Chemistry at Swansea University offers an excellent environment for learning and research at our purpose-built laboratories which draw on expertise from our Engineering, Medical and Science departments. The newly opened (2017) Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Swansea University has a steadily growing number of staff, and a large number of national and international Post-Docs, PhD, Master and bachelor students. The Department is composed of six between associate and full professors and ten between lecturers and senior lecturers. The institution has excellent, purpose-built modern laboratories with access to a wide range of instrumentation, ideal for organic synthesis and the developing of the proposed research. Suitable office space is available for the project with computer and IT support. These research efforts are supported by a strong and tight collaboration with the College of Engineering, which ranked second in the UK in research environment.
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I'm Mariolino Carta. I graduated in Chemistry in Italy in 2004 with a master project based on the synthesis of novel Peptide Nucleic Acids monomers (PNAs). I then moved to Cardiff University to obtain a PhD in Organic Material Chemistry in 2009 with a thesis project based on the synthesis and characterisation of novel monomers for the synthesis of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs) under the supervision of Prof. Neil B. McKeown. After the PhD I worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate within the same group and then I moved to the University of Edinburgh in January 2014 until 2017. In October 2017 I was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at Swansea University at the brand new Department of Chemistry, which is my current position and where I do my research. In March 2020 have been promoted Senior Lecturer. In 2017 I have successfully finished the Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice (PgCERT) at the University of Edinburgh for which I have become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). I am also a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and a STEM Ambassador.
C. Grazia Bezzu, in February 2024 joined the Carta group in Swansea University as a research officer to work on the DAM4CO₂ project. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry in 2009 from Cardiff University under the supervision of Prof. Neil McKeown. Thereafter, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the McKeown group, where she investigated novel microporous organic materials. In 2018 she joined the Bonifazi group at Cardiff University, where she worked at the preparation and supramolecular assembly of chalcogen containing aromatic molecules.