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I am part of the Centre of Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemistry♻.  This means that my project is focused on doing chemistry in more environmentally friendly ways.

The continuous flow part is similar to how you can turn your tap on at home and instantly get hot water, as opposed to boiling a kettle – but which medicines. This means that medicines could be made very energy efficiency and in larger quantities (bath vs. cup of tea).

Photochemistry is the use of light to make chemicals instead of expensive metals and lots of heat. The use of light means that I can make medicines which are, otherwise, very hard to make. This is also quite an environmentally friendly way to make chemicals.

The non-invasive analysis methods is a way of checking if a reaction is completed without having to take a sample. Think cooking rice and being able to know exactly when its done just by looking at it – but with medicines!

In the last three weeks alone, I have been doing lots of different things. I have been doing Infra Red, UV/vis spectroscopy,  organic synthesis, chromatography, building various different sizes and types of reactors, writing computer programmes, processing data, having meetings, participating in public engagement, learning how to use new software, reading, planning research and giving presentations.

As you can see I do a wide variety of things so I don’t suppose there ever is a typical day.