{"id":64,"date":"2021-11-15T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/matthewhopkinson\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:29:33","slug":"group-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/matthewhopkinson\/group-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Group Leader<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Matthew N. Hopkinson<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Matt grew up in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and studied chemistry at the University of Oxford. Having completed a Masters project under the supervision of Prof. V\u00e9ronique Gouverneur, he stayed in the group for a PhD, graduating in 2011. During this time, he worked on the development of new reaction methods for organic synthesis, focusing on gold-catalysed coupling reactions and radiofluorination chemistry for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. His PhD work was funded through a CASE award from GlaxoSmithKline and he spent time at their Clinical Imaging Centre (CIC) radiochemistry facility at Hammersmith Hospital in London. In 2012, Matt moved to Germany as a Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Frank Glorius at the WWU M\u00fcnster. His research there was funded by scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and focused on transition metal- and photocatalysis, specialising in methodology development using visible light as an energy source. In 2016, Matt started his independent career as a Junior Professor at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, setting up a research programme centred on the fields of organofluorine chemistry, organocatalysis and photochemistry. In November 2021, Matt moved back to the UK to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

PhD Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Michael Jakob<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alex Haswell<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Haoyue Wang<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alumni<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Newcastle Alumni:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name<\/strong><\/td>Position<\/strong><\/td>Time<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Beth Gibbons<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2025<\/td><\/tr>
Corey Jackson<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2025<\/td><\/tr>
Arushi Garg<\/td>PhD Student<\/td>04\/2020-12\/2024<\/td><\/tr>
Corey Jackson<\/td>Research Intern<\/td>06-08\/2024<\/td><\/tr>
Olivia Clark-Neufville<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2024<\/td><\/tr>
Matthew Shovlin<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2024<\/td><\/tr>
Caitlin Storry<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2023<\/td><\/tr>
Rory Hughes<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2023<\/td><\/tr>
Haoyue Wang<\/td>Master Student (MSc)<\/td>06-08\/2022<\/td><\/tr>
Nils Gerwien<\/td>Visiting Student (Erasmus+)<\/td>05-07\/2022<\/td><\/tr>
Alex Haswell<\/td>Master Student (MChem)<\/td>01-05\/2022<\/td><\/tr>
Will Allewell<\/td>Master Student (MChem) <\/td>01-05\/2022 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FU Berlin Alumni:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name<\/strong><\/td>Position<\/strong><\/td>Time<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Andreas Mavroskoufis<\/td>PhD Student<\/td>10\/2019-11\/2025<\/td><\/tr>
Lilian Maas<\/td>PhD Student<\/td>06\/2020-09\/2024<\/td><\/tr>
Nick Bechler<\/td>Bachelor Student<\/td>04-06\/2023<\/td><\/tr>
Matteo Tironi<\/td>PhD Student<\/td>10\/2019-01\/2023<\/td><\/tr>
Armin Ariamajd<\/td>Student Assistant<\/td>08\/2019-12\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Stefan Dix<\/td>PhD Student<\/td>03\/2017-10\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Marius G\u00f6bel<\/td>Bachelor Student (Lehramt)<\/td>10\/2020-09\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Andr\u00e9 Faria Vieira<\/td>Bachelor Student<\/td>09\/2020-08\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Nils Gerwien<\/td>Master Student<\/td>02-08\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Arielle Rieck<\/td>Master Student<\/td>03\/2020-02\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Nils Gerwien <\/td>Student Assistant<\/td>08\/2019-01\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Sabrina Kleynemeyer<\/td>Bachelor Student<\/td>05-11\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Deniz Meyer<\/td>Research Intern<\/td>07-10\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Kevin Bergemann<\/td>Bachelor Student (Lehramt)<\/td>03-10\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Arielle Rieck <\/td>Research Intern<\/td>10\/2019-02\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Talha Sahin<\/td>Bachelor Student (Lehramt)<\/td>11\/2019-01\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Jonas Schmid<\/td>Research Intern<\/td>07-09\/2019<\/td><\/tr>
Nils Gerwien <\/td>Bachelor Student<\/td>04-05\/2019<\/td><\/tr>
Arush Agrawal<\/td>Master Student<\/td>10\/2018-04\/2019<\/td><\/tr>
Benjamin Schwabe<\/td>Visiting Student<\/td>01-03\/2019<\/td><\/tr>
Anastasia Carrano<\/td>Bachelor Student<\/td>08-09\/2018<\/td><\/tr>
Keerthana Rajes<\/td>Master Student<\/td>03-09\/2018<\/td><\/tr>
Paul Golz<\/td>Research Intern<\/td>01-03\/2018<\/td><\/tr>
Henry Simmons<\/td>Erasmus Visiting Student
(Durham University, UK)<\/td>		10\/2017-02\/2018<\/td><\/tr>
Leonardo Kleebauer<\/td>Research Intern<\/td>08-12\/2017<\/td><\/tr>
Keerthana Rajes <\/td>Research Intern<\/td>03-05\/2017<\/td><\/tr>
Leonardo Kleebauer <\/td>Bachelor Student <\/td>01-03\/2017 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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