Supervisors/Advisors:Dr. Kerton is an Associate Professor of Green Chemistry at Memorial University. She was born in the ‘Steel City’ of the UK to Welsh parents, leading to a love of the Yorkshire countryside and fanaticism for Welsh rugby. Her family moved via Nottingham to the South East of England with her Father’s work. She obtained her first class B.Sc. Hons degree (Chemistry Major, Environmental Science Minor, 1995) at the University of Kent in the UK. This is the main university in the area in which she grew up – ‘The Garden of England’ . She performed research supervised by Dr. Mike Went in the area of thio-macrocycle synthesis and coordination chemistry. She then moved to the University of Sussex to obtain her D.Phil. degree (1999) under the supervision of Dr. Gerry Lawless, and co-supervision by Dr. Steve Armes. Her two major achievements were (i) the isolation and structural characterisation of the first titanocene, and (ii) the first synthesis of a conducting polymer in a supercritical fluid. She then moved to Canada to perform postdoctoral research (lanthanide chemistry, ligand design and small molecule activation) with Dr. Mike Fryzuk before returning to her homeland to take up an academic position at the University of York. Here she shared lab space with Dr. Robin Perutz and became more heavily involved with Green Chemistry including collaborations with Dr. James Clark, Dr. Jeff Hardy, Dr. Gideon Grogan and Dr. Chris Rayner (Leeds). She also received a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in September 2002. In September 2005, she moved back to Canada and took up a position as an assistant professor at Memorial University and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2009. In June 2007, she received a Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund Award for research in the field of Green Chemistry. In 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing published her text on Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry. The second edition is being prepared.
Fran Kerton (Rennes 2008, relaxing during ICOMC)
Dr. Kozak obtained his first class B.Sc. Hons degree (Biological Chemistry) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known as the “Steeltown” in the “Golden Horseshoe” of Lake Ontario. He performed research supervised by Dr. Mike McGlinchey (currently Emeritus Prof. at University College Dublin) in the area of indenyl-phosphine ligands. In 1997 he moved to the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver to obtain his PhD degree under the supervision of Dr. Mike Fryzuk, where he studied dinitrogen activation by niobium complexes. In 2002 he moved to the UK to perform postdoctoral research at the University of York with Dr. Simon Duckett (Para-hydrogen induced polarization NMR techniques for quantum computing), followed by an NSERC PDF with Dr. Philip Mountford at Oxford University and a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford. His work at Oxford involved early transition metal catalysts for polymerization. In 2004, he moved back to Canada and took up a position as an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. In September 2005 he moved to his current position at Memorial University. In June 2008, he received a Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders’ Opportunity Fund Award for research in the area of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis. Chris was promoted to the position of Associate Professor (with tenure) at Memorial University in 2011. Also that year, he received the Terra Nova Young Innovator Award, sponsored by Suncor Energy. In January 2012 he became an Honorary Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London in the group of Dr. George Britovsek.
Chris Kozak (Rennes 2008, also relaxing during ICOMC)
Current Graduate Students:
Rebecca Dean (5th Yr PhD, NSERC PGS-D, BSc St. FX Univ, Canada) – currently writing her thesis
Rebecca and Angela at the Summer Symposium
Nduka Ikpo (4th Yr PhD, MSc 2008 Memorial Univ, Canada with Kerton Group)
Nduka Ikpo, PhD Candidate, using ‘Bertie’ the box
Samantha Payne (née Butt) (4th Yr PhD, NSERC-PGS-D and Scholarship related to resource development, $6k pa; BSc Memorial Univ., Canada, Honours project with Kerton Group)
Samantha Payne, PhD Candidate, using SFT phase monitor
Khaled Omari (4th Yr PhD, RDC Ocean Industries Student Research Award Holder – $60k for 2 years, in addition to $20k pa stipend)
Khaled Omari, PhD Candidate, using microwave reactor
Justin Belanger (2nd Yr MSc, BSc 2010 UPEI, Canada - Honours project in Shaver group)
Elliott Chard (2nd Yr MSc, BSc 2010 Memorial Univ, Canada - Honours project in Kozak group)
Ali Elkurtehi (1st Yr PhD, Libyan Government Scholarship Holder)
Jenna Flogeras (1st Yr PhD, MSc 2011 UNB, Canada - McGrady group)
Katalin Pressing-Devaine (1st Yr MSc)
Hua Chen (1st Yr MSc)
Yi Liu (1st Yr MSc)
Qing He (1st Yr MSc)
Dalal Alhashmialameer (1st Yr PhD, Saudi Arabian Scholarship Holder, co-supervised by Dr. Hattenhauer)
Recent Graduates: Kamrul Hasan (PhD 2011, now Postdoctoral researcher at U. Sherbrooke), Zhenzhong Hu (PhD 2011), Hassan A. Kalviri (PhD 2011, now Postdoctoral researcher at U. Ottawa), Uttam K. Das (MSc 2010, now PhD candidate at U. Ottawa), Xin Qian (MSc 2010, now PhD candidate at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Nduka Ikpo (MSc 2008, now PhD candidate at Memorial Univ.), Rajoshree Roychowdhury (MSc 2007, progressed to PhD candidate at U.Windsor)
Current Undergraduate Researchers:
April Woods – SURA Summer 2012 (Kozak/Bottarro)
Jennifer Murphy (SWASP 2011 & MUCEP Fall 2011) – SURA Summer 2012 (Kerton/Dawe)
Recent undergraduates:
See “where are they now?” section of site
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