Experience

Puraffinity

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development Scientist

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  ♦ Designing sorbent materials for removal of PFAS from water ♦ Researching new directions in sorbent development ♦ Data analysis of current data packages aiming to discover material performance relationships ♦ Developing and continuously applying new safety measures to the lab working alongside the safety team ♦ Working alongside engineering team to test sorbents in real world conditions and design POU devices ♦ Optimising current materials to continuously improve performance ♦ Working with external stakeholders and scale-up partners to ramp up production of our sorbent media ♦ Member of the EDI committee working on ensuring that Puraffinity is an equal opportunities and diverse company Show less



University of Liverpool

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

  ♦ Funded by ExxonMobil working with Prof. Andrew Cooper FRS ♦ Project aims to discover and synthesis new porous materials through computational screening of chemical space to find new and interesting organic building blocks ♦ Direct supervisor of PhD student working on the project ♦ Synthesis of wide array of porous materials ♦ As a senior member of the group help with the general safe running of the lab which includes authorising COSHH forms, signing off overnight experiment forms, ensuring lab jobs are completed ♦ During lockdown ran the gas sorption isotherms for the group, processed the data and provided individual training to users on how to use the equipment, change gas cylinders, process data ♦ Co-chair of the research staff committee helping to organise training and development for postdocs at the university, liaising with senior university leadership and providing a voice for postdocs at the university ♦ Organiser of NPDC21 which includes organising 30 parallel sessions, 8 pre-networking activities, galvanising sponsors, working with a larger 25 member Steering group, managing social media promotion ♦ Member of the first cohort of the Prosper scheme, a new career development pilot scheme funded by Research England (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/prosper/) Show less



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Student

  • Sep 2016 - Oct 2019

  ♦ Thesis Title "Microporous Polymers Tailored For Applications in Solution and Sustainability" (https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/25953/) ♦ Design and synthesis of a novel type of porous polymer capable of being dispersed and used in the solution phase ♦ 7 publications resulting from PhD ♦ Gave 4 talks at national and international conferences, winning best talk at UKPorMat2019 ♦ Supervision of 9 students including 7 MChem students, 1 summer student and 1 visiting student ♦ 1st ever PhD student in a new research group ♦ Awarded £2000 in competitive funding by the EPSRC and University of Sheffield to hire a summer student to work on a project of my own idea - involved in the hiring process including interview and CV shortlisting ♦ Awarded £750 funding by the royal society of chemistry to develop outreach activities to local schools in the Sheffield area which were in low income areas ♦ Experience in ATRP and RAFT polymerisation methods as well as polymerisation induced self-assembly ♦ Experience in synthesis of porous polymers such as HCPs, PIMs, vinyl-crosslinked polymers and linear polymers ♦ Characterisation methods such as NMR, FTIR, TGA, GPC, DLS, gas sorption, SAXS and more used throughout my PhD ♦ Delivered training to new PhD students in the group ♦ Volunteered at university open days ♦ Helped organise and run public outreach events such as the chemistry of the circus events and discovery night Show less