Becky Greenaway

🚨 Next Generation of AI Chemists Programme – Applications Open
Supporting students from backgrounds under-represented in the chemistry sector.

📍 Imperial College London
📅 6-7 July 2026

- Hands-on training, career insights + follow-up
- Travel & accommodation covered

Apply here➡️ buff.ly/MLfs9Zg

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📣 Announcement 📣

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 🏆, given in the memory of John Fossey, goes to both Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg).

Congratulations both!

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This is the level of content that I need (and miss from the old place) 👌

Come and join us at Birmingham making cages for catalysis. We have a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home fees only) to start in 2026. Very happy to discuss this project, which can be tailored to suit a candidate's interests. Please get in touch if you are interested #chemsky

PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

📣 PhD position now open for Oct 2026 start based at @imperialchemistry.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/PhDFDF. An interdisciplinary project combining experimental
& computational materials discovery in a collaborative Royal Society-funded team. Co-supervised by @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social.

Organic Cage Rotaxanes The synthesis of robust, amine-based organic cages with a controllable number of alkyne functional groups is described. Subsequent post-synthetic modification enabled installation of a defined number...

You can check out some of Zarik's work on cage rotaxanes here: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

📸 What a brilliant day at the MSc in Digital Chemistry and MRes in Advanced Molecular Synthesis Symposium @imperialchemistry.bsky.social !
Thank you to all our students, staff, and guests for making today such a success. 💥🔬
#ImperialChemistry #FutureOfScience #Symposium2025

Well, since it's now official, happy to say I've been promoted to Reader (still Associate Professor while Imperial changes systems) - this is all due to the amazing team of researchers I get to work with, my collaborators and colleagues, so thank you to those who know who they are on here!!!

Professor Kim Jelfs awarded prestigious Faraday Discovery Fellowship | Imperial News | Imperial College London Imperial Chemistry celebrates Professor Kim Jelfs’ Faraday Fellowship for pioneering research in chemistry, computation and artificial intelligence.

Congratulations to @jelfschem.bsky.social on her @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship! 🎉

Her work will bridge computation and experiment to unlock synthesisable materials using #AI and automation.

Read more ➡️

Education Initiative Case Study: Imperial College London - Opentrons As a part of the Opentrons for Education initiative, we’re speaking with educators like Becky Greenaway, Annabel Basford, and Sean Gurung to take an in-depth

It was lovely to discuss what we've been up to in relation to using the Opentrons OT-2 platform to teach automation in both our undergraduate & postgraduate chemistry labs and to have it featured as an Education Initiative Case Study on their website - you can read more here:

Big congratulations to Ruiqing 🎉 #proudsupervisor

Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

Alchemy Frontier Fund 2025 now open (aichemy.ac.uk/aichemy-fron...). Apply for 2-year projects of up to £1.25m to advance the frontiers of AI for chemistry. Deadline = Sept 12th 2025. Webinar to launch the fund on June 18th. For information, email: funding@aichemy.ac.uk @ukri.org #EPSRC #AI

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on the potential for artificial intelligence across chemistry From accelerating simulations and exploring chemical space, to experimental planning and integrating automation within experimental labs, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the landscape of chem...

📢 Recently published in Chemical Society Reviews (RSC)

AIchemy Co-Director Kim Jelfs @jelfschem.bsky.social and Imperial Co-Investigators share cross-disciplinary perspectives on AI’s role in chemistry.
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Read here ➡️ : buff.ly/Ni67NZJ

#AIforChemistry #ChemSci #AIchemy #AcademicPublishing

UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

If you want to know what’s happening in universities with redundancies and job loss, why, and the impacts it’s having, this is a good summary: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

For the avoidance of any doubt: trans women are women. Trans men are men. Anyone presuming to know more about someone’s lived experience than they do is in an unjustifiable position.

It's just sickening isn't it 😞

Laboratory Technician at Imperial College London Recruiting now: Laboratory Technician on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We are looking for someone to join us as a part-time laboratory technician at the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) facility, based in Chemistry at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) in White City, to provide technical assistance across ROAR and @aichemyhub.bsky.social

The Emptiness Machine by Linkin Park (or most of that album tbf)

Ooof 😱 hope you are recovering OK!

Very happy to share that this work has been accepted in Angew Chem & appreciate the highlight, but as good as my group are, I'm not sure even they could have done all of this & written it up in the 2 weeks between your paper & our preprint, instead this is the result of ~2 years of collaboration 😉

📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Had an excellent visit with the ATLAS and DIGIBAT teams at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Great to see how automation is changing Chemistry for both teams!

Thanks to the teams at ROAR at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and Solve Chemistry for a great day of discussing HTE and automation chemistry! Thanks specifically to Dr Eldosoky for organizing and @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social for the great insights! @solvationsci.bsky.social

What a day!🤖

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our conference on Monday. Your energy, insights, and engagement made it a truly memorable event!

A special shoutout to our incredible speakers for sharing their knowledge and sparking such great discussions.

Stay tuned for more highlights⬇️

Organic Cage Rotaxanes Organic cages are a robust class of molecular hosts with a myriad of applications in materials science. Despite this, there has been a paucity of explorations into the modification of their properties...

And today, @zarikyusaf.bsky.social work on beautiful organic cage rotaxanes went online too, in collaboration with @lewischemistry.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Predicting Solubility and Size-Exclusivity Towards the Rational Design of Porous Liquid Solutions Porous liquids are a sub-class of porous materials that combine permanent porosity, typically associated with solids, with the fluidity and fast mass-transfer capabilities of liquids, making them idea...

Austin Mroz and @begleston.bsky.social and co looked at Predicting Solubility and Size-Exclusivity Towards the Rational Design of Porous Liquid Solutions in collaboration with James Sherwood at York chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Development of an Automated Workflow for Screening the Assembly and Host-Guest Behaviour of Metal-Organic Cages towards Accelerated Discovery Metal-organic cages (MOCs) are a class of self-assembled materials with promising applications in chemical purifications, sensing, and catalysis. Their potential is, however, hampered by challenges in...

@annabelbasford.bsky.social and Aaron Hero Bernardino and co have a nice automated high-throughput workflow out for automating the assembly and host:guess behaviour of MOCs in collaboration with Imogen Riddell at Manchester and Jonathan Nitschke at Cambridge chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

I have also just been reminded by the group at the pub that I am behind on my social media, so here goes a preprint fest: