BARHAM LAB
"Electrifying Photochemistry"
The Bear Clan
JASPREET KAUR
PhD student (Sofja Kovalevskaja) - Final year
Topics: Photocatalysis, Photoelectrochemistry, Photo-flow
Lead Papers: Synthesis 2022, 54, 1461 (Invited)
Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 2002 (Cover Feature);
Associated Papers: ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 1593;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202107811 (ESI Highly Cited 2022, Inside Front Cover);
ChemSusChem 2022, 15, e202200906 (Reader's choice article, July 2022. Selected for Wiley 'Hot Topic' C-C coupling and Photocatalysis)
ChemCatChem 2023, e202201542 (Invited, Special Issue: Photocatalysis);
SHAHBOZ YAKUBOV
PhD student (Elitenetzwerk Bayern) - Final year
Topics: Photocatalysis, Photochemistry
Lead Papers: Beilstein JOC 2020, 16, 2151
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 14041 (Outside Back Cover);
Patent Application: EP 23 205 559 0 (filed)
Associated Papers: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60,20817
ChemSusChem 2022, 15, e202200906
(Reader's choice article, July 2022. Selected for Wiley 'Hot Topic' C-C coupling and Photocatalysis)
MICHAL DOMANSKI
PhD student (UR) - 2nd year
DARIA CORSI
PhD Student (DFG SPP2370) - 2nd year
Topics: Microwave Chemistry, Flow Chemistry
Lead Papers: Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18,
7697 (Outside Front Cover);
Org. Process Res. Dev. 2022, 26, 2498
(Cover Feature)
Associated Papers: Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 1132
(ESI Highly Cited 2021, Outside Back Cover);
Topics: Photoelectrochemistry, Heterogeneous Catalysis
MATTIA LEPORI
PhD Student (Elitenetzwerk Bayern) - 2nd year
Topics: Electrochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry
Lead Publication: Beilstein JOC 2023, 19, 1055
WOLFGANG HAUMER
PhD Student (Sofja Kovalevskaja) - 1st year
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Topics: Electrochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry
JONATHAN SCHÜTTE
PhD Student (Sofja Kovalevskaja) - 1st year
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Topics: Photocatalysis, Photochemistry
SIMON SCHMID
PhD Student (Sofja Kovalevskaja) - 1st year
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Topics: Photoelectrochemistry, Electrochemistry
Lead Paper: Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055 (Invited Contribution; Special Issue: "Artificial Photosynthesis")
Associated Paper:
DR. CASSIE PRATLEY
DR. BOYA FENG
Postdoc. (Sofja Kovalevskaja) - First year
Postdoc. (CSC Scholarship Fellow)
Topics: Photocatalysis, Gas-liquid Flow Chemistry
Profile: ORCiD
Topics: Electrochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry
Profile: Google Scholar ; ORCiD
INDRASISH DEY
Placement student (SynCat)
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Topic: Photocatalysis,
Photoelectrochemistry
DAINA NINAN
Placement student (SynCat/Frauenhofer Straubing)
Topic: Electrochemistry
LUKAS JANISCH
Master Thesis student (UR Chemistry with Business)
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Topic: Microwave / Thermal Flow Chemistry
SOFYA TIMOFEEVA
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photocatalysis, Photo-flow
ALUMNI
Dr. Shangze Wu
Now: Postdoc, University of Leipzig, Prof. Tanja Gulder
Former: Postdoc. 2 years (Sofja Kovalevskaja Award)
Former Topics: Photocatalysis, Photoelectrochemistry
Lead Papers: Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 1132 (ESI Highly Cited 2021, Outside Back Cover);
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202107811 (ESI Highly Cited 2022, Inside Front Cover);
Associated Papers: J. Chem. Phys. 2023, 13, 144201;
Dr. Xianhai Tian
Now: Postdoc, John Hopkins University, Prof. Xiongyi Huang
Former: Postdoc. 3 years (Sofja Kovalevskaja Award)
Topics: Photocatalysis, Photoelectrochemistry
Lead Papers: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 20817 ; (Top downloaded article of 2021)
ChemSusChem 2022, 15, e202200906 (Reader's choice article, July 2022. Selected for Wiley 'Hot Topic' C-C coupling and Photocatalysis)
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2023, accepted.
Associated Papers: Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 14041 (Outside Back Cover);
Mark J. P. Mandigma
Ahmed Shahin
Now: PhD, University of Bristol, Prof. Varinder Aggarwal
Former: Master Thesis student (SynCat Program)
Former Topics: Photocatalysis, Gas-liquid Flow Chem
External Module: University of Zurich, Prof. Cristina Nevado
Lead Papers: Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 7697 (Outside Front Cover)
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 1912 (Most Popular 2021 Catalysis Article, Outside Back Cover);
ChemCatChem 2023, e202201542 (Invited, Special Issue: Photocatalysis);
Associated Papers: Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 14041 (Outside Back Cover);
Former: Master Thesis student (SynCat Program) & Research Assistant (UR)
Former Topics: Photocatalysis, Spectroscopy
Associated Papers:
Org. Lett. 2021, 6, 2002 (Cover Feature);
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 1912 (Most Popular 2021 Catalysis Article, Outside Back Cover);
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 14041 (Outside Back Cover)
Jonas Žurauskas
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Former: Master Thesis student (SynCat Progam)
Former Topics: Photocatalyst Synthesis, Photocatalysis,
Photoelectrochemistry
External Module: IOCB Prague, Prof. Tomáš Slanina
Lead Paper: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202307550
Associated Papers: Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 1912 (Most Popular 2021 Catalysis Article, Outside Back Cover);
Org. Process Res. Dev. 2022, 26, 2498 (Cover Feature)
Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 1132 (ESI Highly Cited 2021, Outside Back Cover);
PLACEMENT STUDENTS
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Adam Lehchilli
Master Thesis student (ERASMUS, University Strasbourg)
Topic: Photochemistry, Photo-Flow
Nakul Bapat
Master Thesis student (DAAD Wise, IISC Bangalore)
Group of Dr. Durga Prasad Hari
Topic: Photochemistry, Photo-Flow
Reji-Idiculla Roshen
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Continuous Flow Photochemistry
Simon Angerer
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photochemistry, Photo-Flow
Thomas Waltl
Placement student (UR)
Topic: Photocatalysis, Photo-Flow
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Andreas Lang
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photocatalysis, Photochemistry
Viktor Klöpfer
Master Thesis student (UR / Reiser Group)
Topic: Photochemistry, Photo-Flow
Ludwig d'Heureuse
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photochemistry, Photo-Flow
Joan Sander
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photoelectrochemistry
Armaz Tsutskiridze
Placement student (SynCat)
Topic: Photoelectrochemistry
DR. JOSHUA BARHAM
Sofja Kovalevskaja Group Leader
Joshua Philip Barham was born in 1991 in Watford (Hertfordshire, near London), United Kingdom. In 2013, he received his MSci. in Chemistry from University College London. During his Master Thesis, he developed an intramolecular conjugate addition nitro-Mannich reaction under the supervision of Prof. James (Jim) C. Anderson .
He joined the GlaxoSmithKline/University of Strathclyde Collaborative Ph.D programme for his doctoral studies, under the supervision of Prof. John A. Murphy (Strathclyde) and Dr. Matthew P. John (GSK). Based at GSK, he explored innovative methods for sustainable pharmaceutical manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), including photoredox catalysis and flow chemistry, within Global API Chemistry. During his secondment in the Murphy group at the University of Strathclyde, he investigated the mechanisms of transition metal-free coupling reactions of haloarenes with arenes.
After completing his Ph.D. in Feb. 2017, he went to the University of Shizuoka, Japan to join the group of Prof. Yoshitaka Hamashima for postdoctoral studies. There he investigated microwave flow chemistry supporting flow reactor manufacturer SAIDA FDS Inc. In 2018, he continued microwave flow chemistry research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, within the group of Prof. Yasuo Norikane .
Since Dec. 2019, Joshua P. Barham leads an independent research group at the University of Regensburg, investigating photo-, electro-, photoelectro- and flow chemistry in organic synthesis.
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS & FELLOWSHIPS
Dr. Otto Röhm Memorial Foundation Award
12.2022
Award value: 2000 EUR
05.2022 - Present
Award value (PI's share): 270,000 EUR (over 4 years)
co-P.I. (of 10 Bavarian-based applicants)
DFG Grant SPP 2370 "Nitroconversion"
05.2022 - Present
Award value (PI's share): 233,000 EUR (over 3 years)
co-P.I. with Dr. Oleksandr Savateev
"BayFrance" Grant - Bayerische-Französisches Hochschulzentrum
01.2022 - Present
Award value: 5,000 EUR (over 1 year)
co-P.I. with Prof. Gilles Marcou
To support an educational exchange between the University of Regensburg and University of Strasbourg on continuous flow chemistry/software driven chemistry and cheminformatics/machine learning
DAIMLER AND BENZ SCHOLARSHIP - DAIMLER AND BENZ STIFTUNG
02.2021 - Present
Award value: 40,000 EUR (over 2 years)
"Every year twelve selected postdocs, junior professors and heads of young research groups receive a grant from the foundation. It is intended to strengthen their professional career, especially during the productive phase after their doctorate. The funding amount (...) can, for example, be used flexibly to finance research assistants, technical equipment, research trips or to participate in conferences. The Daimler and Benz Foundation also promotes the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas through regular meetings of the yound scientists of this steadily growing network of scholarship holders in Ladenburg. The funding program is open to applicants from all scientific disciplines; there are no thematic restrictions"
THIEME CHEMISTRY JOURNAL AWARD - THIEME GRUPPE
01.2021
"The Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, established in 1999 with the aim to encourage young scientists, is granted to prospective chemists, who have been recognized as high-potential researchers in the field of synthetic organic chemistry by the editorial board members of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT and SYNFACTS"
SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD - ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION
11.2019 - Present
Award value: 1,610,000 EUR (over 5 years)
"The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is granted to young exceptionally promising researchers from abroad in recognition of outstanding academic achievements. The award is designed to enable them to embark on academic careers in Germany by establishing their own junior research groups at research institutions in Germany "
PATRICK D. RICHIE PRIZE - UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
07.2019
For "the best Thesis which combined scientific excellence with quality of presentation in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry session 2016-2017"
REAXYS PH.D PRIZE - ELSEVIER
10.2017
"With submissions received from over 400 academic institutions worldwide, the Reaxys PhD Prize is the most important and recognised international Prize for young chemists. No other award will impact the development of a scientist like the Reaxys PhD Prize"
JSPS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE
04.2018 - 08.2019
Award value: 8,640,000 JPY (over 2 years)
JSPS KAKENHI (Grant in Aid)- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Award value: 2,400,000 JPY (over 2 years)
PECRE FELLOWSHIP - SCOTTISH FUNDING COUNCIL
03.2017
Award value: 3,000 GBP
"To support international Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchange (PECRE)"
NEDO JAPAN TRUST FELLOWSHIP - NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, JAPAN
03.2017 - 04.2018
Award Value: 8,030,000 JPY (over 1 year)
GAVIN FORSYTH PRIZE - UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
03.2017
"This prize is awarded to a Ph.D student in the Organic Chemistry Section for outstanding performance in their second year of study"
TAYLOR & FRANCIS PRIZE - 24TH SCT YOUNG FELLOW RESEARCH MEETING, PARIS SUD UNIVERSITY
02.2017
Awarded for the oral presentation entitled: "Selective N-CH3 Functionalization of Trialkylamines"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD - 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ORGANIC FREE RADICALS, SIOC, SHANGHAI
10.2016
First prize awarded to a poster entitled: "Contra-thermodynamic Hydrogen Atom Abstraction in the Selective C-H Functionalization of Trialkylamine N-CH3 Groups" (64 worldwide entries, three prizes)
SILVER AWARD IN CHEMISTRY - SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (SET) FOR BRITAIN POSTER COMPETITION, U.K. PARLIAMENT, LONDON
03.2016
Awarded for the poster entitled: "Visible Light-Powered Synthesis: Making Light Work of Pharmaceuticals"
PH.D. STUDENT FELLOWSHIP - GLAXOSMITHKLINE/UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE COLLABORATIVE PH.D. PROGAMME
10.2013
Award value: 63,000 GBP (over 3.5 years)
FRANZ SONDHEIMER PRIZE - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
07.2013
This prize is awarded annually to the student with the most outstanding performance in organic chemistry at UCL"
DEAN'S LIST - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
07.2013
"Being included in the Dean's List is an honour given only to a few students each year. Its purpose is to commend those who have excelled in their chosen field of study"
ERC Starting Grant Awardee
11.2022 - Present
Award value: 1,500,000 EUR (over 5 years)
"The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal"
71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Nominee
06.2022 - 07.2022
"selected as one of the 600 most qualitfied young scientists who will get the opportunity to experience and contribute to the unique atmosphere of this year's Lindau Meeting"
International Doktoranden Kolleg (IDK) "Chemical Catalysis with Photonic or Electrical Energy Input"
05.2022 - Present
Award value (PI's share): 270,000 EUR (over 4 years)
co-P.I. (of 10 Bavarian-based applicants)
DFG Grant SPP 2370 "Nitroconversion"
05.2022 - Present
Award value (PI's share): 233,000 EUR (over 3 years)
co-P.I. with Dr. Oleksandr Savateev
"BayFrance" Grant - Bayerische-Französisches Hochschulzentrum
01.2022 - Present
Award value: 5,000 EUR (over 1 year)
co-P.I. with Prof. Gilles Marcou
To support an educational exchange between the University of Regensburg and University of Strasbourg on continuous flow chemistry/software driven chemistry and cheminformatics/machine learning
DAIMLER AND BENZ SCHOLARSHIP - DAIMLER AND BENZ STIFTUNG
02.2021 - Present
Award value: 40,000 EUR (over 2 years)
"Every year twelve selected postdocs, junior professors and heads of young research groups receive a grant from the foundation. It is intended to strengthen their professional career, especially during the productive phase after their doctorate. The funding amount (...) can, for example, be used flexibly to finance research assistants, technical equipment, research trips or to participate in conferences. The Daimler and Benz Foundation also promotes the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas through regular meetings of the yound scientists of this steadily growing network of scholarship holders in Ladenburg. The funding program is open to applicants from all scientific disciplines; there are no thematic restrictions"
THIEME CHEMISTRY JOURNAL AWARD - THIEME GRUPPE
01.2021
"The Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, established in 1999 with the aim to encourage young scientists, is granted to prospective chemists, who have been recognized as high-potential researchers in the field of synthetic organic chemistry by the editorial board members of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT and SYNFACTS"
SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD - ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION
11.2019 - Present
Award value: 1,610,000 EUR (over 5 years)
"The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is granted to young exceptionally promising researchers from abroad in recognition of outstanding academic achievements. The award is designed to enable them to embark on academic careers in Germany by establishing their own junior research groups at research institutions in Germany "
PATRICK D. RICHIE PRIZE - UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
07.2019
For "the best Thesis which combined scientific excellence with quality of presentation in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry session 2016-2017"
REAXYS PH.D PRIZE - ELSEVIER
10.2017
"With submissions received from over 400 academic institutions worldwide, the Reaxys PhD Prize is the most important and recognised international Prize for young chemists. No other award will impact the development of a scientist like the Reaxys PhD Prize"
JSPS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE
04.2018 - 08.2019
Award value: 8,640,000 JPY (over 2 years)
JSPS KAKENHI (Grant in Aid)- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Award value: 2,400,000 JPY (over 2 years)
PECRE FELLOWSHIP - SCOTTISH FUNDING COUNCIL
03.2017
Award value: 3,000 GBP
"To support international Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchange (PECRE)"
NEDO JAPAN TRUST FELLOWSHIP - NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, JAPAN
03.2017 - 04.2018
Award Value: 8,030,000 JPY (over 1 year)
GAVIN FORSYTH PRIZE - UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
03.2017
"This prize is awarded to a Ph.D student in the Organic Chemistry Section for outstanding performance in their second year of study"
TAYLOR & FRANCIS PRIZE - 24TH SCT YOUNG FELLOW RESEARCH MEETING, PARIS SUD UNIVERSITY
02.2017
Awarded for the oral presentation entitled: "Selective N-CH3 Functionalization of Trialkylamines"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD - 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ORGANIC FREE RADICALS, SIOC, SHANGHAI
10.2016
First prize awarded to a poster entitled: "Contra-thermodynamic Hydrogen Atom Abstraction in the Selective C-H Functionalization of Trialkylamine N-CH3 Groups" (64 worldwide entries, three prizes)
SILVER AWARD IN CHEMISTRY - SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (SET) FOR BRITAIN POSTER COMPETITION, U.K. PARLIAMENT, LONDON
03.2016
Awarded for the poster entitled: "Visible Light-Powered Synthesis: Making Light Work of Pharmaceuticals"
PH.D. STUDENT FELLOWSHIP - GLAXOSMITHKLINE/UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE COLLABORATIVE PH.D. PROGAMME
10.2013
Award value: 63,000 GBP (over 3.5 years)
FRANZ SONDHEIMER PRIZE - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
07.2013
This prize is awarded annually to the student with the most outstanding performance in organic chemistry at UCL"
DEAN'S LIST - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
07.2013
"Being included in the Dean's List is an honour given only to a few students each year. Its purpose is to commend those who have excelled in their chosen field of study"
CONTACT
Dr. Joshua P. Barham
Sofja Kovalevskaja Group Leader
Universitat Regensburg
Institut fur Organische Chemie
Universitätsstr. 31
+49 (0)941-943-4373