Dr Marc K. Etherington

Career

Education and qualifications

1. Contributions to the generation of knowledge

Key contributions

• From phosphorescence to delayed fluorescence in one step: tuning photophysical properties by quaternisation of an sp 2-hybridised nitrogen atom (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022). First demonstration of N-alkylation imbuing TADF in molecules that originally showed room-temperature phosphorescence.
• Simultaneous enhancement of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and photoluminescence quantum yield via homoconjugation (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022). Demonstrated that homoconjugation can significantly affect delayed emission processes as well as the photoluminescence quantum yield.
• Modulation of charge transfer by N-alkylation to control photoluminescence energy and quantum yield (Chemical Science, 2020). Showed how N-alkylation enhances the fluorescence yield of quinine-based compounds, opening a pathway to new emitters for displays.
• Persistent Dimer Emission in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials (The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019). Showed how dimer formation in TADF compounds affects colour purity and the TADF process in OLEDs, of significant interest to industry.
• Excited-State Aromatic Interactions in the Aggregation-Induced Emission of Molecular Rotors (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017). Demonstrated that simple molecules can have significant and unexpected intra- and intermolecular interactions that completely change their emissive behaviour.
• Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters (Nature Communications, 2017). Showed the significance of conformation for the TADF mechanism: one conformer displays TADF and the other does not, severely affecting device performance.
• Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (Nature Communications, 2016). The first experimental evidence of the spin-vibronic coupling mechanism and its influence on TADF.

Research funding

Publications (35; corresponding author on 10)

1. Jai-Ram Mistry, Patrick J. Kimber, Ruth M. Pollard, Glen Masterson, Lingyu Yang, Chloe R. Antonen, Stephanie Montanaro, Stefan Warrington, Simon J. Teat, Mark R. J. Elsegood, Felix Plasser, Marc K. Etherington & Iain A. Wright* Intramolecular hydrogen bonding enforced by crystal packing and vice versa in nitrophenyl-, nitropyridyl-, and nitropyrimidyl-bearing carbazoles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 28, 22280-22288, 2026. doi:10.1039/d6cp02608g
2. Stefan Warrington, Hristo Ivov Gonev, Gary S. Nichol, Eleanor M. Dodd, Simon J. Coles, Thomas J. Penfold, Marc K. Etherington, Tracey M. Clarke* & Iain A. Wright Homoconjugation-induced enhancements of photophysical properties in donor–acceptor triptycenes arise from interplay between intramolecular charge transfer and exciton states. Chemical Science, 17, 14590-14602, 2026. doi:10.1039/d6sc01073c
3. Ali Shuaib*, Lubna Salah, Antonio Prlj, Narendran Rajendran, Marc K. Etherington, Ahmed Abdel Nazeer, Carlito S. Ponseca Jr, Andrew P. Monkman, Andrew Danos* & Saad Makhseed* Singlet–triplet gaps for evaluating thermally activated delayed fluorescence: which one is the (b)EST?. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 14, 4353-4361, 2026. doi:10.1039/d5tc03735b
4. William D. Tetlow, Oliver S. Hutter, Marc K. Etherington* & Giulia Longo* Reduced temperature solid-state synthesis of barium sulfide: a greener alternative. RSC Advances, 15, 50446-50456, 2025. doi:10.1039/D5RA07445B
5. Naohiro Namba, Fumiya Ogura, Marc K. Etherington, Satoshi Minakata* & Youhei Takeda* Highly soluble cyclic dibenzophenazine heterodimer enabled by a tetra-functionalized building block. Chemistry Letters, 54, 12, 2025. doi:10.1093/chemle/upaf216
6. Rebecca J. Salthouse, Jacob L. Elholm, Irene Cortellazzi, Helen Hölzel, Pedro Ferreira, Lorette Fernandez, Marc K. Etherington & Kasper Moth-Poulsen* Modulation of Photoluminescence and Solar Thermal Energy Storage in Norbornadiene–Quadricyclane Dimers. Angewandte Chemie, e16629, 2025. doi:10.1002/anie.202516629
7. Ash G. Carter, Promeet K. Saha, Antara Sikder, Juan A. Aguilar, Andrew P. Monkman, Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro, Marc K. Etherington* & Paul R. McGonigal* Counterion-Mediated Luminophore Dimerization. Angewandte Chemie, 64, e202505433, 2025. doi:10.1002/anie.202505433
8. Joseph O. Watson, Ruth M. Pollard, Mark T. Sims, Marc K. Etherington* & Jonathan P. Knowles* A Modular Approach to Tuning Emissive N-Quinolyl Through-Space Charge Transfer States Using sp³-Scaffolds. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128, 11208–11215, 2024. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c05220
9. Rebecca J. Salthouse*, Yana M. Dikova, Marc K. Etherington, & J. A. Gareth Williams* Dinuclear platinum(ii) complexes featuring rigidly linked Pt(NCN)X units: the effect of X = SCN− in favouring low-energy, excimer-like luminescence. New Journal Of Chemistry, 48, 18865-18872, 2024. doi:10.1039/D4NJ03357D
10. Hwan-Hee Cho, Daniel G. Congrave*, Alexander J. Gillet, Stephanie Montanaro, Haydn E. Francis, Victor Riesgo-Gonzalez, Junzhi Ye, Rituparno Chowdury, Weixuan Zeng, Marc K. Etherington, Jeroen Royakkers, Oliver Millington, Andrew D. Bond, Felix Plasser, Jarvist M. Frost, Clare P. Grey, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Neil C. Greenham* & Hugo Bronstein* Suppression of Dexter transfer by covalent encapsulation for efficient matrix-free narrowband deep blue hyperfluorescent OLEDs. Nature Materials, 23, 519–526, 2024. doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01812-4
11. Lubna Salah, Saad Makhseed, Basma Ghazal, Ahmed Abdel Nazeer, Marc K. Etherington, Carlito Ponseca Jr., Chunyuong Li, Andrew P. Monkman, Andrew Danos* & Ali Shuaib* Covalently linked pyrene antennas for optically dense yet aggregation-resistant light-harvesting systems. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, 24878-24882, 2023. doi:10.1039/D3CP02586A
12. Ewan D. Matheson*, Yongtao Qu, Giray Kartopu, Marc K. Etherington, Guillaume Zoppi, Vincent Barrioz, & Neil S. Beattie A comparison of ZnO nanowires grown using hexamethylenetetramine and ammonium hydroxide on Al:ZnO nanoparticle seed layer. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 34, 1591, 2023. doi:10.1007/s10854-023-10992-9
13. Iain A. Wright*, Marc K. Etherington, Andrei S. Batsanov, Andrew P. Monkman* & Martin R. Bryce* Oxidation State Tuning of Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence in Phenothiazine and Phenothiazine-5,5-dioxide Dimers. Chemistry - A European Journal, e202300428, 2023. doi:10.1002/chem.202300428
14. Andrew T. Turley, Promeet K. Saha, Andrew Danos, Aisha N. Bismillah, Andrew P. Monkman, Dmitry S. Yufit, Basile F. E. Curchod, Marc K. Etherington & Paul R. McGonigal* Extended Conjugation Attenuates the Quenching of Aggregation-Induced Emitters by Photocyclization Pathways. Angewandte Chemie, 134, 24, 2022. doi:10.1002/anie.202202193
15. Anastasia Klimash, Antonio Prlj, Dmitry S. Yufit, Abhijit Mallick, Basile F. E. Curchod, Paul R. McGonigal, Peter J. Skabara* & Marc K. Etherington* From phosphorescence to delayed fluorescence in one step: tuning photophysical properties by quaternisation of an sp 2-hybridised nitrogen atom. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 9484-9491, 2022. doi:10.1039/d2tc01737g
16. Tom Cardeynaels, Marc K. Etherington*, Simon Paredis, Andrei S. Batsanov, Jasper Deckers, Kleitos Stavrou, Drik Vanderzande, Andrew P. Monkman, Benoit Champagne & Wouter Maes* Dominant dimer emission provides colour stability for red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 5840-5848, 2022. doi:10.1039/d1tc04913e
17. Stephanie Montanaro, Piotr Pander, Jai-Ram Mistry, Mark R. J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, Andrew D. Bond, Iain A. Wright*, Daniel G. Congrave* & Marc K. Etherington* Simultaneous enhancement of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and photoluminescence quantum yield via homoconjugation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 6306-6313, 2022. doi:10.1039/d2tc00460g
18. Lubna Salah, Marc K. Etherington*, Ali Shuaib, Andrew Danos, Ahmed A. Nazeer, Basma Ghazal, Antonio Prlj, Andrew T. Turley, Abhijit Mallick, Paul R. McGonigal, Basile F. E. Curchod, Andrew P. Monkman & Saad Makhseed* Suppressing dimer formation by increasing conformational freedom in multi-carbazole thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9, 189-198, 2021. doi:10.1039/d0tc04222f
19. Marc K. Etherington* Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Beyond the Single Molecule. Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, 2020. doi:10.3389/fchem.2020.00716
20. Andrew T. Turley, Andrew Danos, Antonio Prlj, Andrew P. Monkman, Basile F. E. Curchod, Paul R. McGonigal* & Marc K. Etherington* Modulation of charge transfer by N-alkylation to control photoluminescence energy and quantum yield. Chemical Science, 11, 6990-6995, 2020. doi:10.1039/d0sc02460k
21. Reinhard Scholz, Paul Kleine, Ramunas Lygaitas, Ludwig Popp, Simone Lenk, Marc K. Etherington, Andrew P. Monkman & Sebastian Reineke Investigation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Donor–Acceptor Compound with Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Density Functional Theory Applying an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124, 8, 1535-1553, 2020. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11083
22. Stephanie Montanaro, Daniel G. Congrave, Marc K. Etherington & Iain A. Wright* Homoconjugation enhances the photophysical and electrochemical properties of a new 3D intramolecular charge transfer iptycene displaying deep blue emission. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, 12886-12890, 2019. doi:10.1039/c9tc03255j
23. Nadzeya A. Kukhta, Heather F. Higginbotham, Tomas Matulaitis, Andrew Danos*, Aisha N. Bismillah, Nils Haase, Marc K. Etherington, Dmitry S. Yufit, Paul R. McGonigal, Juozas V. Gražulevičius & Andrew P. Monkman* Revealing resonance effects and intramolecular dipole interactions in the positional isomers of benzonitrile-core thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, 9184-9194, 2019. doi:10.1039/c9tc02742d
24. Kai-Lin Woon*, Chih-Lun Yi, Kuan-Chung Pan, Marc K. Etherington, Chung-Chih Wu*, Ken-Tsung Wong* & Andrew P. Monkman* Intramolecular Dimerization Quenching of Delayed Emission in Asymmetric D–D′–A TADF Emitters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 19, 12400-12410, 2019. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01900
25. Marc K. Etherington*, Nadzeya A. Kukhta, Heather F. Higginbotham, Andrew Danos, Aisha N. Bismillah, David R. Graves, Paul R. McGonigal, Nils Haase, Antonia Morherr, Andrei S. Batsanov, Christof Pflumm, Vandana Bhalla, Martin R. Bryce & Andrew P. Monkman Persistent Dimer Emission in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 17, 11109-11117, 2019. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01458
26. Piotr Pander, Radoslaw Motyka, Pawel Zassowski, Marc K. Etherington, Daniele Varsano, Tales J. da Silva, Marilia J. Caldas, Przemyslaw Data* & Andrew P. Monkman Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Mediated through the Upper Triplet State Manifold in Non-Charge-Transfer Star-Shaped Triphenylamine–Carbazole Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, 42, 23934-23942, 2018. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07610
27. Heather F. Higginbotham, Piotr Pander, Renata Rybakiewicz, Marc K. Etherington, Subshani Maniam, Malgorzata Zagorska, Adam Pron, Andrew P. Monkman & Przemyslaw Data* Triphenylamine disubstituted naphthalene diimide: elucidation of excited states involved in TADF and application in near-infrared organic light emitting diodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 8219-8225, 2018. doi:10.1039/c8tc02936a
28. Paloma L. dos Santos*, Marc K. Etherington & Andrew P. Monkman Chemical and conformational control of the energy gaps involved in the thermally activated delayed fluorescence mechanism. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 4842-4853, 2018. doi:10.1039/c8tc00991k
29. Jiri Sturala, Marc K. Etherington, Aisha N. Bismillah, Heather F. Higginbotham, William Trewby, Juan A. Aguilar, Elizabeth H. C. Bromley, Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro*, Andrew P. Monkman* & Paul R. McGonigal* Excited-State Aromatic Interactions in the Aggregation-Induced Emission of Molecular Rotors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, 49, 17882-17889, 2017. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b08570
30. Heather F. Higginbotham, Marc K. Etherington & Andrew P. Monkman* Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Anisotropy from Oriented Films of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, 13, 2930-2935, 2017. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00729
31. Rongjuan Huang, João Avó, Thomas Northey, Emma Chaning-Pearce, Paloma L. dos Santos, Jonathan S. Ward, Przemyslaw Data, Marc K. Etherington, Mark A. Fox, Thomas J. Penfold, Mário N. Berberan-Santos, João C. Lima, Martin R. Bryce & Fernando B. Dias* The contributions of molecular vibrations and higher triplet levels to the intersystem crossing mechanism in metal-free organic emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5, 6269-6280, 2017. doi:10.1039/c7tc01958k
32. Marc K. Etherington, Flavio Franchello, Jamie Gibson, Thomas Northey, Jose Santos, Jonathan S. Ward, Heather F. Higginbotham, Przemyslaw Data, Aleksandra Kurowska, Paloma L. dos Santos, David R. Graves, Andrei S. Batsanov, Fernando B. Dias, Martin R. Bryce, Thomas J. Penfold & Andrew P. Monkman* Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Nature Communications, 8, 14987, 2017. doi:10.1038/ncomms14987
33. Marc K. Etherington, Jamie Gibson, Heather F. Higginbotham, Thomas J. Penfold & Andrew P. Monkman* Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Nature Communications, 7, 13680, 2016. doi:10.1038/ncomms13680
34. Marc K. Etherington, Jianpu Wang, Philip C. Y. Chow & Neil C. Greenham* Recombination pathways in polymer:fullerene photovoltaics observed through spin polarization measurements. Applied Physics Letters, 104, 063304, 2014. doi:10.1063/1.4865203
35. Chien-Jung Chiang, Alpay Kimyonok, Marc K. Etherington, Gareth C. Griffiths, Vygintas Jankus, Figen Turksoy* & Andrew P. Monkman* Ultrahigh Efficiency Fluorescent Single and Bi-Layer Organic Light Emitting Diodes: The Key Role of Triplet Fusion. Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 6, 739-746, 2013. doi:10.1002/adfm.201201750

Invited talks (15)

• 2026: Methylated pyridinium salts as luminophores for bioimaging with glassy organic dots, The 36th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Kanazawa (Japan)
• 2025: A Glowing Legacy: How Quinine Inspires Single-Chromophore Emitters with Delayed Emission, Kyushu University (Japan)
• 2025: A Glowing Legacy: How Quinine Inspires Single-Chromophore Emitters with Delayed Emission, University of Osaka (Japan)
• 2025: A Glowing Legacy: How Quinine Inspires Single-Chromophore Emitters with Delayed Emission, Kitasato University (Japan)
• 2025: Quinine: Is this the tonic for a new class of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters?, University of Edinburgh (UK)
• 2024: Lone pair interactions, charge transfer and the pathways towards thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), Newcastle University (UK)
• 2022: Intermolecular interactions in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, Aggregate Science in Organic Electroluminescence and Charge Transport, Wiley (UK), online
• 2022: Intermolecular interactions in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, SPIE, San Diego Convention Center (USA)
• 2021: Thermally activated delayed fluorescence: Beyond the single molecule, 6th International TADF Workshop, Kyushu University (Japan), online
• 2021: Thermally activated delayed fluorescence: Beyond the single molecule, NECEM Photophysics for Energy Materials Conference, Newcastle University (UK), online
• 2020: Capturing tonic water’s blue glow for photonic applications, Natural Sciences Hour, University of York (UK), online
• 2020: Capturing tonic water’s blue glow for photonic applications, North East Centre for Energy Materials (NECEM), Newcastle University (UK), online
• 2020: Modulation of charge transfer by N-alkylation to control photoluminescence energy and quantum yield, Durham Energy Institute, Durham University (UK), online
• 2020: Controlling charge transfer in tonic water and looking at thermally activated delayed fluorescence beyond the single molecule, Department of Physics, University of Sheffield (UK), online
• 2019: Persistent dimer emission in thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh (UK)

2. Contributions to the development of individuals

Supervision

• Aidan Matthews, PhD student (current): Cage linker systems for charge transfer, room-temperature phosphorescence and TADF
• Will Tetlow, PhD student (current): Solid-state synthesis of pure and doped BaS for optoelectronic applications
• Nae Aota, Visiting PhD student from The University of Osaka: TADF systems for bioimaging applications
• Ruth Pollard, PhD student (2021 to 2026): Through-space charge transfer in N-quinolyl systems. Now: Completed her PhD in 2026 and now lives in Canada.
• Oliver Rigby, Research Associate
• Chris Hogg, Research Assistant (May to August 2023): Caged Excitement. Now: Joined Prof. Paul McGonigal's group at the University of York, before following that group to the University of Oxford.
• Ash Carter, PhD (secondary supervisor) (2021 onwards): Primary supervisor Prof. Paul McGonigal. Polymeric fluorescence standards from medium-independent emitters.
• Erasmus Masters student (TU Eindhoven), Masters thesis (2013 to 2014): Magnetic field effects on pentacene-PbSe nanocrystal photovoltaics; first-class equivalent.
• Undergraduate and MSc project students, BSc, MPhys and MSc projects (2017 onwards): Typically six or seven per year at Northumbria, plus fourth-year projects at Durham.

Students' prizes and awards

• Will Tetlow: Poster prize, RSC Photophysics and Photochemistry Group Early Career Meeting 2026 (2026)
• Aidan Matthews: Poster prize, RSC Organic Chemistry Regional Meeting (2026)
• Aidan Matthews: GBSF travel grant, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2026)
• Ruth Pollard: GBSF travel grant, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2025)
• Ruth Pollard: RSC Researcher Collaborations Grant, Royal Society of Chemistry (2025)
• Ruth Pollard: Poster prize, RSC Photophysics and Photochemistry Group Early Career Meeting 2024 (2024)

Research visits by group members

• Ruth Pollard to Prof. Zac Hudson, University of British Columbia (2025), funded by RSC Researcher Collaborations Grant
• Ruth Pollard to Dr Youhei Takeda, The University of Osaka (2025), funded by GBSF travel grant and JST ASPIRE
• Aidan Matthews to Dr Youhei Takeda, The University of Osaka (2026), funded by GBSF travel grant and JST ASPIRE
• Marc Etherington to Prof. Sebastian Reineke, Technical University Dresden (2026), funded by British Council Springboard
• Aidan Matthews to Prof. Sebastian Reineke, Technical University Dresden (2026), funded by British Council Springboard

Teaching

• KD4015 Experiments and Discovery (Level 4): Module leader, lecturer and demonstrator (since 2020)
• KD5083 Semiconductor Physics (Level 5): Module leader (since 2021), lecturer since 2020
• KL6003 Quantum and Molecular Photonics (Level 6): Lecturer (since 2022); co-developed the module
• KD5080 Electronic Product Design (Nanjing Institute of Technology) (Short course): Lecturer (since 2022)
• MSc Engineering Projects (KD7065) (2021 onwards)
• Individual Engineering Projects (KD6024) (2020 onwards)
• Individual Physics Projects (KD6040) (2020 to 2021)

3. Contributions to the wider research community

Peer review

Journals: Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Science, Chemical Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS Au, Materials Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Advanced Optical Materials, Aggregate, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Frontiers in Chemistry, Science Bulletin, Organic Electronics, Dyes and Pigments, Synthetic Metals. Grant reviewing: French National Research Agency (ANR), National Science Centre Poland (NCN).

Events organised

• Maximising the rISC: international TADF workshop series: Co-organiser and chair, 2016, 2018 and 2020 (online). With Newcastle University; up to 200 attendees, with industry sponsorship.

Collaborations

• Prof. Andy Monkman, Durham University (UK): Long-standing collaboration on TADF materials and photophysics. Joint publications in Nature Communications, JACS and Angewandte Chemie.
• Dr Youhei Takeda, The University of Osaka (Japan): International collaboration funded by JST ASPIRE on advanced TADF systems for bioimaging
• Prof. Go Watanabe, Kitasato University (Japan): Molecular dynamics of quinine salts and partner on JST ASPIRE project
• Prof. Paul McGonigal, University of Oxford (UK): Molecular design and synthesis expertise. Joint work on aggregation-induced emission systems with publications in JACS, Angewandte Chemie and Chemical Science.
• Prof. Zac Hudson, University of British Columbia (Canada): Polymer dots for biosensing; Ruth Pollard's three-month research visit to the Hudson Lab; project partner on JST ASPIRE grant
• Prof. Sebastian Reineke, Technical University Dresden (Germany): British Council Springboard consortium with the teams of Sebastian Reineke, Sebastian Schellhammer and Christina Dornack.
• Prof. Piotr de Silva, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark): Project partner on JST ASPIRE Grant
• Dr Iain Wright, University of Edinburgh (UK): Long-time collaboration on homoconjugation and TADF systems
• Dr Leonardo Furini, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil): Royal Society ISPF-funded APHiD collaboration on aggregation-induced emitters for pesticide and herbicide detection.
• Prof. Saad Makhseed, Kuwait University (Kuwait): Multi-carbazole TADF emitters and light-harvesting systems; time-resolved fluorescence set up during a 2019 visit.

Leadership, service and visiting positions

Recognition and memberships

• Department of Physics Award for Excellence, Durham University (2018). For outstanding research in organic light-emitting devices and the coupling mechanism of TADF.
• Memberships: Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), Institute of Physics (MInstP), Advance HE (FHEA), American Chemical Society.

4. Contributions to broader society

• School outreach talks for Sixth Form students (2023 onwards)
• The Fever Tree: How Quinine Lit the Way Towards Modern Spectroscopy, Lit & Phil, Newcastle (public lecture) (2023)
• Nuffield Research Placement provider (2015 to 2020). My 2016 student won a national award at the Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Competition (2017).
• Thinking Outside the Box (college module), Hatfield College, Durham (2018)
• Physics post-offer open days, Durham University (2016 to 2018)
• Celebrate Science festival volunteer, Durham University (2015)
• Quinine-based fluorescence standards with Starna Scientific Ltd (Durham University and EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account, 2019)
• Springboard consortium with PRUUVE GmbH and HORIBA UK (British Council, 2025)
• Pesticide and herbicide detection for the Brazilian agricultural industry (APHiD) (The Royal Society (International Science Partnership Fund, International Collaboration Awards), 2024)

Additional information

Other awards

• RSC Researcher Development and Travel Grants (2022, 2023)
• Industry sponsorship and RSC Scientific Meetings Grant for Maximising the rISC (2016, 2018)
• Hatfield Trust Summer Internship funding (2018)
• Cambridge Philosophical Society and Clare College travel grants (2014, 2015)
• Grey College Trust travel grant (2010)

Early research experience

• Visiting student researcher, University of Gothenburg (2010)
• Summer research student, Durham University (2010)
• Student Fellow, Australian Astronomical Observatory, Sydney (2009)