Invited Presentations
Boehringer Ingelheim
Biberach, Germany
In-person talk, Q1 2024
Reimagining Amine Synthesis
CASE24 International Symposium
Japan (Kitakyushi, Osaka, Tokyo)
In-person talks, 4-12th April 2024
Reimagining Amine Synthesis
University of Leicester
6th December 2023
In-person talk (1 h)
Reimagining Amine Synthesis
Vertex
Oxford, Boston, San Diego
Virtual talk, 27-28th November 2023
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2022-23
AstraZeneca
Macclesfield, Cambridge
Virtual talk, 20-21st November 2023
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2022-23
International Isotope Society UK Group Annual Symposium
Moller Centre, Cambridge, 17th November 2023
In-person talk (30 min)
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Scott E. Denmark 70th Birthday Symposium
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, 5th August 2023
In-person talk (30 min)
Reimagining Amine Synthesis
Pfizer
Ringaskiddy, Cork, 2nd August 2023
Virtual talk (1 h)
Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles
X-Chem
Montreal, Budapest, Boston
Virtual talk, 26th July 2023
Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles
X-Chem
Montreal, Budapest, Boston (~80 chemists)
Virtual talk, 14th & 16th June 2023
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
9th European Workshop in Drug Synthesis (EWDSy)
Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy
In-person talk (15 min), 22 May 2023
Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles
Sygnature
Nottingham & Alderley Park (170 chemists)
In-person talk, 12-13th April 2023
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
John S Fossey Memorial Symposium
University of Birmingham, UK, 30th March 2023
In-person talk (30 min)
Unlocking New Reactivity of Unprotected Amines Using Visible Light
University of Dundee, Drug Discovery Unit and CeTPD
Dundee, UK, 14th January 2023
In-person talk (1 h)
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Germany, Austria, US (~100 chemists)
Virtual talk, 6-7th March 2023
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
Winter In-Person Organic Symposium
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 21st December 2022
In-person talk (20 min)
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
UCB Biopharma
Slough, Boston, Belgium sites
Virtual talk, 9th December 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
In-person talk, 29th November 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
New Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry 2022
In person talk, Burlington House, London, 23rd November 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
University of Nottingham
In person talk, 26th October 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Charles-River Laboratories
Harlow (49 chemists)
Virtual talk, 18-19th October 2022
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Oxford, Boston, San Diego (65 chemists)
Virtual talk, 17-18th October 2022
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
Syngenta
Bracknell, Stein, Goa (65 chemists)
Virtual talk, 3-4th October 2022
Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22
Gregynog Synthesis Meeting
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 7th to 9th September 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Gordon Research Conference, Innovations in Drug Discovery and Enabling Technologies
New London, NH, United States, 7th to 12th August 2022
Poster
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
9th Heron Island Conference – Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules
Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
In person talk, 27th June 2022
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
Vernalis
Cambridge, UK
In person talk, 27th May 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
RSC Synthesis in Drug Discovery and Development Meeting
Virtual meeting, 4th to 5th May 2022
Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles
Queen Mary University London
In person talk, 30th March 2022
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Chemistry Conference
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, 9th March 2022
In person talk
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
University of Leeds
In person talk, 16th February 2022
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
Pacifichem 2021
Virtual symposium (due to Covid-19), 16th to 21st December 2021
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary amines
University College Cork
Virtual talk, 8th December 2021
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
SCI 27th Annual Review Meeting “Hot Topics in Organic Chemistry”
SCI HQ, Belgrave Sq, London, 1st December 2021
Recent advances in C–H bond functionalisation
Keele University
Virtual talk, 27th October 2021
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
Novartis
Virtual talk, 22nd October 2021
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis 2021 (ISySyCat2021)
University of Evora, Portugal, 31st August to 3rd September 2021
Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines
[Prize for best talk]
Evotec
Virtual talk, 5th August 2021
Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines
Dr Reddys
Virtual talk, 7th June 2021
Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines
Syngenta
Virtual talk, 24th May 2021
Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines
Young Chemists 2021 (YC21)
Virtual talk, 23rd April 2021
Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines
University of York
Virtual talk, 20th January 2021
New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles
AstraZeneca
Virtual talk, 20th January 2021
New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles
Janssen
Virtual talk, 20th December 2020
New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles
Charles-River Laboratories
Virtual talk, 8th October 2020
New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles
Sosei Heptares
Sosei Heptares, Cambridge, 29th January 2020
Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines
RSC Organic Division South West Regional Meeting
University of Oxford, 16th January 2020
Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January Meeting
ICR, London, 10th January 2020
Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines
Gregynog Synthesis Meeting
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 11th September 2019
Photocatalytic C-H Functionalisation of Amines
Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting 2019 – Sustaining Chemical Synthesis
University of York, 3rd July 2019
Dial-an-Amine: New Strategies for Amine Synthesis
5th British-German Frontiers of Science Symposium
Wotton House, Dorking, UK, 21st March 2018
Metal-Free C–C Bond Formation
Dial-a-Molecule Synthetic Chemistry Academic–Industrial Ideas Exchange
Imperial College, London, 25th September 2017
Missing Reactions
Dial-a-Molecule and Directed Assembly Networks ECR Event
University of Liverpool, 19th June 2017
Flash Presentation
4th Royal Society of Chemistry Early Career Symposium
University of Strathclyde, 23rd June 2016
Room Temperature Gold-Catalysed Arylation of Heteroarenes [Prize for best talk]
An Afternoon of Organic Chemistry
University of Manchester, 1st March 2016
Building and Understanding Catalytic Cycles
24th International Symposium Synthesis in Organic Chemistry
University of Cambridge, 2015
Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights (Poster)
OMCOS 18
Sitges, Spain, 2015
Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights (Poster)
22nd Lakeland Heterocyclic Conference
Grasmere, 2015
Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights
CaRLa Winter School
University of Heidelberg, 2015
Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments (Poster)
23rd Organic Division Scotland Regional Meeting
University of Glasgow, 2015
Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Insights and an Improved Protocol (Poster)
Novartis Mini-Symposium
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2013
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Sulfur Electrophiles
23rd International Symposium Synthesis in Organic Chemistry
University of Oxford, 2013
Iron-Catalysed Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Alkyl Sulfur Electrophiles (Poster)
Syngenta Doctoral Training Awards Conference
Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, 2011
New Methods for Stereoselective Nucleophilic Fluorination [Prize for best talk]
22nd Regional Graduate Symposium in Novel Organic Chemistry
University of Bath, 2011
New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination
Pfizer Poster Symposium
Burlington House, London, 2010
New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination (Poster) [Prize for poster]
Lilly Poster Symposium
Erl Wood, Windlesham, 2010
New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination (Poster)
Lilly Prize for Excellence in First Year of Postgraduate Study
Erl Wood, Windlesham, 2009
New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination
SCI Young Chemists Panel Regional Undergraduate Symposium
University of Bath, 2008
Ammonium-Directed Oxidation [Prize for best talk]