We welcome Bethany Gibson to the group to start her PhD in collaboration with Syngenta investigating the use of the crystal sponge method to identify agrochemicals. Meet the full team here.
Big congratulations to Dr Jiarong (Peter) Dong and Dr Wai Leuk (Wesley) Leung, who both passed their vivas in the last two weeks, becoming Forgan group PhDs number 14 and 15. Congratulations to our Sc and In MOF experts!
A landmark publication for the group, as our first paper using the Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-ED electron diffractometer, funded by EPSRC. Published in Small, we used electron diffraction to show continuous breathing in MIL-53 MOFs. See our full publication list here.
We say goodbye to Daniel Harris, who joins the group of Prof Dave Adams for his PhD, and Weifeng He, who obtained his MSc. Joining the group are Aidan Guthrie (MSci) and Louis Down (BSc) for their undergraduate projects for the 2025-26 academic year. Meet the full team here.
We welcome to the group Dr Thach Ngoc Tu, who has received a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions International Fellowship and will work on electron diffraction of MOFs for the next two years. Meet the full team here.
This Summer it has been a pleasure to host Daniel Harris, carrying out a placement supported by In2Research and the DiveIn CDT, and Weifeng He, working on their PGT MSc research project. Meet the full team here.
Today we celebrate Dr Yang Wang, who successfully passed his viva to become the 12th Forgan Group PhD! Yang made significant contributions to our drug delivery effort, with one paper published and many more to come! Yang will graduate this summer and return to his native China.
This Spring we have welcomed Dr Russell Main (PDRA) and Afnan al Muslim (PhD) into the group, and said farewell to Lauren Espie, who has completed her BSc (hons) degree at Glasgow. Meet the full team here.
We welcome two new members to the team this January: Dr Ayaz Anwar joins as a PDRA to work on the delivery of senolytics by MOFs, and Abdulaziz Alshehri starts his PhD examining the self-assembly of mixed linker MOFs. Meet the full team here.
We are currently recruiting for a 2 year postdoctoral researcher to study MOFs for delivery of senolytics - deadline for applications is 24th October 2024. We are also recruiting for a 3 year postdoctoral position focussing on MOF synthesis, crystallisation, and electron diffraction analysis with a deadline for applications of 18th November 2024.
We have a number of changes in the group, as we say farewell and congratulations to Dr Arvin Eskandari (PDRA), Afnan Saleh S Al Muslim (MSc) and Ruairidh McNulty (MSci) who are leaving the group. We also welcome new PhD student Dylan Shaw, and new BSc (hons) project student Lauren Espie. Meet the full team here.
Prof Forgan is the recipient of the 2024 RSC Peter Day Memorial Prize, awarded for outstanding contributions made by a mid-career scientist in materials chemistry. The award was made for his team's contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials. Congratulations Prof Forgan!
Congratulations go to Prof Forgan, who has been nominated to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy. Prof Forgan will be admitted to the Fellowship and sign the roll during his induction in June this year.
Prof Forgan will be the inaugural director and one of four equal leads of the new £11.5M EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research, aka DiveIn. The CDT will foster interdisciplinary research projects across the sciences, and will soon begin recruiting PhD students for the 2025/26 academic year.
We have a fully funded PhD studentship available to commence in October 2024, which will be loosely focussed on using electron crystallography to elucidate properties of MOFs, including flexibility and crystal sponge applications. The funding covers stipend and home tuition fees, and we are eager to hear from potential applicants. See our advert for more information.
