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Last updated: 19 May 2025

MRes/PhD
CSCT
Industry
First Destination
Industry
Current Role

Current Sector: Industry

Current Company: Sterling Pharma Solutions

PhD Project Title: Sustainable catalytic methodology for functional group manipulation

Supervisor(s): Professor Jonathan Williams, Dr Pawel Plucinski and Professor Steven Bull

External Partner: GSK

MRes Project 1: Production of a novel 3rd generation biofuel from yeasts grown on waste resources

Supervisor(s): Chris Chuck (Chemical Engineering)

Supervisor(s): Dr Matthew Jones


MRes Project 2: N-Oxides as organocatalysts

Supervisor(s): Dr Steven Bull & Professor Jonathan Williams

Caroline graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2012 with an MChem in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry. For her final year Masters project she investigated the use of isothioureas as organocatalysts. During her degree she also undertook an industrial placement at GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina, where she worked in a Chemical Biology group for a year. Outside of academia Caroline enjoys spending time reading, swimming and socialising.