Group News
June 2025
- Ben presents the groups work on asymmetric desymmetrisation at the Heterocyclic Compounds Gordon Research Conference in Rhode Island.
-R3VTech Ltd. are selected for the Shell Start-up Engine and the RSC Change Makers Scheme.
-Lokesh Rejoins the group as a PDRA on CO2 Utilisation
- Ben is appointed REF2029 Unit of Assessment Co-Lead for Chemistry.
May 2025
-Christian joins the group as a MSc project student working with R3VTech Ltd.
March 2025
-The group attends the Bristol Synthesis and Electrosynthesis meetings.
January 2025
- Ben presents the groups work on asymmetric desymmetrisation and CO2 Utilisation at Nottingham Trent University as part of their seminar programme.
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.