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Meet the team

Principal Investigator
Dr Yi Jin ๐จ๐ณ
Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow
May 2017 - presentโโ

PhD candidate
Sana Fairman ๐น๐น
UoM funded
Sept 2022 - presentโ

PhD candidate
Zhuoyun Chen ๐จ๐ณ
CSC funded
Sept 2023 - presentโ

PhD candidate
Dingfan Xu ๐จ๐ณ
CSC funded
โSept 2025 - presentโ

PhD candidate
Helen Barber ๐ฌ๐ง
Melbourne-Manchester dual degree
Sept 2023 - present

PhD candidate
Dongxu Yuan ๐จ๐ณ
Jan 2024 - presentโ

PhD candidate
Luise Pallasdies ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ท
Melbourne-Manchester dual degree
April 2025 - presentโโ
Previous Group Members
Postdocs
Dr Patrick Baumann ๐ฉ๐ช Nov 2021- Nov 2023, currently MSAT Biconjugates Process Expert, Lonza Group, Switzerland.
Dr Zhongyuan Li๐จ๐ณ Dec 2023 - Dec 2024, currently Associate Prof at Tianjin University of Science and Technology
Dr Helen Bell ๐ฌ๐ง Jan 2018 - Jan 2020, currently Senior Scientist at Qkine, UK
Dr Zuyan Wu ๐จ๐ณ Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
PhD Students
Mochen Dong ๐จ๐ณ Sept 2020 - Nov 2024.
Davide Zappalà ๐ฎ๐น Apr 2019 - Aug 2023, currently a postdoc at Cardiff University.
Patrick Baumann ๐ฉ๐ช Oct 2017- Nov 2021, currently MSAT Biconjugates Process Expert, Lonza Group, Switzerland.
Sandra Jusu ๐ธ๐ฑ Sept 2020 - Sept 2021, currently a Faculty Fellow at Buffalo State Univesity.
Masters Students
Wasima Choudhury ๐ฌ๐ง MChem Sept 2023 - May 2024
Haitian Yu ๐จ๐ณ MSc April 2023 - Aug 2023โ
Declan Pearson โโ๐ฌ๐ง MChem Oct 2022 - Jun 2023โ
Jing Wang ๐จ๐ณ MSc April 2022 - Oct 2022, currently a research assistant at Westlake University
Truman Tucay ๐ฌ๐ง MChem Oct 2021 - Jun 2022โ, currently a Business Analyst at AstraZeneca
Timothy Cooper ๐ฌ๐ง MSc Jun 2021 - Sept 2021โ
Callum Breeze ๐ฌ๐ง MSc Jun 2021 - Sept 2021, currently a PhD candidate at Australian National University
Shriya Shah ๐ฌ๐งMChem Oct 2020 - Jun 2021, currently Scientist I at Reading Scientific Service Ltd.
Rebekah Cooke ๐ฌ๐งMSc Oct 2020 - May 2021, currently PhD candidate at Cardiff University
Jasper Richards ๐ฌ๐ง MChem Oct 2019 - May 2020
Wenyu Zhang ๐จ๐ณ MSc Jun 2019 - Sept 2019
Charlotte Gunn ๐ฌ๐ง MChem Oct 2018 - May 2019
Rhodri Evans ๐ฌ๐งMChem Oct 2018 - May 2019, now PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, UK
Ben Jones ๐ฌ๐งMChem Oct 2017- May 2018
Visiting and project Students
Hao Chen ๐จ๐ณBSc September 2022, now MRes at Oxford University
Cyrielle Clement ๐ซ๐ท Erasmus/BSc Feb 2020 - March 2020
Grace Zhang ๐จ๐ณBSc Oct 2019 - Mar 2020, currently PhD candidate at Jilin University, China
Leanne Lin ๐จ๐ณMSc visiting student (Jinan Uni, China) Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Jackie Chen ๐จ๐ณ Research Assistant Jul 2018 - Jul 2019, now at Jiaquan Patent Agent Changsha branch, China
Zhen Zhang ๐จ๐ณ Visiting student Jan 2018- Jul 2018, now MSc at Northwest University, China
Silan Liu ๐จ๐ณ Visiting student Jan 2018- April 2018, currently PhD candidate at Westlake University, China
Juliette Bignard ๐ซ๐ทErasmus/Masters student Oct 2017- Jan 2018, PhD at Sorbonne Université, France
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