ALASTAIR LENNOX
Career Summary
2018 – present Royal Society University Research Fellow
2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Development of electrochemical catalytic reactions in collaboration with AbbVie
2014 – 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany
Prof. Matthias Beller
Homo- and heterogeneous photocatalytic water reduction
Visiting researcher: Luo group, ZJUT, Hangzhou, China
2008 – 2013 PhD
Thesis: Organotrifluoroborate Preparation, Coupling and Hydrolysis
2004 – 2008 MChem
Chemistry with Studies in North America (UCLA)
Dr Anthony Choi
Anthony graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2016 with an MChem and then continued in Sheffield to complete his PhD working with Prof. Iain Coldham investigating the use of azomethine ylide cycloaddition chemistry towards the synthesis of polycyclic compounds. Upon obtaining his PhD in 2020, he conducted postdoctoral research in Sheffield in collaboration with Liverpool ChiroChem synthesizing novel molecular scaffolds with organolithium chemistry as well as computational studies working with Prof. Anthony J. H. M. Meijer. Anthony joined the Lennox Lab in 2022 to explore photo- and electrochemical methods.
Dr Atul Chaturvedi
Atul graduated with an Msc in Chemistry from the University of Delhi in 2012 and then moved to the CSIR Central Drug Research Institute to pursue his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Namrata Rastogi. His worked focused on metal-free annulations and visible light photo-redox catalysis. Atul then joined the group of Prof. Chandra M. R. Volla at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as an institutional postdoctoral fellow where he explored transition metal-catalysed C-C and C-Heteroatom bond forming reactions. In 2022 Atul joined the Lennox Lab to investigate fluorination protocols.
Dr Mohamed Elsherbini
Mohamed graduated with a BSc in chemistry from Mansoura University, Egypt and returned in 2014 to complete his PhD under the supervision of Professors Hanafi Zoorob and Wafaa Hamama on the synthesis of biologically active selenium-containing heterocycles. He was then appointed as a chemistry lecturer at the Saudi Mining Polytechnic before moving to Cardiff in 2016 to join the group of Professor Thomas Wirth to study hypervalent iodine chemistry and enabling technologies in organic synthesis. They later worked in collaboration with Professor Rudolf Allemann to develop preparations of artemisnin under flow conditions. Following this he moved to the University of Huddersfield in 2019 to join Dr Wesley Moran and work on the electrochemical synthesis of iodine compounds. In 2022 Mohamed joined the Lennox Lab to explore new methods for selective electrochemical fluorination.
PhD Students
John Box
2018
John conducted an MSci project in the Booker-Milburn lab at the University of Bristol. He spent the summer working at Bayer in Germany, and is developing some electrochemical reduction chemistry.
Alexi Sedikides
2018
Alexi did his undergraduate degree at the University of Cardiff. He is working on alkyne fluorination protocols in collaboration with UCB.
Ellie Stammers
2019
Ellie did her undergraduate degree at the University of York, completing her Masters project at Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel. She is part of the Bristol Synthesis CDT and is working in collaboration with the Clayden group.
Bert Rowett
2019
Bert joins the Lennox Lab from the Cardiff/Bristol/Bath CDT in Catalysis, having carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol. He is working on electrochemical α-functionalisation reactions.
Alex Atkins
2019
Alex joins the Lennox group after completing his MSci degree at the University of Bristol and working with Professor Robin Bedford for his final year project. He is currently working on electrochemical fluorination methods in collaboration with Syngenta.
Sam Deeks
2019
Sam carried out his MSci Project in the Faul lab at the University of Bristol. His PhD is in collaboration with the Faul group to develop new materials.
Alice Dean
2020
Alice joins the group from Bristol's TECS CDT after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of East Anglia. Alice will be working on electrochemical fluorination methodology.
Andrew Lacey
2020
Andrew joins the Lennox group after finishing his MChem degree at the University of Warwick. He will conduct computational and experimental investigations into new electrochemical fluorination strategies.
Mickaël Avanthay
2020
Mickaël completed his undergraduate studies at ETH Zürich and then completed the AstraZeneca R&D graduate program in Sweden before joining the Lennox Lab to investigate reductive electrochemical methods.
Sarah Coppock
2021
Sarah joins the Lennox Lab from the Bristol TECS CDT after completing her MChem at Keele University. She is currently working on electrochemical fluorination methodology in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
Charlotte Smith
2021
Charlotte completed her undergraduate degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Loughborough University . She joins the Lennox Lab to develop new photoredox catalysts.
Stephen Sweeting
2021
Stephen joins the Lennox Lab having completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol. He completed summer placements and his final year project in the Hall group. Stephen will be developing electrochemical fluorination protocols.
Luke Ward
2022
Luke completed his MChem at the University of Cardiff where he spent a placement year at Hoffmann La Roche in Basel. Luke then worked at Nanopharm before joining the Lennox Lab where he will focus on developing electrochemical fluorination methodology.