News 2021
Postgraduate Conferrings - Summer 2021

The graduation ceremony took place online, due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
Congratulations to all postgraduate students on their Ph.D. graduation this week, and our best wishes to all of them in their future careers.
Dr. Thanih Balbaied
Thesis Title: Development of microelectrolyte arrays for real-time monitoring of alkaline phosphatase release from cells in clinical analysis.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Eric Moore
Dr. Thomas Brouder
Thesis Title: Stereochemical features of enantioselective copper- and rhodium- mediated transformations of alpha-diazocarbonyl compounds.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Anita Maguire
Dr. Daniel Crowley
Thesis Title: Telescoping the synthesis and heterogeneous transition metal catalysed asymmetric transformations of α-diazoketones and α-diazoacetamides in continuous flow.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Anita Maguire
Dr. Richard Curley
Thesis Title: Development of sustainable biomimetric syntheses of spherical silica particles.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Justin Holmes
Dr. Fionán Davitt
Thesis Title: Tinkering with Sn: one and two dimensional tin chalcogenide nanostructures.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Justin Holmes
Dr. Olga Dennehy
Thesis Title: Scale-up and optimisation of the β-chloroacrylamide process by batch and continuous flow methods.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Humphrey Moynihan and Prof. Anita Maguire
Dr. Aaran Flynn
Thesis Title: Development and application of synthetic methodologies based on organosulfur and organophosphorus chemistry.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Anita Maguire
Dr. Áine Kelly
Thesis Title: Telescoping of transition metal catalysed and biocatalysed reactions.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Humphrey Moynihan