Professor Andrei Malkov, Professor of Organic Chemistry

Andrei Malkov joined the Department in June 2008. Born in Murmansk (Russia), he graduated from the Moscow State University (Russia) and obtained his PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences. After spending several years at the Lithuanian Food Research Institute, he moved to UK to carry out postdoctoral research first at the University of East Anglia and than at the University of Leicester. In 1999 he was appointed to a faculty position at the University of Glasgow where he was promoted to Reader in 2005. He was a co-organiser of the RSC International Symposium on Organocatalysis held in Glasgow in 2006 and a guest co-editor for the Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print on Organocatalysis in 2006. His research interests focus on various aspects of asymmetric catalysis and synthetic methodology with a particular emphasis on asymmetric organocatalysis.

Dr Marc Kimber, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry

Marc completed his PhD at the University Adelaide, Australia in 1999 and after postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide, he moved to the UK to the University of Nottingham in 2002 working for Professor J Stephen Clark (2002-2004).  After a stint in industry he returned to take up a research position in the group of Professor Christopher J Moody at the University of Nottingham (2006-2007) and then subsequently took a position as a Teaching Fellow at the same institution.  He was appointed Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in September 2008.  Marc’s current research areas encompass total synthesis, the use of singlet oxygen in synthesis and catalytic asymmetric synthesis using transition metals.

Dr Brenden Theaker, Teaching Fellow

Brenden Theaker has experience of analytical chemistry techniques within higher education and industry. He completed his PhD in the field of food related applications of acoustic wave sensor arrays. Afterwards he became a PDRA in Professor Fed Rowell’s group at University of Sunderland, developing a near-real time monitoring system for proteolytic enzymes.  In addition, he patented novel forensic applications for inorganic based micro-particles. Teaching experience was gained at both the universities of Sunderland and Teesside. Industrial experience includes the de-toxification of a bio-diesel by-product and the development of neutral carriers for flavours and pharmaceutical compunds. 

Research interests include applications of nano-and microparticles  and HPLC analysis of flavour compounds in foods.

Dr Nicola Jennings, Teaching Fellow

Originally from Stoke-on-Trent, Nicola Jennings completed her degree in Biomedicinal Chemistry and Biochemistry at Keele University. She went on to carry out her PhD at Keele under the supervision of Professor James Howell in the area of organometallic synthesis and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. In 2005 Nicola was employed as Laboratory Assistant at Keele until being appointed as a Teaching Fellow at Loughborough University in 2008.