Group Member News

September 2025: Ben Clarke has passed his confirmation panel and starts the second year of his PhD after generating some excellent first year results.

October 2025: Herbert Andrews joins the group for his 4th year project developing and testing new OLED inspired photocatalysts.

October 2025: Eleanor Dilks joins the group for her BSc project developing new self-assembling molecules to improve depth resolution and molecular orientation analysis with XPS techniques.

Current Group Members

  • Group Leader: Dr Jonathan S. Ward
  • PhD student: Ben Clarke, 2024–present

Previous Group Members

  • MChem student: Herbert Andrews, 2025–2026
  • BSc student: Eleanor Dilks, 2025–2026
  • MChem student: Luke Farnan, 2024–2025
  • BSc student: Alex Hyatt-Bickle, 2024–2025
  • BSc student: Eleanor Cooke, 2023–2024