Melen Research Group
Advancing Main Group Chemistry
Postdocs:
Sanjukta Pahar (2024): Went on to work in industry in India.
Nasim Khan (2023): Continued to do research in Cardiff.
Tanja Kaehler (2022): Went on to work in industry in Germany.
Ayan Dasgupta (2022): Went on to a postdoc in Oxford.
Christian Thiehoff (2020): Senior scientist at Evotec, Abingdon.
Darren Willcox (2019): Independent position at Manchester.
Shyam Basak (2019): Continued to postdoc in Cardiff.
Jahn Wenz (2018): Went on to a postdoc in Stuttgart, Germany.
Imtiaz Kahn (2018): Went on to a postdoc position in Manchester.
Adam Ruddy (2018): Went on to work at Johnson Matthey.
James Lawson (2017): Went on to work in Industry.
PhD Students:
Mashael Alharbi (2024): Independent position in Saudi Arabia.
Katrina Stefkova (2023): Went to work in patent law, Munich, Germany.
Lukas Gierlichs (2023): Went on to work in industry in Cardiff, UK.
Theodore Gazis (2022): Went on to do a postdoc at Keele University, UK.
Jamie Carden (2021): Went on to work for the Welsh Goverment.
Darren Ould (2020): Went on to do a postdoc with Dom Wright, University of Cambridge, UK.
Hugh Hamilton (2019)
Lewis Wilkins (2018): Went on to do a postdoc with Francois Gabbai, Texas A&M University, USA. Now a formulation chemist in North Carolina.
Yashar Soltani (2018): Went on to do a postdoc with Fred Fontaine, Laval University, Canada.
Visiting Students:
Kimia Rahmannia (2024): Visiting PhD student, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Shahnaz Rahim (2023): Visiting PhD student, Abdul Wali Khan University Mradan, Pakistan.
Tomasz Sokolnicki (2023): Visiting PhD student, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Valeria Nori (2020): ERASMUS student, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy (PhD).
Tanja Kaehler (2020): Visiting student, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany (PhD).
Sanjukta Pahar (2019): British Council, Visiting student, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India (PhD)
Tobias Tigges (2019): ERASMUS student, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany (MSc).
Dorothea Engl (2018): ERASMUS student, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (BSc).
Jennifer Börger (2018): ERASMUS student, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (BSc).
Melanie Walther (2015): ERASMUS student, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany (BSc).
Louis Frentzel-Beyme (2015): ERASMUS student, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (BSc).
Stefan Burger (2015): ERASMUS student, Technische Universität München, Germany (BSc).
James Lawson (2015): Pfizer Project.
Benjamin Gunther (2015): ERASMUS student, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany (BSc).
Alexander Bähr (2014): ERASMUS student, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (BSc).
Kevin Ollegott (2014): ERASMUS student, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (BSc).
CDT Students:
Theo Gazis (2018): RSII, Cardiff University.
Matthew Conway (2017): RSI, Cardiff University.
Ioli Howard (2017): RSI, Cardiff University.
Mattia Manzotti (2016): RSI, Cardiff University.
Hugh Hamilton (2015): RSII, Cardiff University.
MChem/MSc Students:
Daniel Tinsley (2022): Cardiff University.
Samuel Martell (2022): Cardiff University.
Harry Russell (2021): Cardiff University.
Huan Jiang (2021): Cardiff University (MSc).
Xeuchao Zhang (2021): Cardiff University (MSc).
Sam Watts (2020): Cardiff University.
Luke Strange (2020): Cardiff University.
Jessica Stone (2019): Cardiff University (Now doing a PhD at Cardiff).
Will McAllister (2019): Cardiff University.
Sean Smith (2018): Cardiff University.
Rowan Page (2018): Cardiff University.
Tobias Robson (2017): Cardiff University (MSc).
Vladimir Vladimirov (2017): Cardiff University (Now doing a PhD at Cardiff).
Dale Lyons (2017): Cardiff University.
Tom Sutcliffe (2017): Cardiff University.
Lukas Gierlichs (2017): Cardiff University (Now doing a PhD at Cardiff).
Matthew de Vere-Tucker (2016): Cardiff University (Now doing a PhD at St Andrews).
James Stormont (2016): Cardiff University.
Alex Rigby (2016): Cardiff University (Now doing a PhD at Imperial).
Ewart Middleton (2015): Cardiff University.
Zachary Parr (2014): Cardiff University.
BSc Students:
Nuha Mostafa (2022): Cardiff University.
Greg Smith (2022): Cardiff University.
Amoret Trotman (2021): Cardiff University.
Charlie Hastings (2020): Cardiff University.
Dexter Cole (2019): Cardiff University.
Bayan Mohajeri Thaker (2018): Cardiff University.
Emily Tansley (2018): Cardiff University.
Adam Findlay (2017): Cardiff University.
Samir Gohil (2017): Cardiff University.
Aaron Turley (2017): Cardiff University.
Emma Richards (2016): Cardiff University.
Mohammed Ali (2016): Cardiff University.
Joshua Guy (2015): Cardiff University.
Summer Students:
Kayla Trafford (2017): UOIT, Canada.
Dale Lyons (2017): Cardiff University (CUROP).
Vladimir Vladimirov (2017): Cardiff University (CUROP).
Adam Cook (2016): UOIT, Canada (Queen's Scholarship).
Manon André (2016): High school of Chemistry, physical and Biology (ENCPB), Paris.
Vladimir Vladimirov (2016): Cardiff University (RSC Bursary).
Joe Bricknell (2016): Cardiff University.
Sadly no longer with us - Past Group Members