Past members of the group.
Patrick Herlihy peh21@sussex.ac.uk
I am in the final year of my Undergraduate Chemistry degree at the University of Sussex and am working on my MChem project in the group. I am currently investigating the energies of 3 Body Coulomb Potential Systems and their stabilities. I use a method of solving the Schrodinger Equation developed by the Cox group to calculate the energies of various 3 body systems and use a variation on this method to locate the point at which a 3 Body system dissociates into a 2-Bodied system.
James Mattock jdm30@sussex.ac.uk
I am in the final year of my Undergraduate Chemistry degree at the University of Sussex and am carrying out my MChem project in the group. I am performing a computational analysis of uranium tetrachloride with a view to applying the techniques to a large uranium system to investigate why a ligand change results in a change of colour.
Clara Fedullo (Main Supervisor Dr Eddy Viseux) cf210@sussex.ac.uk
I am currently in the final year of my Undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Sussex. My role is to computationally investigate the interconversion energy barrier of the different atropisomers of various phospholes and phosphole oxides derived from BINAP.
Emma Coakley
ec267@sussex.ac.uk
My name is Emma and I am a final year MChem student working in the Cox Lab. My interests are within computational chemistry applied to inorganic complexes.
Andrew King awk21@sussex.ac.uk
I am in my final year of my PhD, and I have had the pleasure of working in this group and on the quantum chemistry of a variety of aspects of chemistry. Currently we are investigating the quantum chemistry of atoms and small molecules. This is done by using and writing programs to accurately represent these 3-body systems; and then to investigate a wide variety of interesting topics with them. In the past I have also worked with the more conventional programs of quantum chemistry such as Gaussian and ADF, to calculate excited state spectra and activation of small molecules, with metal complexes.
Luke Rhodes
lcr23@sussex.ac.uk
I am a final year MChem student currently researching electron correlation in two electron atomic systems (also known as 3 body systems). These are the simplest systems in which electron correlation is present, and so provide the perfect laboratory to probe the effect of the interacting electrons. Its great fun!
Gavin Roffe (Joint wih Dr John Spencer) gwr20@sussex.ac.uk
After completing my MChem at Sussex I began a PhD combining experimental and theoretical study. I am working on the synthesis and catalytic evaluation of unsymmetrical pincer palladacycles (in the Spencer group) and aim to explain their reactivity using DFT (in the Cox group).
Rob Ziolekrz44@sussex.ac.uk
I joined the Cox Group in September 2015 to undertake my final year MChem project. I am researching electron correlation in two-electron atoms and ions, focussing on the effect of spin state.
Kylie Okoro
ko77@sussex.ac.uk
I joined the Cox Group in September 2016 to undertake my final year MChem project. I am studying the functionalisation of a benzodiazepine by palladium acetate to form a new drug. Density functional theory is employed to ascertain energies of minima and transition states to build up a reaction profile of the mechanism.
Sarote (Pop) Boonseng sb615@sussex.ac.uk
I joined the Cox lab in September 2013 funded by the Royal Thai Government Scholarship. I obtained a B.Sc. in chemistry and a M.Sc. in applied analytical and inorganic chemistry from Mahidol University (Thailand). I am working on computational inorganic chemistry to study pincer palladacycles using quantum calculation.