Last updated: 3 June 2025
Current Sector: Industry
Current Company: Reach Industries
PhD Project Title: Iron photocatalysis for the efficient synthesis of phosphorus-carbon bonds
Supervisor(s): Dr Ruth Webster and Dr Emma Emanuelsson Patterson
External Partner: CatSci and NTU
MRes Project 1: New materials systems for superconductive energy storage
Supervisor(s): Dr Valeska Ting and Dr Weijia Yuan
MRes Project 2: Iron’s in the Fire: Iron photocatalysis for the mild, atom economic synthesis of phosphines
Supervisor(s): Dr Ruth Webster
Cei graduated from the University of Nottingham with a BSc in Chemistry in 2007. Since then he has worked in industry, firstly for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, then for GlaxoSmithKline. Cei decided to come back to academia in order to cut the shackles on his imagination he felt in the commercial environments. Besides research, Cei’s interests include badminton, violin and using baking powder as a yeast substitute.
