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


Email: Abhishek.Rajput@glasgow.ac.uk

Patrick McHugh


PhD student

MSci in Chemistry (Glasgow), 2018


Email: p.mchugh.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Thanasis Stergiou


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (Ioannina), 2016

MSc in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (Nottingham), 2017


Email: a.stergiou.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Calum Hope


PhD student

MSci in Chemistry (Glasgow), 2018


Email: c.hope.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Nada Alhathlaul


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (Jouf University), 2013

MSc in Nanomaterials Chemistry (University College Dublin), 2017


Email: 2499313A@student.gla.ac.uk

Halilu Sale


PhD student

B.Tech. (Hons) Industrial Chemistry (FUT, Yola), 2008

MSc Industrial Chemistry (NSU, Keffi), 2014


Email: h.sale.1@research.gla.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

Hossam Mohamed Gomaa Amin


PhD student

BSc in Chemistry (Fayoum University, Egypt), 2012

MSc in Chemistry (Fayoum University, Egypt), 2018


Email: 2509556G@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

Maryum Ali


Visiting PhD student

National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan


Arun Kumar Samuel


Visiting PDRA


Former members of The Symes Group:

Tingting Zhao


PDRA, 2020-2021

Ekata Saha


Visiting PhD student

CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, India

Amy Briggs


Project student

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


Placement student

Ewan McQueen


Project student

Olivier Newman


Project student

Adam Taylor


Project student

Amy Lees


Project student

Blair Collins


Project student

Jonathan Woods


Project student

Theodosia Kefala


Project student

Jonathan Wong


Project student

Andrew Timmons


Project student

Olga Sambalova


Project student