
Last updated: 19 May 2025
Current Sector: Industry
Current Company: Roche
PhD Project Title: Selective Catalytic C-H Functionalization for Drug Discovery and Manufacture
Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Frost and Dr Darrell Patterson
External Partner: Novartis
MRes Project 1: Ru catalysed C-H activation
Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Frost
MRes Project 2: Sustainable production of pharmaceuticals – novel continuous processing
Supervisor(s): Professor Stan Kolaczkowski, Dr Darrell Patterson & Professor Christopher Frost
Andy graduated with an MSci degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 2011 which also involved an industrial placement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. His research interests are in synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry and his final year at Bristol was spent working on boron mediated cross couplings. Outside of the academic environment, his interests include music and sports.