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Ellesmere Port, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

• PhD Student within the Materials for Demanding Environments (M4DE) CDT at The University of Manchester sponsored by Rolls Royce. Investigating the mechanism of diffusion, degradation and corrosion of Rare Earth (RE).
• Materials synthesis, characterisation (expertise in SEM, EDX and XRD analysis) and mechanism analysis.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Demonstrating, teaching and marking a variety of masters level courses. Assessment and critical evaluation of written work.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Provided a sixth form student with hands-on experience of professional research environment during a summer placement. The student gains insight into a variety of STEM careers.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Developed and delivered activities to inspire and engage school and college students from across Greater Manchester.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• A scale up chemist involved in the synthesis and scale up of cadmium free quantum dots, taking processes from R&D scale (<1L) to production (>20L), acting as a bridge between R&D and pilot plant scale.
• Process development from millilitre to multi-litre scale.
• Headhunted as part of a small Nanoco team to provide onsite technical support in transferring Nanoco technology from lab scale to plant scale at DOW facility in Korea.
• Large-scale-batch production (1L-10L).
• Use of LabVIEW and of fully automated reactor systems.
• Air sensitive chemistry and safe handling of pyrophorics.

Runcorn

• Synthesising a diverse range of chemical compounds for global pharmaceutical companies with specialism in high pressure chemistry and Fluorination reactions.
• Multi-step synthesis from mg to multi-Kg scale (e.g. Hydrogenation, Redox and butyl lithium reactions)
• Delivering target molecules to high specifications under tight schedules and budgets for top tier pharmaceutical clients.
• High pressure autoclave fluorination reactions involving Hydrogen Fluoride.
• Characterisations (NMR, MS, GC, IR)

Manchester, United Kingdom

Synthesising new dye systems as part of a year long MChem project. Project was carried out in collaboration with Dystar UK onsite at Manchester University. Optimised existing reactions and novel BDF dyes through Suzuki cross couplings.

Mchem, Chemistry, 2:1

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Science

PhD Student within the Materials for Demanding Environments (M4DE) CDT at The University of Manchester sponsored by Rolls Royce..