Last updated: 28 May 2025
Current Sector: Industry
Current Company: GSK
PhD Project Title: Engineering defects and disorder for enhanced pharmaceutical properties
Supervisor(s): Professor Chick Wilson, Dr Bernardo Castro Dominguez and Professor Matthew Davidson
External Partner: AstraZeneca and CMAC
MRes Project 1: Making Chemicals from sunlight
Supervisor(s): Emma Emanuelsson-Patterson (Chemical Engineering)
MRes Project 2: Planting the seed for better healthcare
Aneesa graduated with an MChem in 2017. Her thesis discussed the synthesis of a significantly rare spiro [indoline-2,4′-quinoline] system. Through multi-step rearrangements of simple heterocyclic starting materials, to the architecturally complex spirocyclic system. She joined the CSCT to continue with research whilst focusing on her main interest in sustainability. Outside academia she enjoys travelling, hiking, skiing, basically anything that involves the great outdoors.




