The Current Group
The group works in supramolecular chemistry. You can find group photos above or below if you want to put a name to a face.
Dan completed his doctoral studies at the University of Otago, before undertaking a Rutherford Fellowship at the University of Canterbury (NZ). He started a DECRA fellowship at the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in 2020, and began a Future Fellowship at the start of 2024. He’s an associate professor.
Postdoctoral researchers
Jordan Smith is a postdoctoral fellow (another ex-Otago person!) who spends his time making interlocked architectures.
Alvin Li is an independent postdoc working on a collaboration between Trevor Rapson (CSIRO) and Rob Chapman (University of Newcastle) who works out of our space on occasion.
Doctoral students
Jess Algar worked on an undergraduate research project and as a research assistant with us in 2021, then did her Honours project in the group in 2022, winning a University Medal. She took a year out and started a PhD with us in 2024. She’s working on controlling connectivity and conformation in self-assembled systems.
Jason Buchanan is working on a joint PhD project between our group and the Connal group also here at ANU using pairings in metallo-polymers.
Nina Lawson did her Honours project, co-supervised by Nick White, working on subcomponent self-assembly using metal ions and hydrazones, and is now back doing her PhD on the combination of dynamic covalent and metallosupramoelcular chemistry.
Steph Jones did an Honours project with us in 2023. She is now back for more punishment working on her doctoral project on large supramolecules, using our pairings based approach.
Honours students
Bronte-Rae McCutcheon did an undergraduate project with us in 2024 and is now doing her Honours project on some supramolecular self-assembly methodologies. She will be back for a PhD in 2027.
Liz Elphick worked with Zack on some Pt(II) cages and is now spending her Honours year working on functional Pd(II) cages. She will be back for a PhD in 2027.
Undergraduate project students
Matthew Hann will be working with us in 2027.
Past Members
Postdoctoral researchers
- James Findlay (2021) – now working R&D in Melbourne
- Rosie Goodwin (2025 – 2026) – now a lecturer at UNSW ADFA, Canberra
PhD students
- Zack Avery (2023 – 2026) did his PhD with us – currently doing a postdoctoral position with Paul McGonigal at Oxford.
Honours students
- James Phillips (2023) – went on to a PhD in drug discovery in Biology, ANU
- Jacob Gome (2024) – currently doing a PhD in Chemistry with the Severin Group, EPFL
- Yo Yau (2024) – now about to study to become a teacher
Undergraduate project students
- Kya Lamarra (2023)
- Tim Nguyen (2025)
- Chi Canty (2025)
- Jarell Cubarrubia (2025)
- Jiayi Liu (2025)
- Dev Shah (2026)
- Rebecca Hoffman (2026)
- Alex Brimshead (2026)
Past Photos
