Making Light Work Symposium, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge,
UK 2010
42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow 2009
International Carbene Conference, Mexico 2009
2nd EuChemS, Torino, 2008
Novel Structural and Functional Materials and Methods for their
Characterisation Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine 2006
PACIFICHEM Hawaii, USA 2005
IV International Razuvaev Lectures, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2005
Royal Society of Chemistry Coordination Chemistry Discussion Group, University of Cardiff, UK, 2005.
Younger European Chemists Conference. Torino, Italy 2004.
Books
Co-editor Special Periodical Reports. Spectroscopic Properties of
Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds: Materials and Applications
Recent Grants
Chiral imidazolium salts for organo- and metal-mediated catalysis, EPSRC, £208,642. 2005-2008.
Microwave-induced plasma promoted dielectric heating: metrology and application to the photocatalytic activation of water (in collaboration with Prof Rik Brydson, University of Leeds), EPSRC, £345,974 to York, £264,200 to Leeds. 2007-2010.
Photocatalysis with organometallics complexes, SASOL, £40,000. 2008-2011.
New macroporous materials for photocatalytic and photonic applications, White Rose Consortium Centre for Low Carbon Futures, £ 51,670. 2010-2013.