My Activity
Presentations
High-throughput chemical reaction optimization (Invited conference talk)
European Robotics Forum
Apr 2021
Optimization of a mechanistically-complex Stille reaction for agrochemical SAR exploration
(Invited conference talk)
American Chemical Society Fall Meeting
Apr 2021
Networking: Keeping science connected (Invited breakout room host)
Nottingham Celebrating Women in Chemistry
Mar 2021
Careers in chemistry research at Syngenta (Invited conference talk)
e-YCN @ EuChemS Chemistry Congress
Aug 2020
Chemistry and automation (Invited symposium talk)
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium
Feb 2020
Twitter and freelancing for chemists (Invited guest lecture, MoSMed CDT)
Durham University
Jan 2020
Organic Chemistry – but Faster (Invited research seminar)
University of Kent, UK
Oct 2019
Freelancing for chemists (Invited conference talk)
ICIQ PhD Day, Tarragona, Spain
Jun 2019
Digital media for careers in chemistry (Invited conference talk)
Nottingham Women in Chemistry Conference, University of Nottingham, UK
Mar 2019
High-Throughput Reaction Optimization (Invited career talk)
RSC Careers & Networking Event, Burlington House, London, UK
Dec 2018
WHY make unnatural amino acids?
Out Thinkers, London, UK
Feb 2018
Cotton & Wilkinson Student Seminar Series
UIUC, IL, USA
Organized the seminar series and gave four of the talks on the chemistries of the transition metal elements.
Jun–Aug 2016
Law and Narcotics
Oxford University, UK
Oct 2011
Event organization
A list of events I've organized or helped to organize.
OUSS = Oxford University Scientific Society
| Date | Speaker/Title | |
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| Mar 2021 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| Oct 2020 | SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry conference | |
| (SCI YCP) Conference over two afternoons, to bring together experts from industry and academics/students alike, interested in developing or using automation within organic and medicinal chemistry | ||
| Jul 2020 | 2020 Retrosynthesis Competition Winners' Showcase | |
| Virtual webinar from SCI YCP and FCG | ||
| Jul 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Scott Bagley, Pfizer, and Richard Horan, GSK | |
| "Pd-catalysed preparation of cyclic alkenylsulfonyl fluorides: a new motif for sulfur-fluoride exchange"
"Control in process development: Evolution of the manufacturing route to vestipitant" |
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| Jul 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh, & Iustina Slabu, Johnson Matthey | |
| "Modern approaches to reduction reactions"
"Biocatalysed nitro reductions and main group catalysis for hydroboration reactions" |
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| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Kevin Lam, University of Greenwich | |
| "Electrons, cations, and radicals: An electrifying journey" | ||
| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Lars Baerfacker, Bayer Pharmaceuticals | |
| "Discovery of finerenone: An MR antagonist for the treatment of cardiorenal disease" | ||
| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Matthew Burns & Jean-Marc Henry, AstraZeneca | |
| "AZD5718: Route design to manufacture" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Dave Lathbury, Astute Chemical Design | |
| "Early CMC studies in drug development, medicinal chemistry-chemical development interface" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Liza Dunn, Bayer Crop Sciences | |
| "Pesticides are critical for public health" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Vicky Steadman, Eurofins | |
| "Discovery of a potent and orally-bioavailable macrocyclic cyclophilin inhibitor" | ||
| Dec 2019 | 26th SCI Annual Review Meeting | |
| "Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis" | ||
| Sep 2019 | RSC HSG 34th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations & poster session, held at AstraZeneca Macclesfield | ||
| May 2019 | RSC HSG: 24th Grasmere Heterocyclic Symposium | |
| Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers | ||
| Feb 2019 | Dr Suzie Sheehy, Oxford University | Particle physics |
| (OUSS) Particle accelerators: from curiosity-driven research to life-changing technology | ||
| Jan 2019 | Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Don’t process chemists just make things bigger? | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Organic synthesis in the 21st century, and why fish is always served with a slice of lemon | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) The death of planet Earth | ||
| Nov 2018 | Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, the Biofuturist | Biology |
| (OUSS) How biology became the next great software revolution | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust | Psychiatry |
| (OUSS) Developing effective psychological treatments | ||
| Oct 2018 | Prof Richard Barker, New Medicine Partners | Biomedical sciences |
| (OUSS) Bioscience: lost in translation? | ||
| Oct 2018 | Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford University | Economics |
| (OUSS) Prediction in economics and elsewhere | ||
| Oct 2018 | Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Will fusion reactors power space rockets? | ||
| May 2018 | Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University | Biology |
| (OUSS) How light affects our internal body clocks | ||
| May 2018 | Prof Steve Goldup, University of Southampton | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Nanoscale machinery: from molecular machines to molecular asymmetry | ||
| Apr 2018 | Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences | Gerontology |
| (OUSS) The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: gene and cell therapies to cure ageing | ||
| Mar 2018 | Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) Physical eschatology: what can we say about the far future? | ||
| Feb 2018 | Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Humans in space: what’s next? | ||
| Feb 2018 | Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Oxygen tension regulates hepatitis virus replication & pathology | ||
| Feb 2018 | Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal | Science |
| (OUSS) The many defects in how we publish science | ||
| Feb 2018 | TOAD distillery | |
| (OUSS) Field trip | ||
| Jan 2018 | Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca | Biopharmaceutics |
| (OUSS) A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? | ||
| Jan 2018 | Dr Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Recent changes in drug scenarios and cognitive enhancers | ||
| Nov 2017 | Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Juggling: theory and practice | ||
| Oct 2017 | Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Using mathematics to understand the world | ||
| Oct 2017 | Prof Wade Allison, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) Trust, energy, and the environment – nuclear, please, 24/7! | ||
| 2016 | Cotton & Wilkinson student seminar series | Chemistry |
| A series of 18 talks over 9 evenings, on the chemistry of transition metal elements | ||
| May 2013 | Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Cancer Networks | ||
| May 2013 | Prof Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Life in the frozen state | ||
| May 2013 | Dr June McCombie MBE, Nottingham University | Science |
| Women's Lecture: Making the invisible visible | ||
| May 2013 | Prof Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Big bad pharma | ||
| Apr 2013 | Prof Chris Cooper, University of Essex | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) The science behind drugs and doping in sport | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University | Science |
| (OUSS) Unpredictability and change in science and technology | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Gero Miesenböck, Oxford University | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Optogenetics in neuroscience | ||
| Feb 2013 | Gary Taubes (author),
Prof Philip James, World Obesity Federation, Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University |
Biology |
| (OUSS) Sloth, gluttony, or hormones? This house believes that hormones, not calories, make us fat (debate) | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Rob Stockman, Nottingham University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) From chemical weapons to chemotherapy | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Hugh Hunt, Cambridge University | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and spinning things | ||
| Jan 2013 | Neuroskeptic (blogger) | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Getting the brain wrong | ||
| Jan 2013 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) The joy of sects: rewriting the Bible as a scientific textbook | ||
| Jan 2013 | Jessica Richman, uBiome | Genetics |
| (OUSS) uBiome: Sequencing the human microbiome through citizen science | ||
| Nov 2012 | Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Cambridge University | Genetics |
| (OUSS) The dark matter of genetics | ||
| Nov 2012 | Dr Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Reading the body language of engagement | ||
| Nov 2012 | Dr Mark Oxborrow, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Maser (microwave laser) at room temperature for the first time | ||
| Oct 2012 | Lord Ronald Oxburgh, House of Lords | Technology |
| (OUSS) Energy for all – but from where? | ||
| Oct 2012 | Mark Henderson, Wellcome Trust
George Monbiot, The Guardian Tracy Brown, Sense About Science |
Physics |
| (OUSS) The Geek Manifesto (panel discussion) | ||
| Oct 2012 | Prof Ian Fleming, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Short cuts: anecdotes from a research career | ||
| Oct 2012 | Prof Kieran Clarke, Oxford University | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) A new fuel source for a human body | ||
| Jun 2012 | Chemistry at the Garden | Chemistry |
| Oxford Botanic Garden: audio trail and scientific poster session | ||
| Jun 2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ MOSI | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| Jun 2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ Manchester Mela | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| May 2012 | Prof David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs | Pharmacology |
| (OUSS) How the current drug laws hold back science | ||
| May 2012 | Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Confounding colour curiosities: the science of seeing colour | ||
| May 2012 | Prof Marian Dawkins, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Optical flow, collective behaviour, and animal welfare | ||
| May 2012 | Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University | Botany/chemistry |
| (OUSS) The botanic garden: your modern medicine cabinet | ||
| Apr 2012 | Dr Aubrey de Grey, SENS
Prof Colin Blakemore, Oxford University Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University |
Gerontology |
| (OUSS) This house wants to defeat ageing entirely (debate) | ||
| Mar 2012 | Dr Mark Briffa, Plymouth University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Personality – and a bit of aggression – in marine invertebrates | ||
| Mar 2012 | Oxfordshire Science Festival | |
| One-day festival | ||
| Feb 2012 | Prof Kevin Warwick, Reading University | Robotics |
| (OUSS) Human enhancement: a user’s guide | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge University | Biology |
| (OUSS) You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes | ||
| Feb 2012 | Prof Alison Smith, Cambridge University | Bioengineering |
| (OUSS) Algal biofuels: prospects for green (and brown and red) energy | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Susanne Shultz, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Peter Wothers, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Gods, devils, and alcohol: their influence in chemical nomenclature | ||
| Jan 2012 | Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Laboratory | Metrology |
| (OUSS) How do you really know what the temperature is? | ||
| Jan 2012 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) Incest and folk dancing: two things to avoid | ||
| Jan 2012 | Oxford Climate Forum | |
| Two-day conference | ||
| Nov 2011 | Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence | ||
| Nov 2011 | Royal Institution Science Societies' Dinner | |
| Cross-society dinner, with guests of honour Prof Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Roland Jackson, Prof Kevin Warwick, and Prince Edward | ||
| Nov 2011 | Mark Lynas | Science |
| (OUSS) Why scientists should take over the world | ||
| Nov 2011 | Rev Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Fireworks: Principles and Practice | ||
| Oct 2011 | Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Energy harvesting: raiders of the lost amp | ||
| Oct 2011 | Dr Chris Faulkes, QMUL | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective | ||
| Oct 2011 | Dr Andrew Pontzen, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) What is cold dark matter? And is it heating up? | ||
| Mar 2010 | Oxfordshire Science Festival | |
| One-day festival | ||
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Conferences Attended
A list of conferences I've attended, and those I've registered for soon.
= invited speaker,
= organizer
| Conference title | Date | Location |
|---|
| European Robotics Forum | Apr 2021 | Online |
| American Chemical Society Spring Meeting | Apr 2021 | Online |
| UK National Retrosynthesis Competition | Mar 2021 | Online |
| Organic Process Research & Development: |
Dec 2020 | Online |
| SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry | Oct 2020 | Online |
| Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2020 | Aug 2020 | Online |
| Solvents & solvent selection in continuous manufacturing training course: |
Jul 2020 | Online |
| Flow chemistry & continuous processing: Scientific Update | May 2020 | Online |
| Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium | Feb 2020 | Oxford, UK |
| Chemical development & scaleup in the fine chemical & pharmaceutical industries training course: Scientific Update | Jan 2020 | Pfizer, UK |
| RSC HSG January Meeting 2020 | Jan 2020 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting 2019 | Dec 2019 | London, UK |
| UKASF 2019 | Nov 2019 | Glasgow, UK |
| New Synthetic Methods II | Oct 2019 | London, UK |
| RSC HSG Postgraduate Symposium | Sep 2019 | Macclesfield, UK |
| International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2019 | Cambridge, UK |
| ICIQ PhD Day | Jun 2019 | Tarragona, Spain |
| Grasmere Symposium 2019 | May 2019 | Grasmere, UK |
| Nottingham Women in Chemistry | Mar 2019 | Nottingham, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | Jan 2019 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | Dec 2018 | London, UK |
| Challenges in Catalysis VI | Nov 2018 | London, UK |
| Young Chemist in Industry | Nov 2018 | Stevenage, UK |
| BOSS XVI | Jul 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference | Jun 2018 | Oxford, UK |
| RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | Jun 2018 | London, UK |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | Apr 2018 | Bristol, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Predicting Reaction Outcomes | Mar 2018 | Cambridge, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | Jan 2018 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | Dec 2017 | London, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Exploring 3D Space | Nov 2017 | York, UK |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2017 | Oxford, UK |
| Technology Ventures Conference: Impact of AI | Jun 2017 | Cambridge, UK |
| OrgSyn 50 | Feb 2017 | Manchester, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2016 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2015 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | Aug 2015 | Boston, MA, USA |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2015 | Cambridge, UK |
| Page Lectures | Jul 2015 | Huddersfield, UK |
| OMCOS 18 | Jun 2015 | Sitges, Spain |
| RSC North West Organic Division Meeting | May 2015 | Liverpool, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2014 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2013 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | Sep 2013 | Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | Apr 2013 | Bristol, UK |
| ASE Annual Conference | Jan 2012 | Liverpool, UK |
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Media Appearances – Nessa Carson
For articles I've written, click here.
RSC membership campaign – Royal Society of Chemistry
Apr 2020
Your new labmate does 700 reactions in eight days – and it's a robot – Chemistry World
Jul 2020
High-throughput & robots with Nessa Carson – Chemistry Cayk Online Podcast
Jun 2020
Nessa Carson – Chemistry with ROBOTS! – HEL Modern Chemistry podcast
Feb 2020
ROBOTS vs HUMANS with Nessa Carson – The Periodic Bagel podcast
Dec 2019
More teams, more diversity: The Royal Society of Chemistry overhauls its awards – Chemical & Engineering News
Dec 2019
Young UK chemists question what they are worth – Chemical & Engineering News
Dec 2019
Nature Chemistry: Elementary Women – Nature Chem., 2019, 11, 602–604
Jul 2019
C&EN: the Secret Silos of #chemtwitter – Chemical & Engineering News
Aug 2019
Interview: Fluoromodafinil, with Nessa Carson – Cognitive Improvement blog
Aug 2018
Three Monthses – HackSpace
Aug 2018
Pride in STEM city‑wide advertising campaign – Pride in London
Jun 2018
Doctor tweet love – Chemistry World
Dec 2017
25 Chemists you should follow on Twitter – Chemical & Engineering News
Nov 2017
What's the best way to show a new chemical reaction's scope? – Chemical & Engineering News
Sep 2017
Quotable Chemistry – Chemistry World blog
Sep 2015
West Side Stories – Chemistry World
Jul 2014
Transatlantic Tales: Homeward Bound – Nature Chemistry blog
Sep 2012
Transatlantic Tales: School Days – Nature Chemistry blog
Aug 2012
Transatlantic Tales: The PhD Question – Nature Chemistry blog
Jul 2012
Transatlantic Tales: An Introduction – Nature Chemistry blog
Jul 2012
Scientific role model interview – Oxfordshire Science Festival
Feb 2012