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Paul is an inorganic coordination chemist with significant interests in the photophysics and photochemistry of coordination compounds. He started his academic career obtaining his MChem Chemistry from the University of York (2001) before moving to the University of Sheffield to commence research for his PhD (2005) on iridium-catalysed methanol carbonylation working with Dr Tony Haynes. He then returned to York to conduct postdoctoral research on application of parahydrogen-induced polarisation in NMR spectroscopy working with Prof Simon Duckett (2004-2007). He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2007 and is now Associate Dean (International) of the School of Applied Sciences having obtained his chair in 2018.

ORCID 0000-0003-1570-3289 

Paul is a synthetic inorganic chemist with a background and strong interest in the photophysical study of transition metal complexes. He obtained his MChem degree from the University of Sheffield (2010), before undertaking doctoral studies (PhD, Sheffield, 2014) with Prof Julia Weinstein on photo-induced electron transfer in Pt(II) complexes and the excited-state Infra-Red controlled switching of photo-induced electron transfer outcomes.  He moved to the University of Huddersfield in 2014, taking up a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant role with Prof Paul Elliott, investigating the photophysical and photochemical properties of triazole-containing complexes of Ru(II), Os(II) and Ir(III). Moving to a Research Fellow position in 2018, Paul is now embarking upon research into the photophysical properties of Earth-abundant first-row transition metal complexes.

ORCID 0000-0003-1570-3289 

Rayhaan was awarded his MChem Chemistry degree from the University of Huddersfield (2018). While there he worked as a placement student with Dr. Nathan Patmore (2016) looking into “Ferrocene-Containing Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers” before moving into the Elliott group (2017) where he conducted his final-year project “Ruthenium Triazolyl Complexes as Potential Cancer Therapy Agents”. He stayed within the Elliott group to commence research for his PhD entitled “Multimodal Metal Complexes as Anticancer and Antimicrobial Theranostic Platforms”, with special interest in Os(II) and Ru(II) complexes.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayhaan-boota-05781919b/

Final year PhD student

Final year PhD student

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