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The Symes Group at the University of Glasgow was established in October 2013, and is always looking for new members - click the Contact tab for more information. Our current members are:

Mark D. Symes


Group Leader

ORCID: 0000-0001-8067-5240

MSci (Cambridge), 2005; PhD (Edinburgh) 2009


Read more about Mark here


Office: A5-12

Email: mark.symes@glasgow.ac.uk

Zeliha Ertekin


Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD in Chemistry (Hacettepe University, Turkey), 2016


Email: Zeliha.Ertekin@glasgow.ac.uk

Lukman A. Yusuf


Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD in Electronics & Electrical Engineering (University of Glasgow), 2022.

M.Eng in Electrical Engineering (BUK, Nigeria), 2015.

B.Eng in Electrical Engineering (KUST, Nigeria), 2010.


Email: Lukman.Yusuf@glasgow.ac.uk

Abhishek Rajput


Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD in PhD in Physics (Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, India), 2022.


Email: abhishek.rajput@glasgow.ac.uk

Hannah Dickinson


PhD student

MChem in Chemistry (Durham University, with international placement at TU/e, Netherlands), 2020


Email: 2594143D@student.gla.ac.uk

Abdulhai Hani A Faqeeh


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia), 2016

MSc in Chemistry (University of Glasgow), 2020


Email: 2490521F@student.gla.ac.uk

Obeten Mbang Eze


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (CRUTECH, Nigeria), 2010

MSc in Physical Chemistry (University of Leicester, UK), 2016


Email: m.obeten.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Ahmed Aboorh


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia), 2014

MSc in Physical Chemistry (University of Leicester, United Kingdom), 2020


Email: 2729650a@student.gla.ac.uk

Dan Broadhurst


PhD student

MSci Chemistry with work placement (Glasgow), 2022


Email: 2234425b@student.gla.ac.uk

Fiona Todman


PhD student

MChem in Chemistry (Heriot-Watt University), 2022


Email: f.todman.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Liang (Wesley) Lyu


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (Fudan University), 2020

MSc in Chemistry (University of Glasgow), 2022


Email: 2696339L@student.gla.ac.uk

Shaun Fletcher


PhD student

MSci in Chemistry and Mathematics (University of Glasgow), 2023


Email: s.fletcher.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Shuaiwei Cui


PhD student

BEng in Polymer Science and Engineering (Qingdao University of Science and Technology), 2019

MEng in Materials Engineering (Qingdao University of Science and Technology), 2022


Email: 2827839C@student.gla.ac.uk

Rabiya Javed Awan


Visiting PhD student (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

BSc Applied Chem (GCUF, Pakistan), 2014-2018

MSc Applied Chem (University of Punjab, Pakistan), 2018-2020


Email: 2956607a@student.gla.ac.uk

Alex Pitman


MRes student

BSc Chemistry (University of Glasgow), 2023


Email: 2439461P@student.gla.ac.uk

Former members of The Symes Group:

David Pickles, PDRA, 2023-2024


Hossam Mohamed Gomaa Amin, Rest in peace


Halilu Sale, PhD student, graduated 2024


Nada Alhathlaul, PhD student, graduated 2024


Calum Hope, PhD student, graduated 2023


Patrick McHugh, PhD student, graduated 2023


Thanasis Stergiou, PhD student, graduated 2023


Maryum Ali, Visiting PhD student, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan


Arun Kumar Samual, PDRA, 2022


Colin Morrison, Project student, University of Glasgow


Callum Laird, Project student, University of Glasgow


Tingting Zhao, PDRA, 2020-2021


Avishek Paul, PDRA, 2018-2021


Ekata Saha, Visiting PhD student, CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, India


Amy Briggs, Project student, University of Glasgow


Bethany Lomax, PhD student, graduated 2021


Alex Wallace, PhD student, graduated 2020


Mike Shipman, PhD student, graduated 2020


Arindam Kumar Das, PDRA, 2019


Giacomo Cioncoloni, PhD student, graduated 2018


Isolda Roger, PhD student, graduated 2017


Caitlin Connor, Project student, University of Glasgow


Ewan McQueen, Project student, University of Glasgow


Olivier Newman, Project student, University of Glasgow


Adam Taylor, Project student, University of Glasgow


Amy Lees, Project student, University of Glasgow


Blair Collins, Project student, University of Glasgow


Jonathan Woods, Project student, University of Glasgow


Theodosia Kefala, Project student, University of Glasgow


Jonathan Wong, Project student, University of Glasgow


Andrew Timmons, Project student, University of Glasgow


Olga Sambalova, Project student, University of Glasgow