People
Visiting researchers
Dr Marwa Rizk (Alexandria University, Egypt)
Dr Fatimah (University of Indonesia)
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellows
Dr Mary Strimaite
Dr Ben Fiedler
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Eva Tsolaki (jointly with Dr Jonathan Burley)
PhD students
Ines Colic (jointly with Prof Ahad Rahim)
Lixiang Zhao (jointly with Prof Mine Orlu)
Nour All Ahham (jointly with Dr Asma Buanz and Prof Steve Brocchini)
Carissa Ponan (jointly with Dr Kreso Bucar and Prof Christoph Salzmann)
Yuexin Wang (jointly with Dr Linh Nguyen)
Lulwah Albassam (jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Tian Ju (jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Fangyuan Zhang (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Ye Chan Oh (jointly with Prof Abdul Basit)
Mazna Almatroudi (jointly with Dr Chris Morris)
Bochen Lyu (jointly with Prof Helen Hailes)
Nanang Qosim (jointly with Prof Mohan Edirisinghe)
Mathilde Ullrich (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Latifa Allahou (jointly with Dr Alessandro Poma)
Basmala Qaysson (principal supervisor: Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Luyao Wang (jointly with Dr Mike Cook)
Parisa Adibi Sedeh (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Hanwen Xu (jointly with Prof Mohan Edirisinghe)
Karina Wojdat (1851 Industry Fellow, based at Sygnature Discovery; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Xinyue Song (jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Visiting students
Chen Xu (Donghua University, China)
MSc students
None at present
MPharm students
None at present
BSc students
None at present
Previous group members
Visiting academics and researchers
2025
Dr Yang Liu (University of South China, China)
Dr Xinrui Wang (Beijing Technology and Business University, China)
2024
Dr Danushika Manatunga (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Dr Olha Mykhailenko (National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2023
Dr Danushika Manatunga (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
2021
Dr Jana Hlinková (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague)
2020
Anabela Moreira (Biofabics)
2019
Dr Aiva Simaite (InoCure)
2018
Dr Yasmin Abozeid (Helwan University, Egypt)
2015
Prof Deng-Guang Yu (Shanghai University for Science and Technology)
2014
Dr Truoung Quoc Phong (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
Prof Xiaodong Lei (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2013
Prof Dongpeng Yan (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
Research fellows
Dr Stephen Preston (2021 - 2023)
Dr Fenglei Zhou (jointly with Prof Geoff Parker; 2019 - 2023)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2021 - 2022)
Dr Gayathri Kollamaram (2019 - 2020)
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Victoria Roberton (2019 - 2025; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Holly Gregory (2023 - 2025; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Sara Elyasi Bakhtiari (2022 - 2024)
Dr Sebastian Gurgul (2021 - 2022)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2020 - 2021; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Rita Trindade (2019 - 2020; jointly with Dr James Phillips)
Dr Ukrit Angkawinitwong (2018 - 2019)
Dr Zeeneh El-Said (2016 - 2017)
Dr Zeynep Aytac (2017)
Dr Bilal Ahmad (2014 - 2016)
Dr Jennifer Quiros Jimenez (2015)
Dr Ilona Kubajewska (2014 - 2015)
Dr Breogan Pato (2014)
PhD students
Dr Sai Liu (2025; jointly with Prof Mine Orlu)
Dr Corinna Schlosser (2024; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Yingchang Ma (2024; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Mark Hardmeier (2024; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Marwa Rizk (2024; principal supervisor: Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Yuhao Geng (2023; jointly with Dr Asma Buanz)
Dr Mary Strimaite (2023; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Fatimah (2023; jointly with Dr George Pasparakis)
Dr Sara Elyasi Bakhtiari (2022; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Ziwei Zhang (2021; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Yuying Pang (2021; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Dr Jugal Suthar (2021; jointly with Dr Stefan Guldin)
Dr Maha Muwaffak (2021; jointly with Prof Ahad Rahim)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2021; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Raphael Egbu (2021; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Sebastian Gurgul (2020)
Dr Lesley Onyekuru (2020; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Haitham Bukhary (2019; jointly with Dr Mine Orlu)
Dr Rita Trindade (2018; jointly with Prof Ajoy Velayudhan)
Dr Dania Grant-Serroukh (2018; jointly with Prof Steve Hart)
Dr Brenda Sanchez Vazquez (2018; jointly with Dr George Pasparakis)
Dr Alex Clout (2017; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford and Dr Christoph Salzmann)
Dr Ukrit Angkawinitwong (2017; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Charlotte Maughan (2017; jointly with Prof Jawwad Darr)
Dr Yacine Kaassis (2015; jointly with Dr Nick Chatterton)
Dr Eranka Illangakoon (2015; jointly with Dr Nick Chatterton)
Dr Miao Jin (2015; jointly with Prof Annie Bligh)
Research assistant
Laura Alquezar (2017 - 2018)
MRes students
2018-19
Lixiang Zhao
2015-16
Yadong Xu
MSc students
2024
Congliang Fu
Savani Deshpande
Hannah Yang
2023
Emmanuel Asare
Harshita Dani
Qianwen Hou
Jixuan Li
Pritha Pagare
Wojciech Rozek
Ziqi Yu
2022
Xiao Guo
Yiran Liu
Shiying Lu
Angeliki Meletsi
Yilin Yang
Fangqi Zhu
Luke Bell
2021
Meng Li
Sai Liu
Matthew Martin
Dimitrios Pentafragkas
Sandra Tuhairwe
Yi Xiao
2020
Jiangqi Feng
Yunzhi Gu
Yi Liang Jiang
Wenhan Li
Xiaoxuan Tan
2019
Shihui Cao
Yuhao Geng
Xueyuan Guo
Weizheng Li
Christos-Georgios Nikoletopoulos
Kang Xia
2018
Ameed Abualteen
Nour All Ahham
Huan Duan
Hussein Ghoneim
Sarah Han
Mariam Mohamud
2017
Kieran Burgess
Mayura Das
Benjamin Yik
Wenqiu Zhang
Qiaobei Zou
2016
Dong Jia
Khushali Patel
Suzanne Renes
Josh Rizza
2015
Hao-Yun Lo
Yuying Pang
Bertha Adjei
2014
Anshul Narula
Anum Malik
2013
Samir Husain
Luciana Herda
London Met
Chenfei Gao
Roopali Macha
Anusha Maram
Syed Taj
Zhibin Huang
Yiqing Xu
Raja Gopal Reddy
Mallika Piratla
Padma Penmatcha
Anusha Paruchuri
Erum Noureen
Murali Bollini
Dalila Touhami
Rasesh Patel
Selma Richardson-Chong
MSci students
2024
Beatrice Britton (jointly with Dr Adam Clancy)
2023
Mathilde Ullrich
MPharm students
2025
Josep Aumatell Valls
2024
Ellen Sorial
Dina Vafakish Sistani
2023
Helia Mahdinezhad Kashani
Adam Nasser-Shah
2022
Zunoorain Yousaf
Munjarin Rowshan
2021
Tara Pishgali
Sophia Saebi
2020
Yvette Lam
Ana Lojen
2019
Ashton Liu
Eunice Yeow Eu Ning
Francesca Zhu
2018
Eva Lau
Karishma Patel
Boris Stefanov
Carlton Lai
Seong Jin Park
2017
Tian Wei Teoh
Garry Chong
Andrew Yuen
2015
Narges Akhavan Farid
Wing-Mei Tsui
Zahra Younis
2014
Adam Zumla
Ali Mohammed
Tanjila Rahman
2013
Naresh Hingorani
BSc students
UCL
2025
Kamal Baharin
2024
Qistina Mohd Adil
London Met
Wenqian Zhang
Yudi Wu
Reza Hoque
Jinyi Dou
Xinyuan Lu
Paula Burak
Saika Ghafar
Alex Clout
Matt Jones
Su Hua
Kavy Fung
Visiting students
2024
Jiaxin Luo (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2023
Yao Hu (Jiangnan University, China)
Barbara Lechnika (CDT student, working jointly with Prof Daniel Stuckey and Prof Jonathan Knowles)
2022
Mark Meszarik (UCL Laidlaw Scholar)
2021
Mazna Almatroudi (CDT student; jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Marissa Taub (CDT student; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
2020
Corinna Schlosser (CDT student, jointly with Prof Suwan Jayasinghe)
Diba Keyhanfar (CDT student, jointly with Dr Kreso Bucar)
2019
Ronja Ebner (Erasmus student, Heidelberg University)
Yu-Jing Chiu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
2018
Umayangana Godakanda (University of Colombo)
Heyu Li (Donghua University)
Yuwei Wang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
Francesca Gavins (CDT student)
Holly Gregory (CDT student)
Mary Strimaite (CDT student)
2017
Yanshan Gao (Beijing Forestry University)
Clarissa Harman (CDT student)
Kenneth Ho (CDT student)
2016
Leonia Naβwetter (Erasmus student, Heidelberg University)
Brigi Bodák (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Jie Tiang (University of Queensland)
Jack Rutter (LIDo student)
Sarah Trenfield (CDT student)
Maha Muwaffak (CDT student)
Jugal Suthar (CDT student)
2015
Kasia Mocniak (University of St Andrews)
Yanshan Gao (Beijing Forestry University)
Alex Keeley (CDT student)
Fabrizio Fina (CDT student)
Alja Prah (Erasmus student, University of Ljubljana)
Qasim Jaffri (UCL summer student)
Alexandra Baskakova (Belgorod State University)
2014
Dania Grant-Serroukh (CDT student)
Sean Askin (CDT student)
Ruizheng Liang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2013
Alison Keating (CDT student)
Felipe Lopez (CDT student, jointly supervised with Dr Simon Gaisford)
Daniela Lobo (Erasmus student)
Dr Marwa Rizk (Alexandria University, Egypt)
Dr Fatimah (University of Indonesia)
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellows
Dr Mary Strimaite
Dr Ben Fiedler
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Eva Tsolaki (jointly with Dr Jonathan Burley)
PhD students
Ines Colic (jointly with Prof Ahad Rahim)
Lixiang Zhao (jointly with Prof Mine Orlu)
Nour All Ahham (jointly with Dr Asma Buanz and Prof Steve Brocchini)
Carissa Ponan (jointly with Dr Kreso Bucar and Prof Christoph Salzmann)
Yuexin Wang (jointly with Dr Linh Nguyen)
Lulwah Albassam (jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Tian Ju (jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Fangyuan Zhang (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Ye Chan Oh (jointly with Prof Abdul Basit)
Mazna Almatroudi (jointly with Dr Chris Morris)
Bochen Lyu (jointly with Prof Helen Hailes)
Nanang Qosim (jointly with Prof Mohan Edirisinghe)
Mathilde Ullrich (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Latifa Allahou (jointly with Dr Alessandro Poma)
Basmala Qaysson (principal supervisor: Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Luyao Wang (jointly with Dr Mike Cook)
Parisa Adibi Sedeh (jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Hanwen Xu (jointly with Prof Mohan Edirisinghe)
Karina Wojdat (1851 Industry Fellow, based at Sygnature Discovery; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Xinyue Song (jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Visiting students
Chen Xu (Donghua University, China)
MSc students
None at present
MPharm students
None at present
BSc students
None at present
Previous group members
Visiting academics and researchers
2025
Dr Yang Liu (University of South China, China)
Dr Xinrui Wang (Beijing Technology and Business University, China)
2024
Dr Danushika Manatunga (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Dr Olha Mykhailenko (National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2023
Dr Danushika Manatunga (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
2021
Dr Jana Hlinková (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague)
2020
Anabela Moreira (Biofabics)
2019
Dr Aiva Simaite (InoCure)
2018
Dr Yasmin Abozeid (Helwan University, Egypt)
2015
Prof Deng-Guang Yu (Shanghai University for Science and Technology)
2014
Dr Truoung Quoc Phong (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
Prof Xiaodong Lei (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2013
Prof Dongpeng Yan (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
Research fellows
Dr Stephen Preston (2021 - 2023)
Dr Fenglei Zhou (jointly with Prof Geoff Parker; 2019 - 2023)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2021 - 2022)
Dr Gayathri Kollamaram (2019 - 2020)
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Victoria Roberton (2019 - 2025; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Holly Gregory (2023 - 2025; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Sara Elyasi Bakhtiari (2022 - 2024)
Dr Sebastian Gurgul (2021 - 2022)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2020 - 2021; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
Dr Rita Trindade (2019 - 2020; jointly with Dr James Phillips)
Dr Ukrit Angkawinitwong (2018 - 2019)
Dr Zeeneh El-Said (2016 - 2017)
Dr Zeynep Aytac (2017)
Dr Bilal Ahmad (2014 - 2016)
Dr Jennifer Quiros Jimenez (2015)
Dr Ilona Kubajewska (2014 - 2015)
Dr Breogan Pato (2014)
PhD students
Dr Sai Liu (2025; jointly with Prof Mine Orlu)
Dr Corinna Schlosser (2024; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Yingchang Ma (2024; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Mark Hardmeier (2024; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Marwa Rizk (2024; principal supervisor: Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Yuhao Geng (2023; jointly with Dr Asma Buanz)
Dr Mary Strimaite (2023; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Fatimah (2023; jointly with Dr George Pasparakis)
Dr Sara Elyasi Bakhtiari (2022; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Ziwei Zhang (2021; jointly with Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)
Dr Yuying Pang (2021; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford)
Dr Jugal Suthar (2021; jointly with Dr Stefan Guldin)
Dr Maha Muwaffak (2021; jointly with Prof Ahad Rahim)
Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz (2021; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Raphael Egbu (2021; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Sebastian Gurgul (2020)
Dr Lesley Onyekuru (2020; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Haitham Bukhary (2019; jointly with Dr Mine Orlu)
Dr Rita Trindade (2018; jointly with Prof Ajoy Velayudhan)
Dr Dania Grant-Serroukh (2018; jointly with Prof Steve Hart)
Dr Brenda Sanchez Vazquez (2018; jointly with Dr George Pasparakis)
Dr Alex Clout (2017; jointly with Prof Simon Gaisford and Dr Christoph Salzmann)
Dr Ukrit Angkawinitwong (2017; jointly with Prof Steve Brocchini)
Dr Charlotte Maughan (2017; jointly with Prof Jawwad Darr)
Dr Yacine Kaassis (2015; jointly with Dr Nick Chatterton)
Dr Eranka Illangakoon (2015; jointly with Dr Nick Chatterton)
Dr Miao Jin (2015; jointly with Prof Annie Bligh)
Research assistant
Laura Alquezar (2017 - 2018)
MRes students
2018-19
Lixiang Zhao
2015-16
Yadong Xu
MSc students
2024
Congliang Fu
Savani Deshpande
Hannah Yang
2023
Emmanuel Asare
Harshita Dani
Qianwen Hou
Jixuan Li
Pritha Pagare
Wojciech Rozek
Ziqi Yu
2022
Xiao Guo
Yiran Liu
Shiying Lu
Angeliki Meletsi
Yilin Yang
Fangqi Zhu
Luke Bell
2021
Meng Li
Sai Liu
Matthew Martin
Dimitrios Pentafragkas
Sandra Tuhairwe
Yi Xiao
2020
Jiangqi Feng
Yunzhi Gu
Yi Liang Jiang
Wenhan Li
Xiaoxuan Tan
2019
Shihui Cao
Yuhao Geng
Xueyuan Guo
Weizheng Li
Christos-Georgios Nikoletopoulos
Kang Xia
2018
Ameed Abualteen
Nour All Ahham
Huan Duan
Hussein Ghoneim
Sarah Han
Mariam Mohamud
2017
Kieran Burgess
Mayura Das
Benjamin Yik
Wenqiu Zhang
Qiaobei Zou
2016
Dong Jia
Khushali Patel
Suzanne Renes
Josh Rizza
2015
Hao-Yun Lo
Yuying Pang
Bertha Adjei
2014
Anshul Narula
Anum Malik
2013
Samir Husain
Luciana Herda
London Met
Chenfei Gao
Roopali Macha
Anusha Maram
Syed Taj
Zhibin Huang
Yiqing Xu
Raja Gopal Reddy
Mallika Piratla
Padma Penmatcha
Anusha Paruchuri
Erum Noureen
Murali Bollini
Dalila Touhami
Rasesh Patel
Selma Richardson-Chong
MSci students
2024
Beatrice Britton (jointly with Dr Adam Clancy)
2023
Mathilde Ullrich
MPharm students
2025
Josep Aumatell Valls
2024
Ellen Sorial
Dina Vafakish Sistani
2023
Helia Mahdinezhad Kashani
Adam Nasser-Shah
2022
Zunoorain Yousaf
Munjarin Rowshan
2021
Tara Pishgali
Sophia Saebi
2020
Yvette Lam
Ana Lojen
2019
Ashton Liu
Eunice Yeow Eu Ning
Francesca Zhu
2018
Eva Lau
Karishma Patel
Boris Stefanov
Carlton Lai
Seong Jin Park
2017
Tian Wei Teoh
Garry Chong
Andrew Yuen
2015
Narges Akhavan Farid
Wing-Mei Tsui
Zahra Younis
2014
Adam Zumla
Ali Mohammed
Tanjila Rahman
2013
Naresh Hingorani
BSc students
UCL
2025
Kamal Baharin
2024
Qistina Mohd Adil
London Met
Wenqian Zhang
Yudi Wu
Reza Hoque
Jinyi Dou
Xinyuan Lu
Paula Burak
Saika Ghafar
Alex Clout
Matt Jones
Su Hua
Kavy Fung
Visiting students
2024
Jiaxin Luo (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2023
Yao Hu (Jiangnan University, China)
Barbara Lechnika (CDT student, working jointly with Prof Daniel Stuckey and Prof Jonathan Knowles)
2022
Mark Meszarik (UCL Laidlaw Scholar)
2021
Mazna Almatroudi (CDT student; jointly with Dr Karolina Dziemidowicz)
Marissa Taub (CDT student; jointly with Prof James Phillips)
2020
Corinna Schlosser (CDT student, jointly with Prof Suwan Jayasinghe)
Diba Keyhanfar (CDT student, jointly with Dr Kreso Bucar)
2019
Ronja Ebner (Erasmus student, Heidelberg University)
Yu-Jing Chiu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
2018
Umayangana Godakanda (University of Colombo)
Heyu Li (Donghua University)
Yuwei Wang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
Francesca Gavins (CDT student)
Holly Gregory (CDT student)
Mary Strimaite (CDT student)
2017
Yanshan Gao (Beijing Forestry University)
Clarissa Harman (CDT student)
Kenneth Ho (CDT student)
2016
Leonia Naβwetter (Erasmus student, Heidelberg University)
Brigi Bodák (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Jie Tiang (University of Queensland)
Jack Rutter (LIDo student)
Sarah Trenfield (CDT student)
Maha Muwaffak (CDT student)
Jugal Suthar (CDT student)
2015
Kasia Mocniak (University of St Andrews)
Yanshan Gao (Beijing Forestry University)
Alex Keeley (CDT student)
Fabrizio Fina (CDT student)
Alja Prah (Erasmus student, University of Ljubljana)
Qasim Jaffri (UCL summer student)
Alexandra Baskakova (Belgorod State University)
2014
Dania Grant-Serroukh (CDT student)
Sean Askin (CDT student)
Ruizheng Liang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
2013
Alison Keating (CDT student)
Felipe Lopez (CDT student, jointly supervised with Dr Simon Gaisford)
Daniela Lobo (Erasmus student)