Dr Martin R. Gill
Group Leader and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Martin is from near Llanelli in west Wales and obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield. After staying in the steel city with EPSRC and Wellcome Trust Fellowships, Martin then undertook further postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, Department of Oncology. In 2019, Martin returned to Wales in the Department of Chemistry at Swansea University. Martin is a fan of both the Scarlets and Wales and his other interests include hiking, bouldering, music, gaming and travel.
Natália Kolozsvári
Natália studied at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics before undertaking her PhD in the group at Swansea. She is now a postdoctoral researcher examining the chemical biology of ruthenium metallo-intercalators and application in cancer combination therapy.
Sujani Imaduwa Wickrama Acharige
Sujani holds a BSc in Chemistry from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka and MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of South Wales. Her project is exploring the potential of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes in activating immune response in cancer cells.
Luke Magson
Luke is a Swansea University graduate who started his PhD in 2024. Luke is doing a project on designing multimodal nanomaterials for combating antimicrobial resistance and is fortunate enough to have three supervisors to assist him...​
Jacob Isaac
Jacob is a graduate of Swansea University and joined the group in 2023. His primary supervisor is Dr Emrys Evans and his research is examining radical materials and devices. Jacob's often doing pretty adventurous things like climbing and pilgramages!
Gan Yian Chee
Gan Yian Chee from Johor, Malaysia, received her BSc. (Hons) in Petroleum Chemistry from the University of Putra Malaysia in 2019. Her current PhD work is concerned with synthesis, DNA binding properties, and drug combination studies of Ru(II) anticancer complexes.
Gan is co-supervised with Prof. Haslina Ahmad, UPM.
Project students:
Charlie Heath, Masha Zhukovska, Abi Taylor, Constantine Malinovski
Past members:
Nur Aininie Yusoh. Ninie was co-supervised with Prof. H Ahmad, Universiti Putra Malaysia and has since moved to a postdoctoral position in Prof Tian's lab in Sichuan University.
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Steffan James. A Swansea chemistry graduate, Steff did his final year project in the group and liked it so much he did his MRes here! Steff earned a PhD place in Imperial College London.
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Dr Chris Elgar. Chris was the group's first postdoc, played a vital role in setting up the lab, and then moved on to a postdoc in Leicester.
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Paul Tiley. Paul joined the group as an MRes student and was the first official member of the group! He then undertook a PhD in Reading.