Dr Patrick Doheny Wins the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists 2024
Congratulations to Dr Patrick Doheny, from the University of Birmingham, for winning the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists 2024.
Dr Patrick Doheny obtained his BSc (Hons. I) in 2015 followed by a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Deanna D’Alessandro and Professor Cameron Kepert at the University of Sydney. His PhD focused on the fundamental characterization of electroactive Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) materials, with a particular focus on frameworks exhibiting intervalence charge transfer and spin crossover properties.
After his PhD, Dr Doheny worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for Dr Paul Saines at the University of Kent (from 2020-2023). During this time, he investigated the development of magnetic MOF materials with low dimensional magnetism and magnetocaloric properties for low temperature magnetic refrigeration applications.
Continuing with his successful career, in 2023 Dr Doheny joined the group of Dr Hamish H-M Yeung, where he is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on an EPSRC New Investigators grant. His current research focuses on characterizing the precursors to MOF formation in the prenucleation state using in situ synchrotron techniques such as Pair Distribution Function (PDF) and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) methods.
“It is a very great honour for my work to be recognized with the award of this prize alongside so many inspiring past prize winners. I have been very fortunate to work with and learn from many excellent scientists over the course of my career thus far and hope to continue to do so in the future.” Dr Patrick Doheny.
Dr Patrick Doheny presented his Prize lecture on Wednesday 27th March during the Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG) Early Career Prize Lectures session at the BCA Spring Meeting 2024.
We will be presenting at the BCA meeting in Leeds too, with talks on a variety of topics ranging from the challenges encountered in our Seventh CSP Blind Test, our new Aromatics Analyser 2 tools, and how the CSD can support and enrich the symmetry learning process. Follow the link to read the full abstracts.
The CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists
The CCDC Prize was created by the CCDC and the Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG) of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) in 2000 with the aim to ‘inspire and recognize excellence in crystallographic research coming from early career scientists in the UK’. The prize is awarded for original research in the field of chemical crystallography or the application of crystallographic information to structural chemistry, including advances in instrumental, experimental, theoretical or computational techniques that contribute to this field. The details of the CCDC Prize rules can be found on the CCG website.
We wish all the best to Dr Patrick Doheny and to all the young scientists that share our structural science passion.
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