Group Members

Group 15/06/26

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)

Darragh O'Brien

Research Assistant/ MRes Sustainable Materials and the Environment

Ula Dudek

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

Group Alumni

Smital Patil

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

Visitors, UCC Project students and Interns

Erasmus

Sacha Martin (École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France, 2026); Alberto Boban (Università di Bologna, Italy, 2027)

PhotoCAT (SATLE Fund) Research Assistants 2026:

Joseph Murphy (BSc Chemistry with Forensic IV), Joseph Marley and Eamon Canty (BSc Chemistry III)

Previous Final Year Project Students

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)