Group update

It’s been a while since a group update has been given, so here are the highlights:

  • Ben and Chloe joined the group as Masters students in March and have already made great progress. Chloe will also conduct experiments, as she is co-supervised by Prof. Evan Bieske
  • Congratulations, Amy, for submitting your PhD thesis
  • Congratulations, Erica, for submitting your Masters thesis. Erica will be leaving the group next week. You’ll be missed, Erica. All the best for your future career.
  • Quyen’s 12 months stay here is coming to an end. She will return to Belgium soon to complete her joint-PhD degree with KU Leuven there.
  • Lars Goerigk has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Computational Chemistry.

New joint experimental-computational paper

Congratulations, Haseena, on the first paper of her PhD, which just got published in Inorganic Chemistry and is a joint computational-experimental study led by Prof. Colette Boskovic and in collaboration with Dr Marcus Giansiracusa. The paper is called “Cobalt Complexes with Aminophenolate Ligands: Spin Crossover and Ligand Versatility” and can be accessed here.





Publication in Nature Communications

We are excited that we could contribute computationally to this publication in Nature Communications:

S. Moggach, A. Summers, Z. Zahir, M. Hay, G. Turner, A. Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, R. Williamson , S. Boer, L. Goerigk, C. Boskovic, “Putting the Squeeze on Valence Tautomerism in Cobalt-Dioxolene Complexes” Nature Communications 2024, 15, 8922. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53311-4 (open access)


Multiple awards for Goerigk Group students

Congratulations to those group members who won awards at the 2024 Graduate Researcher Conference here at the School of Chemistry:

  • Amy Hancock : Judge’s choice poster prize
  • Ariel Jones: Best design award, 2nd place long talk award
  • Erica Giudici: 3rd place short talk.




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