Latest group photo - March 2022
Photo credit - Dr Jessica Gusthart
Robert O'Toole
Robert O’Toole was born and raised in Greater Manchester, England. He obtained his MChem from the University of York (2021), where he explored supramolecular architectures as charge-storage devices under the guidance of Dr Alyssa Avestro. In the summer of 2020 during COVID lockdown, he developed computational modelling parameters for molybdenum-paddlewheel complexes with Dr Luke Wilkinson. Robert moved to Reading in Autumn 2021 to begin his
PhD studies in the Cooper group, where he will integrate stimuli-responsive supramolecular architectures into lipid bilayers to observe membrane transport properties
Robert O'Toole
Robert O’Toole was born and raised in Greater Manchester, England. He obtained his MChem from the University of York (2021), where he explored supramolecular architectures as charge-storage devices under the guidance of Dr Alyssa Avestro. In the summer of 2020 during COVID lockdown, he developed computational modelling parameters for molybdenum-paddlewheel complexes with Dr Luke Wilkinson. Robert moved to Reading in Autumn 2021 to begin his
PhD studies in the Cooper group, where he will integrate stimuli-responsive supramolecular architectures into lipid bilayers to observe membrane transport properties
PhD students
MSc students
Jason Panteli
Jason Panteli was born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of East Anglia (2023), where he studied the site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids, for the binding modification of nanobodies under the supervision of Dr Amit Sachdeva. Jason joined the Cooper research group in September 2023 to carry out an MSc in Chemical Research. His project focuses on incorporating mechanically interlocked molecules into polymers to generate stimuli-responsive materials.
Summer students
Oscar Brown
Oscar was brought up in Ascot, England. He is currently an MChem student at the University of Oxford, where he has spent three years developing a strong foundation in chemistry. He has joined the Cooper group for the summer of 2024, where he will be studying the properties of rotaxane-based anionophores.
Maximilian Wallenhorst
Maximilian Wallenhorst was raised in Tübingen, Germany. He is currently in his 3rd year of his BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany and joined the Cooper Group for the summer 2024 via the DAAD Rise program. His project focuses on the synthesis and study of stimuli-responsive transmembrane channels.
Georgia Roberts
MChem student
Undergraduate students
Amber Vadher-Lowe
BSc student