Last updated: 3 June 2025
Current Sector: Research Management
Current Company: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
PhD Project Title: Mesoporous metals for inductively heated catalysis
Supervisor: Adam Squires (Chemistry)
Supervisor: Alf Hill (Chemical Engineering)
External Partner: SPECIFIC
MRes Project 1: Enhanced water treatment of hormone-mimic pollutants: investigating reaction chemistry in a photocatalytic spinning mesh disc reactor
Supervisor(s): Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern (Chemistry)
Supervisor(s): Dr Emma Emanuelsson-Patterson
MRes Project 2: Iron will! Iron catalysed isomerisation of double bonds
Supervisor(s): Dr Ruth Webster and Professor Steven Bull
Jacob graduated with an MChem from University of Reading. In his final year project he used spectroelectrochemical techniques to probe the mechanisms in the transformation of CO2 to CO with organometallic catalysts. Moving to the Maldives he then became the Operations Manager for an international food safety consultancy company, Food Safety Asia. He joined the CSCT to return to research and pursue his keen interest in sustainability. Outside of work Jacob enjoys amongst other things mountaineering, English folk and winning ultra-marathons.
