People in the JKMS Group

PhD Students

Ho Yu Au Yeung was born in Hong Kong in 1982. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004. He obtained his MPhil from the same university in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Hung Kay Lee, studying divalent transition metal complexes supported by sterically demanding amido ligands. In 2007 he commenced his PhD at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Jeremy Sanders.

Sophie Beeren was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983. She completed her undergraduate degree at The University of New South Wales, in Sydney. Her Honours project, carried out under the supervision of A. Prof Barbara Messerle, involved the synthesis and study of Ir and Rh complexes as cataylsts for hydroamination. She began her PhD in Jeremy Sanders' group in 2006, studying hydrazone dynamic combinatorial libraries.

Jörg Klein prepared his Diplomathesis in Synthesis: "Synthesis of carborane-substituted Polyacetylenes" working with Professor Josef Michl at the Academy of Sciences in Prague. He graduated from the University of Erlangen. He previously worked with Professor Francois Diederich on a project entitled "Synthesis of Inhibitors of the Trypanothione Reductase". His PhD project concerns Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries of G-Quadruplex Ligands to investigate their interaction with G-Quadruplex DNA.

Fabien Cougnon graduated from the University of Strasbourg (Louis Pasteur), France. He did his Masters degree under the supervison of Pr. Charles Tanielian which was titled "Laser flash photolysis and pulse radiolysis studies of decatungstate photocatalysed oxygenation". He has worked on the application of dynamic combinatorial chemistry to the synthesis of new catalysts with Dr. Sijbren Otto, before joining the Sanders Group in 2008.

Postdocs

Ana Belenguer was born in Madrid, Spain. She obtained a BSc in Organic Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid and a PhD at the City University of London under the supervision of Professor Stephen Matlin. She worked as a HPLC expert in various Research and Development departments of Pharmaceutical Industries (GSK, PowderJect, Pfizer). She is a postdoctoral research associate with Jeremy Sanders since January 2002, initially setting up the HPLC facilities for the group and currently working on Dynamic Combinatiorial Chemistry of Resorcinarenes.

Publications

Dan Pantos was born in Arad, Romania, in 1976. He attended the West University of Timisoara where he received his B.Sc. (1998), supervisor Dr. Ervin Sallo, and M.Sc. (2000), supervisor Prof. Zeno Simon. During the M.Sc. studies he was an Erasmus-Socrates graduate exchange student at Bremen University (1999-2000), supervisor Prof. Bernd Jastorff. He entered the University of Texas at Austin in Aug. 2000 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Oct. 2005 for work in the fields of expanded-porphyrin and pyrrole-based anion recognition chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler. In Jan. 2006 he joined the research group of Prof. Jeremy Sanders at the University of Cambridge. His current work concerns molecular recognition using a dynamic combinatorial approach.

Publications

Emiliano Tamanini studied at the University of Bologna (Italy) where he received his Ph.D. in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Panunzio. He then worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at Queen Mary, University of London (2005-2008) with Dr. Mike Watkinson and Dr. Matthew H. Todd, working on the synthesis of "click" generated bio and chemo-sensors. In June 2008 he joined the research group of Prof. Jeremy Sanders where he is a postdoctoral researcher working on dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

Collaborators

The Otto Group

Sijbren Otto received his M.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees cum laude from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He worked on physical organic chemistry in aqueous solutions in the group of Prof. Jan B. F. N. Engberts. In 1998 he moved to the United States for a year as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Steven L. Regen (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) investigating synthetic systems mediating ion transport through lipid bilayers. In 1999 he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the University of Cambridge where he worked for two years with Jeremy Sanders on dynamic combinatorial libraries. Sijbren started his independent research career in 2001 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He has recently taken up a post as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Otto Group Homepage

Luis Branco was born in Lisbon (Portugal). He obtained his degree in Chemistry (1998) at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. In 1999, he started a research project in the Institute of Chemical and Biology, Oeiras (Portugal) working on "Synthesis of Hexaaza and Pentaaza Macrocyles" (under the supervision of Prof. Rita Delgado). In 2000, he moved to the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Then, he received an European Research Grant supported by European Project titled "New Remediation Technology for Vaccine Production Effluents Containing Organomercurials". In 2002 he started his PhD at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, about "Development of New Ionic Liquids and their synthetic applications", under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Afonso. During his PhD in 2004, the group relocated to the IST, Technical University of Lisbon. Recently, he started a PostDoc mix grant between IST, Technical University of Lisbon (Prof. Carlos Afonso) and the Chemistry Department, Cambridge University (Sijbren Otto) working on reversible encapsulation.

Publications

Jacqui Carnall was born in Gravesend, England, in 1982. She read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating with an MSci in 2005. The final year of her undergraduate degree was spent working in the research group of Dr. Jonathan Goodman, studying catalytic sulfur ylide epoxidation. In 2005 she commenced a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Sijbren Otto, studying reinforced molecular recognition.

Rosy Hunt was born in 1982 and brought up in Ipswich, UK. She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and obtained an MSci in 2006, including a final year project working on the synthesis of cationic monomers for libraries to recognise anions in the group of Sijbren Otto.

Nick Bampos

Former Group Members

Yana Hristova.

Michael Pittelkow.

Matthew Webb.

Fred Ludlow.

Friederike Mansfeld.

Jerome Peyralans.

Zaida Rodríguez-Docampo.

Tomasz Zielinski.

Karine Barral.

Jingyuan Liu.

Jean-Luc Wietor.

Chantelle Bondy.

Greg Davidson.

Diana Gonçalves.

Elisa Iengo.

Ruby Lam.

Ruth Pèrez.

Lukas Scherer.

Lok Tong.

Paolo Pengo.

Ann Chomchai Suksai.

Laurent Vial.

Peter Corbett is currently working at the Unilever Centre, Cambridge, conducting postdoctoral research on the automated extraction of information from chemical texts, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Murray-Rust and in collaboration with the Natural Language and Information Processing group at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

ptc24@cam.ac.uk

Andreas Hille.

Since 2005 Julien Leclaire was appointed as an assistant professor at the Ecole Generaliste d'Ingénieur de Marseille (France), working on biomimetic catalysis and entioselective biocatalysis.

julien.leclaire@egim-mrs.fr

Hongxia Li is professor at the Center of Chemical Laboratory, Hebei Polytechnic University, Tangshan (China).

hxli@heut.edu.cn

Sofia Pascu is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Draper's Research Fellow at at Oxford (St Anne's College). She is currently setting up an independent research group working towards targeted delivery of radiopharmaceuticals using single wall carbon nanotubes and dynamic nanocapsules, which will eventually encapsulate radioisotopes such as Cu-64 with applicability in imaging and therapy. This project continues to involve a strong collaboration with Prof. Sanders's and Dr Otto's group.

sofia.pascu@chem.ox.ac.uk