Group Members

Dr David J. Jones

Principal Investigator | Lecturer in Sustainable Organic Synthesis

Dr Eimear Courtney

Postdoctoral Researcher (SOS-Phosphorus)

Gian Reber

PhD Student (SOS-Phosphorus)

Meadhbh Coomey

Government of Ireland PhD Scholar

Lauren Walsh

Government of Ireland PhD Scholar (Enterprise Partner: Eli Lilly)

Ula Dudek

Government of Ireland PhD Scholar (Joint with Prof G McGlacken)

Emma Sheridan

MRes Sustainable Materials and the Environment

Greg Troy

MRes Sustainable Materials and the Environment

Group Alumni

Darragh O'Brien

MRes 2026. Thesis: Studies in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Postin and Phostin Natural Products

Smital Patil

MSc 2025 - Thesis: Using 31P NMR Spectroscopy for Enantiopurity Measurement in Organophosphorus Compounds

Visitors and Project Students/Interns

Erasmus

2026/7 (incoming) - Alberto Boban (Università di Bologna, Italy, 2027); Sandra Hönig (Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 2027)

2025/6 - Sacha Martin (École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France, 2026);

Final Year Project Students (UCC)

2026/7 - Ronan Harrington (BSc Chemistry IV), Chloe Flynn (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds IV), Michelle O'Driscoll (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds IV)

2025/6 - Caoimhe Donovan (MPharm), Nikita Liasiuk (BSc Chemistry IV), Aoibhe O’Donnell (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds. IV), Emma Sheridan (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds. IV)

2024/5 - Emma Braham (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds. IV); Jack Appelbe (BSc Chem. Pharm. Cpds. IV), Borys Shvalov (BSc Chemistry IV), Caoimhe Donovan (BPharm)

Undergraduate Summer Students

PhotoCAT (SATLE Fund) Research Assistants 2026: Joseph Murphy (BSc Chemistry with Forensics IV), Joseph Marley and Eamon Canty (BSc Chemistry III)

PhotoCAT (SATLE fund) Researchers 2026 - LR: Eamon Canty, Joseph Murphy and Joseph Marley

2025/6 - Nikita Liasiuk (BSc Chemistry III)

2024/5 - Nikita Liasiuk (BSc Chemistry II), Elaine Wang (BSc Chemistry III)