Group News
October 2024
- We welcome new PhD students Holly and Steffi to the group!
September 2024
- Ben presented work on the CO2 Utilisation project at "Dream Reactions of CO2" at the Novo nor disk foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.

















July 2024
- Ben presented work on the Asymmetric Dearomatization chemistry at the ISHC 2024 in Aver, Portugal.
- R3VTech welcomes Dr Corentin Fagnan to the team!
April 2024
- Ben visited Japan on a lecture tour as part of the 10th Catalysis and Sensing for Our Environment Symposium. Giving talks at:
The University of Kitakyushu
The University of Kitakyushu
Tokyo Meteropolitan University (TMU)
Tokyo Meteropolitan University (TMU)
Tokyo University






February 2024
- Ben has been promoted to Professor! 
January 2024
- Congratulations to Dr Adriano Randi who has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship!
​October 2023
- We welcome new PhD student Eric, MSci student Erin, MChem student Holly and Nat Sci part C student Amber to the group!
September 2023
- We welcome new Post-Doc John Ritche to the group! John will be working on the Leverhulme Trust oxidation project.
April 2023
- The group along with Prof. Dani Strickland and FibreTech Ltd. have been awarded a 2yr Innovate UK KTP project - recruitment to start asap!
March 2023
- Congratulations to Tom D'Arcy for successfully defending his thesis & thanks to Andy Smith (St Andrews) & Marc Kimber for examining!
- Ben delivered a research lecture on dearomatisation chemistry at the John S. Fossey memorial symposium accompanied by PhD students Emily & Lokesh.
​- The group have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant! Recruitment of a 2yr PDRA will begin asap!
February 2023
- Congratulations to Adriano who has been awarded a iCURe Grant to explore the market for our EPSRC IAA work! Well done!
January 2023
- Ben joins the €8m EU Horizon  Europe LoCEL-H2 project. See a promo video here
December 2022
- We say goodbye to Tom D'Arcy as he starts his position at Sygnature Discovery in Nottingham - good luck Tom!

May 2022
Congratulations to Tom who's paper on asymmetric dearomatization of phenols is out now in Angewandte Chemie.







March 2022
Congratulations to Tom who was part of Lboro's Retrosynthesis team that came 3rd in the SCI-RSC National competition!