Cambridge Display Technology is the European R&D centre for Sumitomo Chemical.

My role accelerates the early-stage R&D of functional organic materials. I have strong experience in designing and synthesising and analysing new materials (small molecules and polymers) and working in an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. While my role is primarily based around synthetic organic chemistry, I heavily participate in the development of early-stage (proof-of-concept) projects, in laboratory automation and in the preparation of IP filings.

PhD Thesis: “Towards Polyyne Rotaxanes and Catenanes” Development of a new alkyne masking group towards extended polyynic systems and using masking groups and supramolecular chemistry to generate carbon-rich rotaxanes and catenanes.

Training & Experience:

• NMR: 1D & 2D experiments, variable temperature, DOSY and time-dependent studies
• Mass Spectrometry: LC-MS (ESI), GC-MS and MALDI
• Quantum chemical calculations (Gaussian/ORCA)
• Group IT officer (data backups, website & ELN management)
• Attended the University of Oxford intensive course in XRD

Responsibilities included:

• A summer placement supporting the R&D of organic polymers for emissive and transport layers in flexible OLED devices.
• Developed standard protocols for flow-based cycloadditions, Grignard/lithiations and Ullmann chemistry.

Masters Thesis: “Synthesis and spectroscopic study of lanthanide complexes”

Organic synthesis of lanthanide complexes for use as solvent polarity probes, observed by optical and NMR spectroscopic methods.