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KMS Winners' Symposium

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Posted on Wednesday 7 October 2026

Celebrating outstanding research achievements by our final-year PhD students in the Department of Chemistry
The KMS winners (left to right) Amy Farmer, Dean McGettigan and Lynsday Ives with Professor Pete Edwards of the KMS award committee.

The KMS Prize celebrates outstanding research achievements by final-year PhD students in the Department of Chemistry. This year, our three winners highlighted the breadth of excellent research across the department—spanning molecular measurement technologies, digital data analysis methods, synthesis and catalysis, and atmospheric chemistry.

  • Amy Farmer (Hunt group) gave us a deep dive into unravelling protein structures with 2D-IR spectroscopy and machine learning.

  • Dean McGettigan (Duckett group) described innovative NMR methods for achieving Rhodium-103 NMR polarisation and its application to reaction monitoring.

  • Lyndsay Ives (Carpenter and Nelson groups) showed us how ocean emissions of halogenated, very short-lived substances can be quantified to help put anthropogenic emissions into sharper context.

Notes to editors:

Endowed in 1965, the Kathleen Mary Stott (KMS) Prize celebrates final year PhD students in Chemistry who have demonstrated excellence in scientific research. Prize winners have shown excellence in their research across academic discovery, integration, and application