PhD Students and Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Rachel Dickman
Email:
rachael.dickman.13@ucl.ac.uk
UCL EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow
Interests:
Peptide synthesis and modification, organic synthesis
Education:
MChem Medicinal Chemistry, University of Manchester, 2009-2013
PhD, University College London, 2013-2018
Jointly supervised with Prof. Alethea Tabor

Katya Ahmad
Email: katya.ahmad.16@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
DNA nanotechnology, membrane-nanopore interactions, computational chemistry/biology
Education:
MSci Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London 2011-2016
Jointly supervised with Prof. Peter Coveney

Patrick Marthijn Arnott
Email:
Interests:
Nucleic acids chemistry
Education:
MChem with Medicinal Sciences, University of Southampton, 2011-2015

Daniel Offenbartl-Stiegert
Email:
daniel.offenbartl-stiegert.15@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
Nucleic acids chemistry, organic synthesis
Education:
MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery, University College London 2015-2016
BA Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2012-2015

Joanna Louise Donnelly
Email:
Interests:
Organic synthesis, nucleic acid chemistry, medicinal chemistry
Education:
MChem Chemistry, University of Southampton, 2011-2015
Jointly supervised with Dr. Jon Wilden

Ha Phuong Nguyen
Email:
Interests:
Organic synthesis, nucleic acid chemistry, cancer epigenetics
Education:
MRes Organic Chemistry: Drug Discovery, University College London, 2012-2013
BA & MSci Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2008-2012

Genevieve Pugh
Email:
Interests:
DNA origami, nanopores, protein sensing
Education:
MSci ARCS Chemistry, Imperial College London, 2010-2014

Gorjan Stojanovski
(Wellcome Trust Rotation Student)
Email: gorjan.stojanovski.17@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
Organic Synthesis, Bacterial Engineering, Antimicrobial resistance
Education:
BSc Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee 2014-2017
Master Students

Shiyi Anna Wang
(MRes Drug Discovery)
Email: shiyi.wang.18@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
Organic & medicinal chemistry
Education:
BA Natural Science - Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2015-2018

Farzaneh Ataei
(MSc Chemical Research)
Email: farzaneh.ataei.17@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
Nanobiotechnology
Education:
BSc Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, 2013-2016

Kai Chen
(MRes Drug Discovery)
Email: kai.chen.17@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
The application of organic chemistry
Education:
Bsc Chemistry, University of Sheffield 2014-2017

Katarina Korlova
(MSc Chemical Research)
Email: katarina.korlova.17@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
Nucleic acids, aptamers, DNA nanopores
Education:
BA Chemistry, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice 2014-2017

Charlie Haywood
(MSci Student)
Email:
Interests:
Organic Synthesis
Education:
MSci Medicinal Chemistry, UCL, 2013-2017

Luka Jelcic
(MSci Student)
Email:
Interests:
Nanotechnology, Bionanotechnology, Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Education:
MSci Chemistry, UCL, 2013-2017

Miguel Páez Pérez
(MRes Student)
Email:
Interests:
DNA nanotechnology, biological computing, drug delivery
Education:
BSc Biomedical Engineering,
Universidad Carlos III (2012-2016)

Delphine Blino
(Erasmus Student, Medicinal Chemistry)
Email:
Interests:
DNA nanopores
Education:
Chemical Engineering (Medicinal Chemistry), CPE Lyon, 2012-2016

Gurpreet Virdi
(MSci Student)
Email:
Interests:
Organic Synthesis
Education:
MSci Chemistry, UCL, 2012-2016

Matthew Ho Wai Chin
(Research Assistant)
Email:
Current:
BBSRC PhD Candidate, UCL
Education:
BEng ACGI MSc DIC Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2010-2014

Jungyeon Kim
(MSci Student)
Email:
jungyeon.kim.11@ucl.ac.uk
Interests:
DNA nanopores and amphiphilic block copolymers
Education:
MSci Chemistry, UCL, 2011-2015

Yasmin Surani
(MRes Drug Discovery)
Email:
Interests:
Small molecule drug discovery
Education:
BA Natural Sciences (Chemistry), University of Cambridge, 2010-2013

Roberta Lima de Castro Menezes
(MRes Synthetic Biology)
Email:
Interests:
Interdisciplinary research, standardisation of biology, medical diagnostics
Education:
BSc Biomedical Sciences, University of Southampton, 2007-2012