi Nagasawa (visitor 2002) |
Kao coporation, Japan. |
Jerome Hannedouche (completed PhD 2003) |
Faculty position -University of Orsay (Paris XI) |
Philip Peach (completed PhD 2003) |
Working at Pfizer, Sandwich |
Aveline Yim (completed PhD 2003) |
Working in the retail sector. |
Richard Eaves (completed PhD 2003) |
Postdoc in the USA |
Jeff Ansell (completed MSc 2005) |
Working in electronics |
Dr Stephanie Bastin (Postdoc Sept 2001-June 2003) |
Faculty position in Toulouse |
Enrique Llaudet(Research with Biol Sci joint project 2001-2004) |
Was working in Biol Sci |
Alexandre Lapis(Visiting student from Brazil 2004) |
Now teaching in Brazil |
Glynn Williams (PhD student 2001-2004) |
Working at GSK, Stevenage. |
Aidan Hayes (PhD student 2002-2005) |
Teaching in London |
Yingjian (Andy) Xu (PhD student 2002-2005) |
Now running his own chemical company, based in China. |
Marie Sircoglou (Erasmus student 2005) |
lecturer in the Université d'Orsay (Paris XI) Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay. |
Marzia Mazzacurati (Summer student in 2005 and 2006) |
Now working with BASF in Italy |
Franco Minissi (MSc student 2004-2006) |
Currently working in the chemical industry in Italy |
Daljit Matharu (PhD student 2004-2006) |
Working in research in the US. |
Adriana Lorente (Erasmus student 2007) |
Has finished her degree in Barcelona. |
Dr Changxue Lin (Postdoc April 2006-Dec 2007) |
Now working as a scientist at Novartis China. |
Dr Bhavana Tripathi (Postdoc Sept 2005-March 2008) |
Teaching and researching. |
Fung Kei (Kathy) Cheung (PhD student Oct 2004-Sept 2007) |
Working as a chemist at Pfizer. |
Miguel Contreras Redondo (Erasmus student 2007-2008)
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Finished his degree in Barcelona. |
A. Simon Partridge (Final year student 2007-2008) |
Completed a PhD at Imperial College. |
Akira Shiibashi (visitor from Tokyo March-June 2007)
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Finished his degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology. |
Dr Silvia Gosiewska (Postdoc from July 2008-March 2009) |
Now doing chemistry at DSM in The Netherlands.
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Daurgirdas Tomas Racys (MChem 2008-09) |
Doing a PhD in Bristol |
Xiaolu (Lucy) Jiang (MChem 2008-09) |
Working in China |
Lisa Hawkes (MChem 2008-09) |
Completed a masters course |
Dorothy Ong Visitor from NTU singapore 2009 |
Completed her course in NTU Singapore |
Jose Eduardo Damas Martins (PD in 2007 and 4/2008-9/2009) |
Now an academic at UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
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John-Michael Collinson (Buster) project student 2009-10 |
Completed a PhD at Imperial College
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Jamie Godfrey project student 2009-10 |
Completed a PhD at Warwick |
Emma London project student 2009-10 |
Working in industry |
Charles Manville PhD 2006-2010 |
Working in industry. |
Jonathan Hopewell Postdoc 2009-2011 |
Working at Lilly. |
Jasmine Desmond and Peter Crane project students |
MChems in 2010-11; Both went on to do PhDs. |
Charlotte Zammit MSc 2010-2011 |
MSc student from 2011-2012, completed a PhD at Oxford |
Vimal Parekh PhD 2007-2011 |
Working at Polytherics |
Tarn Johnson PhD 2009-2013 |
Completed PhD 2012, recently postdoccing at Leeds. |
Will Totty and Alistair Wallace project students |
MChems 2011-12. |
Muftah Darwish PhD 2009-2012 |
Completed his PhD in 2013 and now working in Libya |
Katie Jolley PhD 2010-2013 |
Working as a postdoc at Leeds, now at Southampton |
Julien Del Corpo ERASMUS visitor 2013 |
Completed his degree in Caen |
Cassandra Felices MSc project student 2013 |
Working in Gibraltar. |
James Fuster project student 2013 |
Completed his MChem |
Dr Rina Soni. PhD 2011, postdoc to 2013. |
Working at M S University of Baroda, India |
Alex Bisset PhD student March 2009-Feb 2013 |
Now working in South Korea in industry. |
Vicky Marlow PhD student Oct 2008-Sept 2012 |
Now working for The Wellcome Foundation |
Zhijia (Amphi) Fang PhD student Oct 2010-Sept 2013 |
Now working as an academic at Qinzhou University, China |
Andrew Rawlings, MSc Oct 2012-Sept 2013 |
Working in the aerospace industry |
Ben Mitchell, Dan Moore and Josh Humphreys |
MChems 2013-2014. Working variously |
Shiyun Chen and Hyunju An |
ASMIT project students 2013-2014, went on to successful completion |
Alex Matthews, Stuart Kennington, Michael Chu |
MChems 2014-2015, working in various areas |
Qi Zhang |
Erasmus visitor 2015. |
Roy Hodgkinson |
Postdoc March 2013-June 2015, now at GSK. |
Maddy Cumbes, Ben Treloar and Alex Chamberlain
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MChem Project Students 2015-2016. Various destinations.
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Delphine Pichon.
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Visiting student from Rennes, France, April-August 2016
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Lavrentis Galanopoulos.
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PGT ASMIT (analytical chemistry) MSc project studentApril-September 2016. Now doing a PhD at Glasgow.
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Abdul Alanazi.
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PGT Polymers MSc project student April-September 2016
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Luke Williams
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URSS project student, July-August 2016
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Alessandro Del Grosso |
Postdoctoral Fellow Jan 2015-February 2017. Now a postdoc in Germany. |
Anish Mistry |
Postdoctoral Fellow Oct 2016-May 2017. PDRA in Warwick. |
Aikaterini (Kate) Tsatse |
Studied with the group from Oct-Dec 2016. Completing a PhD at IC. |
Sam Forshaw MSc |
MSc (research) Student Oct 2015-Feb 2017, doing a PhD. |
Asuka Matsunami |
Visiting PhD student from Japan, 30/1/17-10/3/17, working in Japan. |
Shakiela Begum |
MSc Project student, Spring-Summer 2017. |
Sahrujah Sanmuhanathan |
MSC project student Spring-Summer 2017. |
Vijyesh Vyas |
Visiting PhD student mid-2017 and Newton Fellow from 2018-2021. Now a PDRA in Southampton |
Rajan Chauhan
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MChem Project Student 2016-2017 |
Lisa Igel
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MSc (by research) student Oct 2016-Sept 2017.
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James Coverdale |
PhD student from Oct 2014 - Nov 2017. now working in industry |
Thomas Brown |
PhD student December 2013-October 2017. Teacher training. |
Tom Hall |
PhD student from October 2013- September 2017. Representing team GB in Archery. |
Richard Knighton |
Postdoc from March 2017-April 2018. PDRA in France. |
Ren Ta Jonathan Chew |
A*STAR Research Fellow August 2016-August 2018, researcher at A*STAR, Singapore. |
Jaime Martinez Acosta |
Visitor from UFMG, April-June 2018. Now an academic in Colombia. |
Yean Ming Chew and Jami Reber |
MSc project students March-August 2018. Jami is working in the US.
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Luke Mailey and Zak Dualeh |
MChem students 2017-2018. |
Bharat Kumar Allam |
Postdoctoral visitor on SERB Fellowship, Nov 2017-Nov 2018. Now an academic in India |
Shaqueil, John-Paul and Matt. |
MChems 2018-2019. to be updated... |
Hannah Adams, David Robson and Mohammed Khimji |
MChems 2019-2020, two are doing PhDs and one is working in patents. |
Tom Squire |
MIBTP mini-project student 2019-2020. |
Rob Messias |
year 4 MChem research student 2020-2021, now doing a PhD |
Neelam Tiwari |
Visiting Researcher 2019-2021 |
Sam Forshaw PhD |
PhD student from October 2017-Sept 2021 Now at Sygnature |
Jonathan Barrios-Rivera |
PhD student from October 2017-Sept 2021 Now at Johnson Matthey |
Samson Oladeji |
Analytical Sciences (taught MSc) project student Spring-Summer 2022 |
Efstratios Nikolaidis |
URSS project student, Summer 2022 |
Ye Zheng |
PhD student October 2018- September 2022 Now at Apex Molecular |
Shweta Gediya |
PhD student October 2018- September 2022 |
Stephen Yoo |
Visiting student from Toronto, May-June 2023, worked on ATH of ketones |
Adam Cowden |
MAS CDT PhD student October 2019-September 2022 |
Marianna Diamantakis and Andrew Stevens |
Chem project students 2022-2023 |
Tasbiha Khan |
ASI MSc taught course project student, April-September 2023 |
Sam Davis |
MChem Project student 2023-2024 |
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Want to catch up with any of them? -further details available on application to M. Wills
Some old pictures of the group:
Above: Neelam and Vijyesh leaving meeting March 2021: Neelam, Shweta, Ye, Vijyesh, Noha, Jon, Sam, Rob, Adam.
From the 2020-2021 academic year (above). ca November 2020; Jon, Noha, Vijyesh, Sam, Rob, Ye, Neelam, Shweta, Adam.
From the 2019-2020 academic year. October 2019: Neelam, Adam, Mohammed, Jon, Martin, David, Vijyesh, Sam, Hannah, Shweta, Ye.
August 2019 (in the Malvern Hills) Shweta, Vijyesh, Jon, Martin, Sam, Ye and Neelam.
November 2018: Ye, Shweta, JP, Shaqueil, Sam, Matt, Bharat, Jon, Martin
May 2018: Jami, Yean Ming, Jonathan, Bharat, Martin, Sam, Jaime.
November 2017 - Martin, Rich, Zak, Luke, Jonathan B, Sam, Jonathan C.
August 2017 - Vijyesh, Richard, Martin, Jonathan, Anish.
November 2016: Alessandro, Lisa, Tom, Kate, Raj, Jonathan, Martin, Thomas.
July 2016: Alessandro, Lavrentis, Tom, Abdul, Martin, Luke, Thomas, Delphine, Sam.
October 2015; Martin, Ben, Tom,Maddy, Alex, Alessandro, Thomas, Sam.
February 2015: Michael, Qi, Roy, Alessandro, Alex, Martin, Thomas B, Tom H, Stuart.
November 2014: back - Tom, Alex, Roy, Thomas, front - Stuart, Martin, Michael.
above - June 2014 - Shiyun, Hyunju, Martin, Roy, Tom, Thomas.
above - October 2013 - Rina, Ben, Martin, Dan, Tom, Amphi, Roy, Josh.
October 2012- September 2013. Above; Martin, Katie, Andrew, Rina, Muftah, Vicky, Amphi. Below; Martin, Julien, Roy, James, Cassandra, Amphi, Rina.
above - January 2012; Tarn, Vicky, Alex, Alistair, Muftah, Katie, Martin, Will, Rina, Amphi. (above)
above -November 2010: Martin, Muftah, Jon, Jasmine, Amphi, Charlotte, Tarn, Katie, Rina, Alex, Dave, Vimal.
Above - December 2009: Vicky, Rina, Buster, Jamie, Alex, Jonathan, Martin, Muftah, Charles, Vimal, Katherine, Dave, Tarn, Emma (above)
Above- October 2008: back: Silvia, Eduardo, Charles, Muftah, Tomas, Vimal, Front: Rina, Martin, Dave, Xiaolu.
above - Taken outside Kenilworth Castle, June 2007.
Adriana, Akira, Kathy, Lin, Eduardo, Dave, Martin (+ Charles in spirit).
above - Taken outside the chemistry department in Sunny Warwick University.
July 2006 - Martin, Changxue, Franco, Dave, Daljit, Stephen, Marzia, Kathy, Wen, Bhavana.
Summer 2005 - Yingjian, Martin, Marzia, Daljit, Franco, Kathy, Marie, Aidan, Glynn, sitting: Dave
From 2002:
Left hand: Richard Eaves, David Cross, (Apare)Cida Kawamoto, Jerome Hannedouche, Aveline Yim, Stephanie Bastin, David Morris, Jeff Ansell, Glynn Williams, Philip Peach.