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 Ruairish 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.
Today we are celebrating as Rachel Foulkes has passed her PhD viva, defending her thesis on the application of Zr MOFs against pancreatic cancer, aligned with the EPSRC IRC on Targeting Hard to Reach Cancers. Dr Foulkes will be taking up a position in the pharmaceutical industry - congratulations!
This week we have said farewell to Dr Ying Pan, who returns to her home institution Guangdong Medical University, and welcomed new PhD student Jake Davies with new MSci (hons) student Ruairidh McNulty. See the whole group here.
Prof Forgan is guest editing a themed collection of articles for the Journal of Materials Chemistry B, covering Functional Framework Materials. The deadline for submissions for this open call is 1st September 2023 - submit your manuscripts now!
We are delighted that Prof Forgan has been awarded £1.86M from the EPSRC Strategic Equipment scheme to facilitate the purchase of a dedicated Electron Diffractometer that will support nanomaterials science research at the University of Glasgow and the northern UK in general. See our funding portfolio here.
Congratulations to Prof Forgan, whose 50th independent paper, Formation of a Meltable Purinate Metal–Organic Framework and its Glass Analogue, has just been published in Chemical Communications. See our full publications list here.
Congratulations to Dr Catherine Walshe and Dr Ignas Pakamorė who both passed their PhD vivas in November 2022! Cat has moved to industry, working for Impact Solutions as a research scientist, and Ignas will be starting a PDRA with Prof Lee Cronin. Many thanks and congratulations to both, and all the best for the future - you will both be missed!
As the academic year begins we are delighted to welcome a number of new members of the group. Matthew Liddle and Yuping Zhao will begin their PhDs, while Cameron MacLean and Arnav Saxena start their final year MSci projects. We also welcome Dr Ying Pan, Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Guangdong Medical University, as an academic visitor to build international links. See the whole group here.
We are very pleased to receive a Royal Society International Exchanges Grant to develop a collaboration with Dr Ian Howard from the Karlsruhe Instutite of Technology on optically active MOFs. See our full funding portfolio here.
As our ERC Starting Grant SCoTMOF concludes, our postdocs Dr Fatma Demir Duman and Dr Dominic Bara are leaving the group, both taking jobs in the chemical industry. Dom and Fatma are both long-serving researchers who will be greatly missed.
At the start of the academic year we welcome a number of new group members: four new PhD students, Wesley Leung, Joe Holyoake, Jiarong Dong and Yang Wang; plus two new undergraduate project students, Amanda Hogg and Michael Little. The Forgan group is growing again - see the whole group here.
We are very sad to say goodbye to Dr Sophia Boyadjieva, who is leaving the group after four years as a PhD student and a postdoc. She is taking up a position in Research and Development at Here2Grow, a cosmetics company. All the best to Sophia, who will be missed!
After nearly five years we say goodbye to Dr Alexander Thom, who will be joining the group of Dr Christian Serre at the Institute of Porous Materials (IMAP) in Paris for a postdoctoral position. Best wishes for the future Ali and thanks for all the hard work!
Congratulations to Dr Sophia Boyadjieva and Dr Alexander Thom who have successfully defended their PhD theses in May and June 2021, respectively! Both are staying in the group for short postdoctoral positions. Well done!
