People

Vacancies:

Opportunities for postgraduate and postdoctoral students in the group at DCU are available.

Potential postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to apply for fellowships such as:

IRC GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline is usually October/November each year)

https://research.ie/funding/goipd/?f=postdoctoral

http://research.ie/funding/eps-postdoc/?f=postdoctoral

MSCA Individual Fellowships (deadline is usually September each year) https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/get-funding_en.

Contact Dr. Kerrigan (nessan.kerrigan@dcu.ie) for more details.

Current Members of the group:

Zarah McGeever (PhD student, 2023-present)

Saud Ayidi (PhD student, 2023-present)

Ciarán O’Shaughnessy (PhD student, 2023-present)

Katie Murtagh (PhD student, 2024-present)

Angelina Foley (PhD student, 2024-present)

Collaborators:

Prof. Andrew Kellett, School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University (Antisense oligonucleotide synthesis).

Dr. Ruairí Brannigan, Dublin City University (Synthesis and applications of co-polymers).

Prof. Milan Pour, School of Pharmacy, Charles University, Czech Republic (Biological activity of Beta-lactams).

Prof. Vickie McKee, School of Chemical Sciences, DCU & Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (X-ray crystallographic studies).

Dr. Martin Breugst, Universität zu Köln, Germany (Computational and Mechanistic Studies).

Former Members of the group:

Postgraduate, Postdoctorate and Internship Students

Lena Schmid (Laboratory Technician, 2023-2024)

Stephen O’Reilly, postdoctoral researcher, 2022-2023.

Shubhanjan Mitra, IRC GOI Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2022.

Sophie Connolly, M.Sc. student, 2019-2021.

Mukulesh Mondal, Manashi Panda, Ahmad Ibrahim, and Shi Chen carried out postdoctoral work at Oakland University.

The PI’s group had 7 postgraduate students (3 Ph.D. and 4 M.S.) and 6 postdoctoral research associates involved in the group’s research from 2006-2023.

3 Ph.D. students have graduated from the group: Ahmad Ibrahim (Ph.D., 2006-2011), Shi Chen (Ph.D., 2010-2015), and Nicholas J. Peraino (Ph.D., 2012-2017).

4 M.S. students have graduated: Pei-Hsun Wei (M.S., 2008-2010), Divya Nalla (M.S., 2009-2011) and Han-Jen Ho (M.S., 2009-2012), Sophie Connolly (M.Sc., 2019-2021).

Undergraduate Students

2017-2018: Antoine Beuque and Evan Viola were visiting researchers from INP-ENSIACET, Toulouse. In addition, 3 Fourth Year undergraduate students (Chrismae Bergado, Kieran Burns, and James McAteer) worked on projects at DCU during the Winter 2018 semester.

The PI’s group has had a total of 57 undergraduate students involved in the group’s research from 2006-2023; 20 have appeared as co-authors on peer-reviewed publications, while 15 have made oral or poster presentations at conferences.

Old group news and photos

Photos from 2010:

https://files.oakland.edu/users/hho/web/p2010lablife.html

https://files.oakland.edu/users/hho/web/p2010ACS.html

https://files.oakland.edu/users/hho/web/p2010weigrad.html

https://files.oakland.edu/users/hho/web/p2010bbq.html

Former group members:

https://files.oakland.edu/users/hho/web/members.html

Group publicity:

At DCU:

https://www.dcu.ie/news/news/2018/May/chemically-creative-approach-making-medicines-more-efficiently.shtml

At Oakland University: