Post Docs
Artemis Bosveli
Artemis studied chemistry in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Before her graduation in 2017, she completed an internship at Bayer AG in Wuppertal (Germany) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Organic Synthesis under the supervision of Dr. Hartmut Schirok. In the 2017-2019 period, she performed her M.Sc. degree in the ‘’Isolation and Synthesis of Natural Products with Biological Activity’’ program of the Chemistry Department at the University of Crete (Greece). During her master thesis she involved with materials chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Pantelis N. Trikalitis. In 2019, Artemis started her doctoral studies in the same department, under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Vassilikogiannakis, working on new photocatalytic methodologies. The main subject of her thesis was focused on the synthesis of heterocyclic N-containing compounds using sustainable processes. In September 2023, she joined the Gouverneur group as a postdoctoral researcher. In her free time, Artemis enjoys travelling, watching movies and meeting with friends.
Zijun Chen
Zijun Chen did her MChem at Merton College before joining the VG group; investigating the reconstruction of 31P spectroscopic imaging in vivo in her Part II project. Her DPhil was focused on the copper-mediated radiosynthesis of 18F- and 123I-radiolabelled PARP inhibitors. She enjoys powerlifting and running in her free time.
Michael Doyle
Michael completed his graduate studies in September 2024 at the University of Alberta working under the supervision of Prof. Rylan Lundgren. During his PhD he worked on developing new methods for carbon isotope exchange in organic acids, with a focus on (ir)reversible carboxylation reactions under thermal and photocatalytic conditions. He also investigated the metal-catalyzed enantioselective allylic benzylation of tertiary electrophiles to prepare acyclic small molecule targets bearing stereogenic quaternary carbon centers. He briefly worked in the isotope chemistry lab at Sanofi Germany in the spring of 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Volker Derdau, preparing enantioenriched carbon-14 labeled amino acids in a single step from their native precursors. In October 2024, he joined the Gouverneur group as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Outside of the laboratory, Mike likes to spend time with his family (wife Leanne and kitten Ronald), watch American football, play golf, and is an aspiring scuba diver.
Joseph Ford
Joe grew up in Reading and graduated with First Class honours in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 2019. During the summer of 2018 he worked in the lab of Prof. Tobias Ritter, Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, on the late stage trifluoromethylation of arenes, followed by his Part II year in the Gouverneur Group, where he worked on organocatalytic nucleophilic fluorination. He joined the SBM CDT in September 2019 and completed a rotation in the Duarte group, before rejoining the Gouverneur group in July 2020. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, going to the pub and trying to speak German.
Chris Goult
Chris is originally from Bradford and moved to the University of York for his MChem degree. During his final year project, he worked on the outer-sphere electrophilic fluorination of organometallic ruthenium complexes. After completing his undergraduate study, he completed his PhD working with Prof Jason Lynam and Dr John Slattery using solid-state NMR spectroscopy, in tandem with computational chemistry, to characterise and interpret metal-carbon bonding in organometallic species. After completing his PhD, he has undertaken post-doctoral studies with Prof Duncan Bruce on the direct preparation of cyclo-aurated liquid crystalline complexes using microwave activation. He then completed further post-doctoral studies with Dr Luke Wilkinson, working on the preparation of quadruply bonded dimolybdenum paddlewheel complexes and their functionalisation and assembly into conductive continuous materials. He joined the Gouverneur research group in January 2023. In my free time he enjoys walking, wildlife, and whisky.
Thomas Hohmann
Thomas completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, specialising in synthetic organic chemistry. Intrigued by the potential of fluorine chemistry, he pursued doctoral research at the same institution under the supervision of Prof. Beate Koksch starting in February 2020. During his PhD, he transitioned to peptide chemistry, working with highly fluorinated peptide models, and exploring fluorine-directed peptide-peptide interactions. In April 2024, Thomas joined the Gouverneur group as a postdoctoral researcher. Outside the laboratory, Thomas enjoys travelling, watching movies, diving into books, and German beer.
Anirban Mondal
Dr Anirban Mondal grew up in Kolkata, the city of joy in the eastern part of India. He then did his master's thesis at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, under the supervision of Prof. Debabrata Maiti and Rodney A. Fernandes. During his master's research, he studied "Directing group-assisted meta- and para-C-H functionalization of arenes by different template-based assembly" and "Total synthesis of the antitumor agent asteriscunolide." In 2016, he joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the University of Groningen for his doctoral research. His PhD thesis is specialized in various chirality transfer processes in the development of chemically driven molecular machines and asymmetric catalysis. After completing his PhD and a short stay in the Feringa group as guest researcher, he joined the Gouverneur group in 2022 as Postdoctoral Research Associate, in the field of asymmetric fluorination. In his spare time, he likes to meet with others, play cricket, and solve crystal structures.
Adeline Poh
Adeline completed her MChem degree at the University of Durham, working on responsive paramagnetic rare earth complexes for magnetic resonance spectroscopy under the supervision of Prof. David Parker. Adeline was presented with the A*STAR International Pre- Graduate Award and spent the summer of 2017 in Singapore on a project involving the synthesis of a potential PET tracer for the imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma under the guidance of Dr. Edward Robins. In January 2019, Adeline joined the Davis and Gouverneur groups as a DPhil student at Wolfson College. Outside the lab, she enjoys yoga, baking and travelling.
Thomas Schlatzer
Thomas completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology (Austria). During this time, he gained experience in materials science working on bioactive polymers at PCCL as well as in synthetic organic chemistry in the course of his Master studies focused on water-soluble phosphorus ligands. In 2017, he started his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Breinbauer working on the development of chemo- and regioselective S-allylations based on palladium-catalysis. In collaboration with Prof. Christian F. W. Becker (University of Vienna), this methodology was extended as a bioconjugation strategy for the labelling and post-translational modification of cysteines within peptides and proteins. Since April 2022, Thomas is working as a postdoctoral research associate in the Gouverneur Group at the University of Oxford. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, skiing and travelling.
Alan Wortman
Alan is originally from College Station, Texas. He began studying chemistry at Texas A&M University where he performed research under Prof. David Powers investigating hypervalent iodine species as catalytic intermediates for oxidative reactions. During his undergraduate studies, he also worked briefly in the lab of Prof. Tobias Ritter at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung developing new methods for trifluoromethylation using aryl thianthrenium salts. After completing his B.S., he moved to the University of Michigan where he completed his Ph.D. studies with Prof. Corey Stephenson investigating the development of high-throughput technologies for enabling flow photochemistry. In September 2024, Alan joined the Gouverneur group as a postdoctoral researcher where he will be studying new methods for radiolabeling. Outside of the laboratory, Alan enjoys running, photography, and going to concerts.
Long Yang
Long completed his PhD studies in September 2021 at the University of Göttingen, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Lutz Ackermann, where he focused on organic chemistry, particularly synthetic electrochemistry and carborane chemistry. Intrigued by the exciting prospects of fluorine chemistry, he joined the Gouverneur group as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in March 2022. Outside the laboratory, Long enjoys music, swimming, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
