Monday 25th August 2025 at 3pm
Professor Yi-Hsin Liu, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Talk Title: Quantifying Lattice Symmetry Breaking and Optical Polarization Response in Quantum Materials: A Case Study of Mn-Doped CdSe Nanostructures
S3.56 Science South
School Seminar - Hosted by Tom Hooper
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 at 12noon
Professor Tim Newhouse, Yale University
"Computationally Augmented Total Synthesis"
S3.56 Science South
Hosted by Pat Guiry
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Wednesday 28th May 2025 at 11am
Gawain Boyce
PhD Student, Gilheany & McGarrigle Research Groups, UCD
"SNBs: Not exactly a bicycle ride"
and
Liam Casey
PhD Student, Guiry Research Group, UCD
"Towards The Synthesis of Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptane-Containing Aromatic Lipoxin Analogues"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Session Chair: Chris Thomas
Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Friday 30th May 2025 at 3pm
Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago, New Zealand
Talk Title: Catalysts for H2 production and CO2 reduction
School Seminar - Hosted by Tom Hooper
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Wednesday 14th May 2025 at 11am
Viktorija Mikaite
PhD Student, Keene Research Group, UCD
"LiCoRICE: Towards sustainable solvothermal recycling of NMC cathode materials"
and
Liam Jowett
PhD Student, Brougham Research Group, UCD
"That’s so mesoscale: Designing magnetically responsive hydrogels for biomedical applications"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Session Chair: Daniel Graczyk
Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 7th May 2025 at 12 noon
Professor Fiona Freeman, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Talk Title: Engineering Complex Bone Tumour Models: Unravelling Tumour Microenvironment for Drug Discovery
School Seminar - Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 23rd April 2025 at 12 noon.
Professor Celine Marmion, RCSI Dublin
Talk Title: Multi-Targeted Metallodrugs Strategically Designed to Combat Cancer Drug Resistance
School Seminar - Hosted by Tom Hooper
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Wednesday 23rd April 2025 at 3pm.
Professor Guinevere A. Giffin, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research and Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Talk Title: "Exploring the Impact of Materials Structure-Property-Processing Relationships on Electrochemical Storage Devices"
School Seminar - Hosted by Serena Cussen
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Wednesday 9th April 2025 time tbc
Professor Scott Habershon, University of Warwick
Talk Title: "Mapping complex chemical landscapes using automated reaction discovery"
School Seminar - Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi Meinhardt
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Wednesday 2nd April 2025 at 12 noon.
Professor Louis Morrill, University of Bath
Talk Title: "Making and Breaking Bonds in Organic Electrochemistry"
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Peter Byrne
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Wednesday 26th March 2025 at 12 noon.
Dr. Jonathan Carroll, An tSaotharlann Stáit / State Laboratory
Talk Title: “Chemistry - in Service and Protection; Case studies from the State Laboratory”
School Seminar - Hosted by Aniello Palma, Tom Hooper, Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt and Joseph Byrne
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Wednesday 19th March 2025 at 3pm. S3.56 Science South, O'Brien Centre for Science, UCD
Mini Symposium for New Academic Staff in the School
Speakers:
Dr Bartosz Bieszczad
Dr Peter Byrne
Prof Serena Cussen
Dr Fun Man Fung
Dr Justin Henthorn
Dr Charles C.J. Loh
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Wednesday 12th March 2025 Theatre D - H 1.13, Science Hub, O’Brien Centre for Science, UCD
Michael McGlinchey 80th Birthday Symposium
14.00-14.40 Dr Elizabeth Hillard, Director of Research, ICMCB and University of Bordeaux
Exotic chiroptical properties of coordination complexes in the solid state
14.40-15.30 Professor Didier Astruc, University of Bordeaux
Dendrimer Art: Construction, Electronics, Catalysis and Theranostics
16.00-17.00 Professor Michael McGlinchey, University College Dublin
From Steroid-Chromium Complexes to Ferrocenyl Quinone Methide Anti-Cancer Drugs: Four Decades of Bioorganometallic Chemistry
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Wednesday 5th March 2025 at 11am
Dr Sandhya Kapurwan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Level 1, Morgan Research Group, UCD
"Single Molecule Magnet Behavior in Polyoxometalates Based Lanthanide (III) Cluster"
and
Dr Ramesh Golla
Postdoctoral Fellow, Level 1, McGarrigle Research Group, UCD
"Photochemical Synthesis of ortho-Aminophenols via Tandem C/N-Difunctionalization of Nitroarenes with Carboxylic Acids"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Session Chair: Amber Barry
Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 26th February 2025 at 11am
Daniel Graczyk
PhD student, Quinn Research Group, UCD
"Cr(III) and Os(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for DNA Binding"
and
Dominik Duleba
PhD student, Johnson Research Group, UCD
"In Search of Sensitivity in Nanoscale Sensors"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Session Chair:Ram Rajesh
Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 19th February 2025 at 11am
Dr Innes McClelland
Postdoctoral Fellow, Level 2, Cussen Research Group, UCD
"Understanding Battery Cathodes"
and
Dr Simon Nicholas Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow, Level 1, Quinn Research Group, UCD
"Lessons in (Stereo)chemistry from Octahedral Ruthenium Complexes and their Interactions with DNA"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 19th February 2025 at 1pm
Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick
"Playing to strengths : the advantages of using boron doped diamond electrodes in electrochemical research"
School Seminar - Hosted by Robert Johnson
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Thursday 14th February 2025 at 11am
Professor Mats Tilset, University of Oslo
"Trans Effects in Gold(III) Chemistry: Implications for Structure, Reactivity, and Catalysis"
Visiting Extern Seminar - Hosted by Andrew Philips
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Wednesday 12th February 2025 at 11am
Fionn McNeill
PhD Student, Guiry Research Group, UCD
Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Aryl Stereocentres in Tetrahydro-4H-pyran-4-ones Using Decarboxylative Transformations
and
Christine Coffey
PhD Student, Hooper Research Group, UCD
Phosphorus Cations as Main Group Catalysts
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Session Chair: Marianne Haar
Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
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Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 11am
Ramanathan Rajesh
PhD student, Elghobashi-Meinhardt Research Group, UCD
"V-Nitrogenase reduction of carbon monoxide: A multiscale computational investigation"
and
Ioanna Bampouri
PhD student, Buckin Research Group, UCD
"Application of Ultrasonic Shear Wave Spectroscopy for Real-Time Monitoring of Static and Dynamic Liquid-Solid Interfaces"
Lessons in Chemistry PhD / Postdoc Seminar - Hosted by Nadia Elghobashi-Meinhardt
Room S3.56 Science South
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Wednesday 22nd January 2025 at 12 noon
Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester
"New methods for aniline and pyridine synthesis"
Visiting Extern Seminar - Hosted by Pat Guiry
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Thursday 16th January 2025 at 3pm
Professor Paul Pringle, University of Bristol
"Hydrophosphination: click chemistry for phosphine synthesis?"
Visiting Extern Seminar - Hosted by Tom Hooper
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Friday 17th January 2025 at 3pm
Mini Symposium
Professor Hannes Mikula of TU Wien
"Exit the Cube: Next-Level Bioorthogonal Click-to-Release"
School Seminar - Hosted by Aniello Palma
and
Professor Chris Richards of University of East Anglia
"Stereochemical Cooperativity in Asymmetric Catalysis"
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Pat Guiry
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Wednesday 4th December 2024 at 3.30pm
Professor Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh
School Seminar - Hosted by Grace Morgan
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Monday 25th November 2024 at 4pm
Professor Maurizio Benaglia, Università degli Studi di Milano
“Electrochemical and photoredox catalytic stereoselective reactions”
Visiting Extern Seminar - Hosted by Marcus Baumann
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Friday 15th November 2024 at 3pm
Professor Marty Gregg, Queens University Belfast
“Ferroelectric Domain Walls for Ephemeral Electronics”
Visiting Extern Seminar - Hosted by Tom Hooper
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Wednesday 6th November 2024 at 12pm
Dr Mary McCarthy, Sofinnova Partners
"From UCD BSc/PhD to Venture Capital Partner - A Journey"
School Seminar - Hosted by Patrick Guiry
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Monday 21 October 2024 at 2.30pm
Professor Francesca Paradisi, University of Bern
"Enzymes in Hybrid Catalytic Systems"
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Elaine O'Reilly
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Tuesday 08 October 2024 at 12pm
Professor Alison Parkin, University of York
“Fourier transformed voltammetry as a mechanistic and sensing electrochemical tool”
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Robert Johnson
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Tuesday 08 October 2024 at 2pm
Dr Rita Ventura, ITQB Nova, Portugal
“Carbohydrate synthesis for solving biological problems”
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Eoghan McGarrigle
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Wednesday 02 October 2024 at 10am
Associate Professor Paolo Actis, University of Leeds
“Nanopore sensing beyond the genomics era”
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Robert Johnson
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Thursday 26th September 2024 at 12pm
Professor Dominic Campopiano, University of Edinburgh
Visiting Extern Examiner - Hosted by Elaine O'Reilly
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Wednesday 11th September 2024 at 12pm
Dr Will Unsworth, University of York
"Ring expansion approaches for the synthesis of medium-sized rings and macrocycles"
School Seminar Series - Hosted by Aniello Palma
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