Previous Group members
Over the years, many talented researchers and students have been part of the Donohoe Group before moving on to careers in academia, industry and beyond. This page recognises our former Group members.
Dr Peter Moore, postdoc, 1995-1997. Went on to be a synthetic organic chemist at AstraZeneca.
Dr Clare Stevenson, PhD, 1995-1998. Went on to be a medicinal organic chemist at Albany Molecular (NY state, US).
Dr Paul Guyo, PhD, 1995-1998. Did a postdoc with George Olah- Nobel Laureate (Los Angeles, US) and went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Mike Waring, PhD, 1996-1999. Did a postdoc with Phil Magnus (Texas, US) and went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Rakesh Harji, PhD, 1996-1999. Started as a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca: he went on to be a patent attorney with AstraZeneca.
Dr Jon Winter, PhD, 1997-2000. Went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Kevin Blades, postdoc, 1997-2000. Went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Karl Ace, PhD, 1997-2000. Did a postdoc with J. Sutherland (Manchester) and then worked as a production chemist for GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr Andrew McRiner, PhD, 1997-2000. Went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with Novartis (New Jersey, US).
Dr Andrew Calabrese, postdoc, 1999-2001. Went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with Pfizer.
Dr Ali Raoof, PhD, 2002. Went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Evotec OAI (Abingdon).
Dr Lee Mitchell, PhD, 1999-2001. Did a postdoc with Professor N. Simpkins (Nottingham).
Dr J-B. Guillermin, PhD, 1999-2001. Did a postdoc with Professor P. Grieco (Montana, US).
Dr David House, postdoc, 2000-2002. Went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr Catherine Headley, PhD, 1999-2002. Did a postdoc wth Dr. S. Marsden (Leeds).
Dr James Logan, PhD, 1999-2002. Went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Almac Sciences Limited.
Dr Laura Mace, PhD, 2000-2003. Did a postdoc with Professor J. White (Oregon State University, US) and then worked as a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Tonbridge).
Dr Peter Johnson, PhD, 2000-2003. Did a postdoc with Professor V. Rawal (University of Chicago) and went on to be a medicinal organic chemist with VastOx (Oxford).
Dr F. Turner, PhD, 2000-2003. Went on to be a synthetic organic chemist with Ferring Ltd (Southampton).
Dr David Carbery, postdoc 2003. Did another postdoc with Alan Armstrong (Imperial College) and went on to be a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Bath.
Dr R. Pye, postdoc, 2002-2004. Is currently a medicinal organic chemist with VastOx (Oxford).
Dr H. Sintim, postdoc, 2002-2004. Did a postdoc with Eric Kool (Stanford) and went on to be an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Maryland (US).
Dr Sam Butterworth, DPhil, 2001-2004. Is currently a medicinal organic chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Graeme Freestone, PhD, 2001-2004. Went on to be a postdoc with K. C. Nicolaou (Scripps, California).
Dr Peter Turner, PhD, 2002-2005. Went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage).
Dr Alan Ironmonger, postdoc, 2005-06. Went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Tonbridge).
Dr Caroline Rigby, PhD, 2002-2005. Went on to be a research chemist at Peakdale Molecular.
Dr Majid Chughtai, PhD, 2002-2005. Went on to work for Shell as a research chemist.
Dr Robert Harris, PhD, 2003-2006. Went on to be a process research chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage).
Dr Dale Johnson, PhD, 2003-2006. Went on to be a medicinal chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (Harlow).
Dr Paolo Innocenti, postdoc, 2006-2007. Went on to be a research chemist at Dextra.
Dr Carole Bataille, postdoc, 2005-2007. Did a postdoc in Prof. Steve Davies's group (Oxford).
Dr Gwydian Churchill, postdoc, 2005-2007. Went on to be a Process Chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Fatima Churruca, postdoc, 2005-2007.
Dr David Klauber, PhD, 2004-2007. Went on to be a process research chemist with AstraZeneca.
Dr Rhian Thomas, PhD, 2004-2007. Went on to be a postdoc in Dr Martin Smith's group (Oxford).
Dr Farrah Bhatti, PhD, 2004-2007. Went on to work for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Matthew Cheeseman, 2006-2008. Went on to be a medicinal chemist with the Institute of Cancer Research (Sutton)
Dr Lisa Fishlock, PhD, 2005-2008.
Dr Iren Walz, postdoc, 2007-2008.
Dr Maria-Héléna Gonçalves-Farbos, postdoc, 2008-2009.
Professor Luiz Claudio Barbosa, sabbatical visitor, 2008-2009. Contact Details: Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), 36570-000 Viçosa - MG - Brazil.
Dr Neil Kershaw, postdoc 2006-2009.
Dr Oliver Williams, PhD, 2005-2008. Went on to be a chemist for BP Fuel and Lubricant Technology (Pangbourne).
Dr Pete Lindsay-Scott, PhD, 2006-2009. Did a postdoc with K. C. Nicolau and went on to be a medicinal chemist at Lilly.
Dr Tim O'Riordan, PhD, 2006-2009. Did a postdoc with A. G. M. Barrett and went on to be a medicinal chemist at Syngenta.
Dr Aida Flores, 2007-2010. Went on to be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Instituto de Química Médica, CSIC, Madrid.
Dr Ptoton Mnangat, 2006-2009.
Dr John Bower, 2008-2010. Went on to be a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Dr Manuel Peifer, 2009-2010. Went on to be a postdoc at Princeton.
Dr Gráinne Hargaden, 2007-2010. Went on to be a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Dr Jess Kershaw, 2006-2010. Went on to be a patent attorney with Carpmaels and Ransford, London.
Dr Adam Lacy, 2008-2011. Did a Postdoc at ETH, Zurich.
Dr Cedric Callens, 2008-2011. Worked as a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research.
Dr Mikhail Kabesov, 2008-2011. Went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Loughborough
Dr Stefanie Mesch, 2010-2011. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Novartis
Dr Matthew Connolly, 2008-2011. Went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield.
Dr José Basutto, 2008-2011. Went on to be a postdoc at the University of Canberra.
Dr Paul Winship, 2007-2011. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.
Dr Emma Wallace, 2007-2011. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford.
Dr Ali Jahanshahi, 2007-2012. Went on to be an Industry liaison officer at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Dr Kirsty Luscombe, 2009-2012. Went on to be a Development Technologist Infineum, Abingdon.
Dr Christian Winter, postdoc, 2010-2012. Went on to be a research scientist (crop protection) with BASF, Germany.
Dr Radoslaw Lipinski, PhD, 2008-2012. Went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr Akshat Rathi, PhD, 2008-2013. Went on to be the Science and Technology editor for The Conversation.
Dr Rob Pullin, postdoc, 2011-2013. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Vertex Pharmaceutical.
Dr Louis Chan, postdoc, 2011-2013. Went on to be a postdoctoral researcher in the Balasubramanian group at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Ben Pilgrim, part II and DPhil, 2008-2013. Went on to do a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Chris Jones, postdoc, 2009-2013. Went on to be a research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.
Dr Mike Tucker, part II and DPhil, 2008-2013. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.
Dr David Baker, PhD, 2010-2014.
Dr Leo Hardegger, postdoc, 2013-2014. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Novartis.
Dr Anne Kornahrens, PhD, 2011-2014. Returned to Scripps, San Diego, to complete her Skaggs/Oxford DPhil/PhD programme
Lena Rakers, Visiting Student. Returned to the University of Münster to complete her Masters and PhD programmes.
Dr Darren Poole, part II and PhD, 2009-2014. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr Matthew Tatton, PhD, 2010-2014. Went on to be a postdoctoral researcher at Syngenta.
Dr Anatol Spork, postdoc, 2013-2015. Went on to be a trainee patent lawyer with Uexkell & Stolberg.
Dr Alice Gatland, part II and PhD, 2010-2015. Went on to be a medicinal chemist for Karus Therapeutics, Abingdon.
Dr Di Shen, PhD, 2011-2015.
Dr Jacqueline Habegger, PhD, 2011-2015.
Dr Ekaterina Melikhova, PhD, 2012-2016. Went on to be a medicinal chemist CatSci.
Dr Rosimeire Coura Barcelos, postdoc, 2014-2015.
Dr Xuezheng Yang, PhD, 2011-2016. Went on to be a synthetic chemist at Peakdale Molecular.
Dr Yifan Liu, PhD, 2011-2016. Went on to be a strategy manager at Country Garden Properties (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Dr Harish Potukuchi, postdoc, 2013-2016. Went on to be a scientific advisor in New Delhi.
Dr Johannes Walker, PhD, 2013-2017. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof Martin Oestreich in Berlin.
Dr Ahria Roushanbakhti, PhD, 2013-2017. Went on to be a trader at Onyx Commodities.
Dr Simon Werrel, PhD, 2013-2017. Went on to be a chemist at BASF.
Dr Sandra Balcells Garcia, PhD, 2013-2017. Went on to be a process chemist at Farmhispania.
Dr Henrique Esteves, PhD, 2013-2017. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof. Stephen Buchwald at MIT.
Dr Ignacio Colomer, postdoc 2014-2016. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof. Stephen Fletcher at the University of Oxford.
Dr James Frost, postdoc, 2014-2017. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at UCB.
Dr Harry Shirley, postdoc, 2016-2018. Went on to be a editorial development advisor at Nature publishing.
Dr Chris Delaforce, PhD, 2014-2018. Went on to be a data scientist at The Happiness Index.
Dr Melodie Richardson, PhD, 2014-2018. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Mewburn Ellis.
Dr Choon Boon Cheong, PhD, 2014-2018. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof Robert Griffin at MIT.
Dr Maria Koyioni, postdoc, 2017-2018. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof Piotr Kaszynski at the University of Lodz, Poland.
Dr Anna Chamberlain, PhD, 2015-2019. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Kilburn & Strode.
Dr Simon Wuebbolt, postdoc 2018-2019. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Vertex.
Dr Alexandru Grozavu, PhD, 2015-2019. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof Veronique Gouverneur.
Dr Wasim Akhtar, PhD and postdoc, 2014-2019. Went on to be an Analyst at Kraft Heinz Company.
Dr Hamish Hepburn, postdoc 2017-2020. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Evotec.
Dr Yuxiang Zhu, PhD, 2016-2020. Went on to be a postdoc with Prof John Bower.
Dr Timothy Kwok, PhD, 2016-2020. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Astex.
Dr Maxwell Haughey, PhD, 2016-2020. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney at Carpmaels & Ransford.
Dr Chris Hall, 2016-2020. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney with Elkington + Fife.
Dr Oskar Hoff, PhD, 2016-2020. Went on to be a medicinal chemist at Celeris.
Dr Marvin Kischkewitz, postdoc 2020-2021. Went on to be a process chemist at LANXESS.
Dr Roly Armstrong, postdoc 2017-2021. Went on to be a Lecturer in Chemistry at Newcastle University.
Dr Glenn Archibald, postdoc 2015-2021. Went on to be an editorial assistant.
Dr Lewis Smith, PhD, 2018-2022. Went on to be a trainee patent attorney with Elkington + Fife.
Dr Nicolas Kratena, postdoc, 2020-2022. Went on to be a Research Fellow at TU Wien.
Dr Daniella Cheang, PhD, 2019-2023. Went to be a medicinal chemist at Boehringer Ingelheim.
Dr Lydia Cox, PhD, 2019-2023. Went to be a process chemist at Novo Nordisk
Dr Elliot Bailey, PhD, 2019-2023. Went to be a process chemist at Pharmaron.
Dr Aaron Day, postdoc, 2021-2023. Went to be a medicinal chemist at Australian Translational Medicinal Chemistry Facility (ATMCF) at Monash University.
Dr Bruno Marinic, PhD, 2019-2023. Went to be a postdoc with Prof. John Sutherland.
Dr Daniya Aynetdinova, PhD, 2019-2023. Went to be a postdoc with Prof. Nuno Maulide.
Dr Ciaran Lunt Laurin, PhD, 2017-2023. Went to be a R&D chemist at OXECO.
Dr Jessica Crompton, PhD, 2020-2024. Went to be a medicinal chemist at AstraZenaca (Cambridge).
Dr Mostafa Amer, post-doc, 2022-2025.
Dr Timothy C. Jenkins, PhD, 2021-2025.
Dr Jingyan Hou, PhD, 2021-2025. Went on to be a post-doc with Dr Saidul Islam.
Dr Francisco Battiti, PhD, 2021-2025.
Dr Andrew Calabrese, 1999-2001
Dr David House, 2000-2002
Dr David Carberry, 2003
Dr Richard Pye, 2002-2004
Dr Herman Sintim, 2002-2004
Dr Alan Ironmonger, 2005-2006
Dr Paolo Innocenti, 2006-2007
Dr Carole Bataille, 2005-2007
Dr Gwydion Churchill, 2005-2007
Dr Fátima Churruca, 2005-2007
Dr Matthew Cheeseman, 2006-2008
Dr Irene Walz, 2007-2008
Dr Maria-Héléna Gonçalves-Farbos, 2008-2009
Prof. Luiz Claudio A. Barbosa, 2008-2009
Dr Neil Kershaw, 2006-2009
Dr Aida Flores, 2007-2010
Dr John Bower, 2008-2010
Dr Manuel Peifer, 2009-2010
Dr Graîne Hargaden, 2007-2010
Professor Bill Malachowski, 2011
Dr Mikhail Kabesov, 2008-2011
Dr Stefanie Mesch, 2010-2011
Dr Christian Winter, 2010-2012
Dr Rob Pullin, 2011-2013
Dr Louis Chan, 2011-2013
Dr Chris Jones, 2009-2013
Dr Leo Hardegger, 2013-2014
Dr Anatol Spork, 2013-2015
Dr Rosemire Coura Barcelos, 2014-2015
Dr Harish Potukuchi, 2013-2016
Dr Ignacio Colomer, 2014-2016
Dr James Frost, 2014-2017
Dr Maria Koyioni, 2017-2018
Dr Harry Shirley, 2016-2018
Dr Simon Wuebbolt, 2018-2019
Dr Hamish Hepburn, 2017-2020
Dr Marvin Kischkewitz, 2020-2021
Dr Roly Armstrong, 2017-2021
Dr Aaron Day, 2021-2023
Dr Nicolas Kratena, 2020-2022
Dr Mostafa Amer, 2022-2025
Dr Laura Mace, 2000–2003
Dr Peter Johnson, 2000–2003
Dr Felicity Turner, 2000–2003
Dr Leena Sisangia, 2000–2003
Dr Sam Butterworth, 2001–2004
Dr John Fisher, 2001–2004
Dr Graeme Freestone, 2001–2004
Dr Majid Chughtai, 2002–2005
Dr Allan Orr, 2002–2005
Dr Caroline Rigby, 2002–2005
Dr Pete Turner, 2002–2005
Dr Jessica Chiu, 2003–2006
Dr Rob Harris, 2003–2006
Dr Dale Johnson, 2003–2006
Dr Carla Rosa, 2003–2006
Dr Emilie Rossignol, 2003–2006
Dr David Klauber, 2004–2007
Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, 2004–2007
Dr Rhian Thomas, 2004–2007
Dr Farrah Bhatti, 2004–2007
Dr Lisa Fishlock, 2005–2008
Dr Oliver Williams, 2005–2008
Dr Pete Lindsay-Scott, 2006–2009
Dr Tim O'Riordan, 2006–2009
Dr Ptoton Mnangat, 2007–2010
Dr Jess Keshaw, 2006–2010
Dr Adam Lacy, 2008–2011
Dr Matthew Connolly, 2008–2011
Dr Cedric Callens, 2008–2011
Dr José Basutto, 2008–2011
Dr Paul Winship, 2007–2011
Dr Emma Wallace, 2007–2011
Dr Ali Jahanshahi, 2007–2012
Dr Kirsty Luscombe, 2009–2012
Dr Radoslaw Lipinski, 2008–2012
Dr Akshat Rathi, 2008–2013
Dr Ben Pilgrim, 2009–2013
Dr Michael Tucker, 2009–2013
Dr David Baker, 2010–2014
Dr Anne Kornahrens, 2011–2014
Dr Darren Poole, 2009–2014
Dr Matthew Tatton, 2010–2014
Dr Alice Gatland, 2010–2015
Dr Di Shen, 2011–2015
Dr Ekaterina Melikhova, 2012–2016
Jacqueline Habegger, 2011–2015
Dr Xuezheng Yang, 2011–2016
Dr Yifan Liu, 2011–2016
Dr Johannes Walker, 2012–2017
Dr Ahria Roushanbakhti, 2013–2017
Dr Henrique Esteves, 2013–2017
Dr Sandra Balcells Garcia, 2013–2017
Dr Simon Werrel, 2013–2017
Dr Melodie Richardson, 2014–2018
Dr Choon Boon Cheong, 2014–2018
Dr Chris Delaforce, 2014–2018
Dr Anna Chamberlain, 2015–2019
Dr Wasim Akhtar, 2014–2019
Dr Alex Grozavu, 2015–2019
Dr Yuxiang (Daniel) Zhu, 2015–2020
Dr Max Haughey, 2015–2020
Dr Timothy Kwok, 2016–2020
Dr Chris Hall, 2016–2021
Dr Oskar Hoff, 2016–2021
Dr Lewis Smith, 2018–2022
Will Nieuwenhuys, 2002–2003
Jason Rodrigues, 2003–2004
Rob Davenport, 2004–2005
Dave Gubb, 2004–2005
Jen Thomson, 2004–2005
Stuart Gordon, 2004–2005
Johannes Kloesges, 2005–2006
Peter Wright, 2006–2007
Jacob Bush, 2007–2008
Alex Scott-Simons, 2007–2008
Mark Binley, 2008–2009
Louise Walport, 2008–2009
Constanze Neumann, 2009–2010
Michael O'Hagan, 2009–2010
Nicholas Race, 2009–2010
Rosa Cookson, 2010–2011
Kathryn Feeney, 2010–2011
David Nzuruba, 2010–2011
Dominic Affron, 2011–2012
Geraint Jones, 2011–2012
James Neuhaus, 2011–2012
Wen Jie Ong, 2011–2012
Emily Summerton, 2011–2012
David Ashmore, 2012–2013
Gregory Craven, 2012–2013
Charlie McTernan, 2012–2013
Ruchuta Nodd Ardkhean, 2013–2014
Khalil Davis, 2013–2014
Camilla Shotton, 2013–2014
Duncan Lindsey, 2013–2014
Jess Eastwood, 2014–2015
Ziga Perko, 2014–2015
Matt Reeves, 2014–2015
Niall Moon, 2014–2015
Jack Hoffman, 2015–2016
Alex Kelly, 2016–2017
Ben Williams, 2016–2017
Joe Emsley, 2016–2017
Filip Muncan, 2017–2018
Kieran Paterson, 2017–2018
Philip Smith, 2017–2018
Brian Lam, 2017–2018
Benjamin Reeves, 2018–2019
Indi Marriott, 2018–2019
Joe Anderson, 2019–2020
Maxym Kadarauch, 2019–2020
Elisa Yonglin Lai, 2020–2021
Teodor Razvan Mirescu, 2020–2021
Jane Ngarmnil, 2021–2022
Teddy Smith, 2021–2022