People

Dr Rebekah Jeans

Bex grew up in Glasgow and completed her undergraduate and PhD programmes at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Her PhD was in The Heteroborane Group with Prof. Alan Welch using bis(o-carborane) as a ligand in catalysis as part of the CRITICAT CDT. Bex moved to Bristol to start her PostDoc with Prof. Paul Pringle in August 2021 and started a project on bidentate fluorophosphite ligand design and synthesis under the joint supervision of Dr Natalie Fey and Dr Uli Hintermair (Bath). Outside of the lab Bex enjoys all things sport-related, music, cooking and eating!

Daniel Good

Daniel was born and raised in Norfolk as the fourth of five children in his family. After completing school and sixth-form college with A-levels in Chemistry, Maths and Music, he took a year out in Madrid, Spain, to do some volunteer-work as part of a missionary programme. He then returned to education in 2014 studying Chemistry at the University of East Anglia. His final-year project involved devising synthetic routes to barbiturate-derived compounds with anti-leishmaniasis activity. In 2018, he joined the CDT in Catalysis run between Cardiff, Bristol and Bath. During the first year, he undertook two research sabbaticals, the first with Alberto Roldan in Cardiff studying formic acid decomposition on TiO2 surfaces computationally, and the second with David Fermin in Bristol looking at NOx reduction using perovskites. His PhD title within the Pringle group is Unconventional Phosphorus Ligands for Catalysis, with a particular focus on hydroformylation, photoinitiators and dehydrogenation of renewable hydrogen carriers. Outside of the lab, Daniel enjoys playing the piano and composing/arranging music, in addition to spending time with his ever-growing number of nieces and nephews, and following his beloved Ipswich Town FC through good times and bad.

Josh Clarke

Josh grew up in Norwich, before moving to Bristol to complete a Master’s degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience. In his 3rd year he spent a year in industry at Lubrizol, Derby, working towards the internal manufacture of novel carboxylate-based detergents. After graduating in June 2021, he started his PhD as part of the Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis (TECS) CDT in Bristol and is now working under the supervision of Prof. Paul Pringle, Prof. Carmen Galan and Dr Michelle Ma (King’s College London). His research involves synthesising new multidentate phosphines, conjugating them to targeting biomolecules and exploring their use as targeted radiopharmaceuticals. Outside of the lab, Josh is a keen climber, as well as being an avid fan of football, rugby and F1. He also enjoys travelling, recently taking trips to Pisa, Prague and Berlin.