My Activity
Presentations
Chemistry and automation (Invited conference 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 conference 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 | Topic |
|---|
| 12/2019 | 26th SCI Annual Review Meeting | |
| "Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis" | ||
| 09/2019 | RSC HSG 34th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations & poster session, held at AstraZeneca Macclesfield | ||
| 05/2019 | RSC HSG: 24th Grasmere Heterocyclic Symposium | |
| Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers | ||
| 02/2019 | Dr Suzie Sheehy, Oxford University | Particle physics |
| (OUSS) Particle accelerators: from curiosity-driven research to life-changing technology | ||
| 01/2019 | Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Don’t process chemists just make things bigger? | ||
| 11/2018 | Prof Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Organic synthesis in the 21st century, and why fish is always served with a slice of lemon | ||
| 11/2018 | Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) The death of planet Earth | ||
| 11/2018 | Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, the Biofuturist | Biology |
| (OUSS) How biology became the next great software revolution | ||
| 11/2018 | Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust | Psychiatry |
| (OUSS) Developing effective psychological treatments | ||
| 10/2018 | Prof Richard Barker, New Medicine Partners | Biomedical sciences |
| (OUSS) Bioscience: lost in translation? | ||
| 10/2018 | Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford University | Economics |
| (OUSS) Prediction in economics and elsewhere | ||
| 10/2018 | Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Will fusion reactors power space rockets? | ||
| 05/2018 | Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University | Biology |
| (OUSS) How light affects our internal body clocks | ||
| 05/2018 | Prof Steve Goldup, University of Southampton | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Nanoscale machinery: from molecular machines to molecular asymmetry | ||
| 04/2018 | Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences | Gerontology |
| (OUSS) The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: gene and cell therapies to cure ageing | ||
| 03/2018 | Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) Physical eschatology: what can we say about the far future? | ||
| 02/2018 | Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Humans in space: what’s next? | ||
| 02/2018 | Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Oxygen tension regulates hepatitis virus replication & pathology | ||
| 02/2018 | Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal | Science |
| (OUSS) The many defects in how we publish science | ||
| 02/2018 | TOAD distillery | |
| (OUSS) Field trip | ||
| 01/2018 | Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca | Biopharmaceutics |
| (OUSS) A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? | ||
| 01/2018 | Dr Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Recent changes in drug scenarios and cognitive enhancers | ||
| 11/2017 | Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Juggling: theory and practice | ||
| 10/2017 | Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Using mathematics to understand the world | ||
| 10/2017 | 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 | ||
| 05/2013 | Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Cancer Networks | ||
| 05/2013 | Prof Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Life in the frozen state | ||
| 05/2013 | Dr June McCombie MBE, Nottingham University | Science |
| Women's Lecture: Making the invisible visible | ||
| 05/2013 | Prof Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Big bad pharma | ||
| 04/2013 | Prof Chris Cooper, University of Essex | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) The science behind drugs and doping in sport | ||
| 02/2013 | Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University | Science |
| (OUSS) Unpredictability and change in science and technology | ||
| 02/2013 | Prof Gero Miesenböck, Oxford University | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Optogenetics in neuroscience | ||
| 02/2013 | 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) | ||
| 02/2013 | Prof Rob Stockman, Nottingham University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) From chemical weapons to chemotherapy | ||
| 02/2013 | Prof Hugh Hunt, Cambridge University | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and spinning things | ||
| 01/2013 | Neuroskeptic (blogger) | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Getting the brain wrong | ||
| 01/2013 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) The joy of sects: rewriting the Bible as a scientific textbook | ||
| 01/2013 | Jessica Richman, uBiome | Genetics |
| (OUSS) uBiome: Sequencing the human microbiome through citizen science | ||
| 11/2012 | Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Cambridge University | Genetics |
| (OUSS) The dark matter of genetics | ||
| 11/2012 | Dr Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Reading the body language of engagement | ||
| 11/2012 | Dr Mark Oxborrow, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Maser (microwave laser) at room temperature for the first time | ||
| 10/2012 | Lord Ronald Oxburgh, House of Lords | Technology |
| (OUSS) Energy for all – but from where? | ||
| 10/2012 | Mark Henderson, Wellcome Trust
George Monbiot, The Guardian Tracy Brown, Sense About Science |
Physics |
| (OUSS) The Geek Manifesto (panel discussion) | ||
| 10/2012 | Prof Ian Fleming, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Short cuts: anecdotes from a research career | ||
| 10/2012 | Prof Kieran Clarke, Oxford University | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) A new fuel source for a human body | ||
| 06/2012 | Chemistry at the Garden | Chemistry |
| Oxford Botanic Garden: audio trail and scientific poster session | ||
| 06/2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ MOSI | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| 06/2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ Manchester Mela | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| 05/2012 | Prof David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs | Pharmacology |
| (OUSS) How the current drug laws hold back science | ||
| 05/2012 | Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Confounding colour curiosities: the science of seeing colour | ||
| 05/2012 | Prof Marian Dawkins, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Optical flow, collective behaviour, and animal welfare | ||
| 05/2012 | Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University | Botany/chemistry |
| (OUSS) The botanic garden: your modern medicine cabinet | ||
| 04/2012 | 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) | ||
| 03/2012 | Dr Mark Briffa, Plymouth University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Personality – and a bit of aggression – in marine invertebrates | ||
| 03/2012 | Oxfordshire Science Festival | |
| One-day festival | ||
| 02/2012 | Prof Kevin Warwick, Reading University | Robotics |
| (OUSS) Human enhancement: a user’s guide | ||
| 02/2012 | Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge University | Biology |
| (OUSS) You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes | ||
| 02/2012 | Prof Alison Smith, Cambridge University | Bioengineering |
| (OUSS) Algal biofuels: prospects for green (and brown and red) energy | ||
| 02/2012 | Dr Susanne Shultz, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question | ||
| 02/2012 | Dr Peter Wothers, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Gods, devils, and alcohol: their influence in chemical nomenclature | ||
| 01/2012 | Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Laboratory | Metrology |
| (OUSS) How do you really know what the temperature is? | ||
| 01/2012 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) Incest and folk dancing: two things to avoid | ||
| 01/2012 | Oxford Climate Forum | |
| Two-day conference | ||
| 11/2011 | Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence | ||
| 11/2011 | 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 | ||
| 11/2011 | Mark Lynas | Science |
| (OUSS) Why scientists should take over the world | ||
| 11/2011 | Rev Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Fireworks: Principles and Practice | ||
| 10/2011 | Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Energy harvesting: raiders of the lost amp | ||
| 10/2011 | Dr Chris Faulkes, QMUL | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective | ||
| 10/2011 | Dr Andrew Pontzen, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) What is cold dark matter? And is it heating up? | ||
| 03/2010 | 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 |
|---|
| Dial-A-Molecule AI for Reaction Outcome & Synthetic Route Prediction | 03/2020 | Gloucestershire, UK |
| Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium | 02/2020 | Oxford, UK |
| RSC HSG January Meeting 2020 | 01/2020 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting 2019 | 12/2019 | London, UK |
| UKASF 2019 | 11/2019 | Glasgow, UK |
| New Synthetic Methods II | 10/2019 | London, UK |
| RSC HSG Postgraduate Symposium | 09/2019 | Macclesfield, UK |
| International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | 07/2019 | Cambridge, UK |
| ICIQ PhD Day | 06/2019 | Tarragona, Spain |
| Grasmere Symposium 2019 | 05/2019 | Grasmere, UK |
| Nottingham Women in Chemistry | 03/2019 | Nottingham, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | 01/2019 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | 12/2018 | London, UK |
| Challenges in Catalysis VI | 11/2018 | London, UK |
| Young Chemist in Industry | 11/2018 | Stevenage, UK |
| BOSS XVI | 07/2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference | 06/2018 | Oxford, UK |
| RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | 06/2018 | London, UK |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | 04/2018 | Bristol, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Predicting Reaction Outcomes | 03/2018 | Cambridge, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | 01/2018 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | 12/2017 | London, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Exploring 3D Space | 11/2017 | York, UK |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | 07/2017 | Oxford, UK |
| Technology Ventures Conference: Impact of AI | 06/2017 | Cambridge, UK |
| OrgSyn 50 | 02/2017 | Manchester, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | 11/2016 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | 11/2015 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | 08/2015 | Boston, MA, USA |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | 07/2015 | Cambridge, UK |
| Page Lectures | 07/2015 | Huddersfield, UK |
| OMCOS 18 | 06/2015 | Sitges, Spain |
| RSC North West Organic Division Meeting | 05/2015 | Liverpool, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | 11/2014 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | 11/2013 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | 09/2013 | Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | 04/2013 | Bristol, UK |
| ASE Annual Conference | 01/2012 | Liverpool, UK |
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Media Appearances - Nessa Carson
For articles I've written, click here.
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
Quotable Chemistry - Chemistry World blog
Sep 2015
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