Ryan joined the group as a PhD student in April 2021, studying light-responsive heterogeneous metal-semiconductor materials for organic transformations. He received his MSci in Chemistry in 2019 from the University of Nottingham, after completing his final year research supervised by Prof. Woodward. When outside of the Lab, Ryan enjoys his free time woodworking to make various pieces of furniture, practising historical sabre fencing, or occasionally hiking in various National Parks.

Pekka is a student in the CDT in Sustainable Chemistry and joined the Lanterna group in July 2021. Pekka’s PhD project concentrates on metal-organic framework-supported metal clusters for photocatalytic CO2 reutilisation and it is co-supervised by Andrea Laybourn, James O’Shea, and Elena Besley. Pekka is originally from Finland and received his Master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Eastern Finland in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Mika Suvanto and Dr. Niko Kinnunen. On his free time, he likes to go for long walks, play guitar, travel and sometimes go to the pub for a pint.

Hamza is a PhD student in the CDT in Sustainable Chemistry and joined the Lanterna group in October 2021. Hamza’s PhD project concentrates on preparing heterogeneous photocatalysts for continuous flow and developing self-optimisation processes. His project is co-supervised by Dr Karen Robertson (Fac. of Engineering).