Dr Oxana Kotova
SFI Post-Doctoral Researcher (2011 – present)
IRCSET Post-Doctoral Fellow (2009 – 2011)
PhD, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
e-mail: kotovao@tcd.ie
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Oxana’s research interests are in the self-assembly systems and f-metal coordination sub-group which she coordinates. Her research focuses heavily on materials development of lanthanide-containing soft matter in the design of novel chiral gelators as well as discrete complex design. Prior to joining the group Oxana held positions at Moscow State University and the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. As well as short-term scientific missions in Belgium, Sweden and Germany.
Key Publications:
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 457-471 (DOI: 10.1039/c4sc02474e)
Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19 (48), 16181-16186 (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303660)
ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (6), 4838–4845 (DOI: 10.1021/nn305813y); Irish Times article; TCD News article
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7208–7212 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201506)
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6810-6812 (DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11810B)
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Dr. Adam Henwood
SFI Postdoctoral Researcher (2017 – present)
PhD in Chemistry, University of St Andrews (2017)
MSc, Durham University (2013)
e-mail: henwooda@tcd.ie
Having completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Eli Zysman-Colman. Adam previously completed a Masters at Durham University in the group of Gareth Williams. His experience in the photophysics of iridium and platinum complexes, and spin coated devices makes him a great addition to the group.
Key Publications:
Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 807-826. (DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06729H)
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3726-3737. (DOI: 10.1039/C6TC00151C)
Faraday Discuss., 2014,174, 165-182. (DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00107A)
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 9638-9650. (DOI: 10.1039/C7TC03110F )
Dr. Tumpa Gorai
Post-Doctoral researcher, Trinity College Dublin (2019– present)
Post-Doctoral fellow, Pohang University of Science and Technology (2017-April, 2019)
PhD (2016) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
MSc (2011) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Tumpa joined Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson’s group as an Irish research council postdoctoral fellow in October 2019. Her research interest is in the area of chiral luminescent lanthanide-based functional materials. Before joining the group she was a postdoctoral researcher in Pohang University of Science and Technology, working in the area of the artificial cell. She obtained her PhD in the area of supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Uday Maitra from the Department of Organic Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and her thesis title was “Lanthanide based hydrogels in sensing, energy transfer, and nanoparticle synthesis”.
Key publications:
ACS Sens. 2016, 1, 934. (DOI:10.1021/acssensors.6b00341.)
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018, 6, 2143. (DOI:10.1039/C7TB02657A)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 10730. (DOI:10.1002/anie.201704738)
Dr. Helen O’Connor
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Helen is originally from Dublin and completed her BSc at UCD where she worked with Dr Grace Morgan for her final year project. She moved to Edinburgh to join the group of Prof. Euan Brechin as a Principal Career Development Scholar, where her thesis focused on the study of magnetic supramolecular capsules. After her PhD, she joined the group of Dr Paul Lusby as a PDRA, where she investigated both diamagnetic and paramagnetic supramolecular structures for use as catalysts and/or magnetic qubits. She returns to Dublin as a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow and will be investigating the use of supramolecular complexes for use as pollutant sensors.
Key Publications:
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 11799. (DOI: 10.1039/D0CC05311B )
Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 3500. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02674)
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 5526. (DOI: 10.1039/C7SC00487G)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 127, 6865. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501041)
Dr. Harlei Martin
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (2021 – present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS – Orléans (2020 – 2021)
Assistant Lecturer, Maynooth University (2019 – 2020)
PhD in Chemistry, Maynooth University (2019)
Harlei completed her PhD in 2019 in Maynooth University under the supervision of Dr Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos. Her work involved the synthesis and biological evaluation of glycoconjugates as anti-adhesion ligands against pathogenic Candida albicans. After her PhD, she worked as an assistant lecturer in the Chemistry Department of Maynooth University, teaching Organic and Medicinal Chemistry modules. She then moved to Orléans, France as a postdoctoral researcher working on responsive contrast agents for cation detection under the supervision of former group member Dr Célia Bonnet. Harlei joined the group in September 2021 under the co-supervision of Assoc. Prof. Eoin Scanlan as an IRC postdoctoral fellow and will be investigating glycosylated napthalimides as prodrugs for cancer therapy.
Recent Former Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Sandra Estalayo Adrián
Dr. Chris Hawes (Keele)
Dr. Salvador Blasco
Dr. Gearoid O’Maille
Dr. Jonathan Kitchen
Dr Fergus Poynton
Dr. Niamh Murray
Dr. Ena Luis
Gunnlaugsson Group, Trinity College Dublin 