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September 2025
A warm welcome to all our new students, Ph.D. and Master’s. We have a fairly large cohort this year with some students being jointly supervised by Prof. Fairlamb : Max Atkinson, Niamh McArdle, Mark Poole, Alex Bradley (main supervisor Dr. Charlotte Willans), Molly Fackerell (main supervisor Prof. Dave Smith), Grace Brown (main supervisor Dr. Meghan Halse), Christina Taylor, and Harry Campbell.
June 2025
A huge congratulations to Marine and Stuart who both recently passed their viva voce exams. You have both been a great asset to the group and we wish you all the best for the future. Marine will next be going to Japan to be a PDRA and Stuart has a PDRA position at the University of Durham, UK.
Members of the Fairlamb group recently attended the RSC Dalton Conference at the University of Warwick along side many others from the University of York. Everyone had a fantastic time networking, seeing some great oral presentations, socialising, and many presented posters too. Our very own Jake Walder won one poster prize along with four others from the York. A huge congratulation to Jake and all the other winners.
Recently, Prof. Fairlamb has contributed to a paper outlining the acceleration of UK science with AI. The paper can be read by clicking on the following link: A New National Purpose: Accelerating UK Science in the Age of AI.
Prof. Fairlamb has also been interviewed by Scientific Computing World about designing new lab robots for chemistry. The interview can be read at the following link: Designing New Lab Robots.
Three articles have been recently published which are available to read. These have been contributions from many members of the Fairlamb group, but also with collaborations from other researchers in industry, Bayer Ag, crop science and Johnson Matthey.
Research Interests
- Catalysis and Mechanistic Chemistry
- Photochemistry in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry
- Stabilized Metal Nanoparticles for Cross-coupling Reactions
- Ligand and Catalyst Design
- Reaction Automation Using Robotics
- Reaction Optimisation
- Enabling Technologies for catalysis
Publications
Other Areas of Interest
The Fairlamb group has other areas of interest outside of inorganic mechanistic chemistry including: teaching, outreach, other public engagement and the University of York west campus and city centre. Please use the links below to explore these in more detail.
Teaching
Outreach
Public
York
The Chemistry department at the University of York.
The Dorothy Hodgkin building (chemistry blocks D and E) at the University of York.
The Fairlamb group research labs.
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