The Forgan Group at the University of Glasgow was established in October 2012, and is always looking for new members - click the Join Us tab for more information. Click here to see previous members of the group, and some group photographs can be found in our Gallery.
Our current group members are:
Dr Catriona Thomson
PDRA 2026-2028
Cat joins the team after her PhD at the University of Melbourne, and a period working as a beamline scientist at the Australian Synchrotron, to work on our collaborative EPSRC project with Prof Simon Coles at the University of Southampton, working on applying electron diffraction to the crystal sponge method.
Dr Thach Ngoc Tu
PDRA 2025-2027
Thach joins the group on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions International Fellowship where he will work on the development of electron diffraction techniques to study the host-guest chemistry of MOFs.
Dr Ayaz Anwar
PDRA 2025-2027
Ayaz joins the group to work on our Scottish government funded project on delivery of senotherapies in collaboration with Prof Shiels.
Matthew Liddle
PhD Student 2022-2026
Matthew joins the group after completing his undergraduate degree with Prof Paul Anderson at the University of Birmingham, to pursue the modulated self-assembly of MOFs linked by p-block metals.
Yuping Zhao
PhD Student 2022-2026
Yuping is studying for her PhD on a China Scholarship Council sponsored project where she is investigating nanoscale Ga(III) MOFs as potential antibiotic agents.
Jake Davies
PhD Student 2023-2027
Jake joins the group after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex. He will develop modulated self-assembly of MOFs linked by Al(III) as novel adjuvants.
Dylan Shaw
PhD Student 2024-2028
Dylan joins the group after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Strathclyde, and will continue his crystallographic training by applying electron diffraction to the crystal sponge method.
Abdulaziz Alshehri
PhD Student 2025-2029
Abdulaziz joins the group from King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia, and will study the modulated self-assembly of mixed linker MOFs.
Afnan Al Muslim
PhD Student 2025-2029
PGT MSc Student 2024
Afnan rejoins the group to undertake her PhD working on the development of MOFs for delivery of multiple anticancer and senolytic molecules.
Bethany Gibson
PhD Student 2025-2029
Beth has joined the group on a PhD in collaboration with Syngenta investigating the use of the crystal sponge method to identify agrochemicals.
Louis Down
MSc (res) Student 2026-27
BSc Undergraduate Project 2025-26
Louis is investigating the immune response of various MOF nanoparticles as potential vaccine adjuvants, and will return for a postgraduate research masters degree.
Xinrui Feng
PGT MSc 2026
Xinrui joined the group for his PGT MSc project, where he is looking to discover new crystal sponge materials.
Siyu (Octavia) Tao
MSci Undergraduate Project 2026-27
Octavia is undertaking her final year MSci project in the group looking at the self-assembly of discrete Ga clusters and their use in MOF synthesis.
Zoe Hill
BSc Undergraduate Project 2026-27
Zoe is spending her final year BSc project in the team looking to develop new crystal sponge materials.
Alistair Nicholson
Placement 2026-27
Alistair joins from the University of Strathclyde for his placement year, where he is working to functionalise and modify crystal sponges.
