The Group Gallery

Here are a few photos of group members past and present. We hope to add to these in due course! If you have a modern css-complient browser then hovering over the photo will show a larger version of the picture.

• Dr Kulbinder Banger
  Kal Banger (PhD 1998) did a lot of the early work on perfluorovinyl-containing compounds derived from the CFC-replacement, HFC-134a
• Drs Barnes and Williams
  Nick Barnes (PhD 2000) and Gareth Rhys Williams (PhD 2005) worked in the areas of fluorine-containing phosphines and phosphites
• Drs Williams, Greenall, Morey & Barnes
  Jackie Greenall (PhD 2004) worked on N-F fluorinating agents, with Gareth Rhys Williams, James Morey (MChem 2001) and Nick
• Professor Dick Powell with Jackie & Gareth
  Dick Powell ex-ICI and visiting professor at UMIST with Jackie and Gareth at the ESFC in Bordeaux
• Gareth and his Trifle!
  Gareth enjoying his trifle!
• Dr Crossley with Prof. Eric Banks
  Ian Crossley (PhD 2003) developed the trifluoropropynyl-containing compounds derived from the CFC-replacement, HFC-245fa. Here he is pictured with Eric Banks after winning the best presentation award at the RSC fluorine meeting, UMIST, 2002
• Andy Ballantyne
  Andy Ballantyne worked on fluorine-containing, hydrophobic, room temperature ionic liquids. Pictured next to his poster at the 17th ISFC in Shanghai, 2005 - Boy was it hot!
• Gavin Potter
  Gavin Potter carried out cyclisation work involving trifluoropropynyl-containing compounds. Here he is pictured next to his poster at the 17th ISFC in Shanghai, 2005
• Chris Mason and Andy Ballantyne
  Chris Mason was a post-doc in the group working on a fluoro-polymer related project, with Andy comparing notes at the poster display session at the Prague ESFC meeting in 2007
• Andy Ballantyne
  Andy Ballantyne giving his lecture at the Prague ESFC meeting in 2007
• Chris Herbert
  Chris Herbert who initiated our work on fluoroalkyl-containing phosphines won the student presenter prize at the 9th RSC Fluorine meeting, in Southampton in 2009
• Dr Alan Brisdon
  Alan Brisdon answering questions after his presentation at the Prague ESFC meeting in 2007
• Part of the Group in 2012
  Alan Brisdon, Farouk Al'Issa, Nick Barnes, Anthony Thomas, Hana Alhanash, Fatma Alhanash and Amina Ejganji after celebrating Hana and Fatma's PhD awards.
• Alan Brisdon pointing to his favourite element
  Alan Brisdon pointing to his favourite element - fluorine