Graduate Research Conferrings
Wednesday 3rd December 2025
On Wednesday 3rd of December 2025, sixteen of our Graduate Research students were conferred with their degrees at ceremonies in O’Reilly Hall.
We were thrilled to celebrate such a large group of graduands at a reception in the School after the ceremony to mark the occasion and celebrate with their supervisors and colleagues.
Clockwise from left: Adam Cruise, Parth Naik, Marcus Baumann, Niamh Disney - Amber Barry, Elaine O'Reilly, Aoife Martin, Dandan Lin - Donal Whelan, Dominik Duleba, Robert Johnson, Shane O'Neill - Xiangming Zhu, Zoe Beato - Marina Rubini, Fahad Alkhathami.
Graduate Research Degrees
Achilleos Group:
Orla Gleeson MSc "'Green' approaches for chemical synthesis”
Baumann Group:
Adam Cruise PhD "Merging Enabling Technologies and Photochemical Reactions for the Advanced Synthesis of Chemical Building Blocks"
Niamh Disney PhD "Exploiting Flow Chemistry for the Synthesis of Nitriles en route to N- and O-Heterocycles"
Parth Naik PhD "Flow Approaches for the Improved Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Building Blocks"
Evans Group:
Dandan Lin PhD "An Electrochemical Oxidation Prins-type Cyclization Sequence for the Synthesis of Substituted N-Heterocycle
Guiry Group:
Niamh Lehane, supervised by Patrick Guiry "Pd-catalysed Decarboxylative Asymmetric Transformations of Heterocycles"
Johnson Group:
Dominik Duleba PhD "From Fundamentals to Applications: Harnessing Digital Chemistry for Nanopore Sensor Development"
Shane O'Neill PhD "Confined Sensing Systems: Principles and Applications from Bulk to Nanoscale"
Donal Whelan PhD "The Development of a DNA Biosensor for the Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae"
McGarrigle Group:
Vanessa Becker PhD "Synthesis and Applications of S(IV) and S(VI) Compounds”
Morgan Group:
Francesca Adami PhD "Electronic Properties and Surface Interactions of Manganese and Iron Spin Crossover Complexes"
Eoin McGee Pasquetti MSc "Spin State Modulation of Transition Metal Chelate Complexes"
O'Reilly Group:
Amber Barry PhD "Bio- and Organocatalytic Cascade Methodology for the Synthesis of Chiral Heterocycles"
Aoife Martin PhD "Transaminase-triggered Synthesis of Disubstituted Pyrrolidines"
Rubini Group:
Fahad Alkathami PhD "Targeted dipeptide vectors for tiophylic anti-cancer metal complexes"
Zhu Group:
Zoe Beato PhD "Fluoro-Substituted Cationic and Neutral Antibiotic NHC* Silver Derivatives of SBC3: Continuous Flow versus Conventional Synthesis"
We wish each of our graduates the best for their futures and know that they will stay in touch with their UCD School of Chemistry Family.