Lecturer | St Andrews. Humboldt then Liebig Fellow | Wuerzburg. Postdoc | Imperial. PhD | Cambridge. Avid ☕ Drinker. Opinions my own.
St Andrews, Scotland
Joined October 2012
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🚨🎉I am very proud to share our (@GalliumWu) recent work published in @J_A_C_S , where we use our imine-based photoswitches to drive a transimination reaction energetically uphill🔦⛰️ We are excited to continue exploring this area!😃Check out the paper at doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c03817
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The School of Chemistry is looking to recruit motivated students onto our MSc by Research degree.
Very proud of @GalliumWu for defending her thesis (4th of December)! As the first PhD from the group, she has set a very high standard! Thanks to Frank @wuerthnergroup for the mentorship along the way! 🎉🍻
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On December 4th, 2025 Jiarong Wu @GalliumWu successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Photoswitchable Imines: From Molecular Design to Out-of-Equilibrium Systems". Congratulations and all the best for your future career! 🎉
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Have you ever wondered how types of scientific glassware got their names? This article tells the stories of men like La Marquis de Burette, Justus von Liebig and Jan Wółumétrič.
PDF: immaterialscience.org/s/Glas…
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Proud to be the recipient of the first Nagel Prize in Chemistry ⚗️ 🧪 from @ScienceAcad_swe 🙏 kva.se/nyheter/tva-yngre-kem…
📢Our team will be advertising a number of fully-funded positions in the coming months (new photoswitch-based projects)💡🚨 Applicants from the 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳 are encouraged. More info will be coming soon and advertised on our website imineswitch.com
#photoswitch #imine
So... one thing that was always frustrating was the use of clunky stands, boxes and foil. We like to be able to move the LED and sample around, so we decided to print out own holder for the LED and sample area...
Version 2 is currently in design 😀
A bit late... But we recently bought this guy, he has been useful for a variety of pieces of equipment... And yes, that is a sea view from the lab window of the new lab😁
Check out this Preview Article in @Chem_CP by @stefano_crespi on our Recent Chem paper. A really concise preview, thank you so much! 🥂🙏
doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.202…
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Using an enantiopure ACA to program over time the induction of chirality onto a metal complex. Thanks to all Authors and Reviewers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @SupRaLabRome @olivo_giorgio @S__DI_Stefano
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📰Congratulations to Paulina who has just published her first first author paper from her PhD doi.org/10.1039/D5SC04881H and her #MyFirstChemSci @ChemicalScience looking at coordination sphere interactions driving isomer selectivity in heteroleptic cages with low-symmetry ligands
📢New perspective on light responsive imine-based systems out now in @ChemicalScience with @GalliumWu💡🚨🔦 This is part of the 2025 Leading Investigators Collection, Thank you to the reviewers for input 🙏 #hot #photoswitch #imine imineswitch.com
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC05210F
Some easter eggs are hidden in the video-game inspired TOC, relating to our groups upcoming move to @StAndrewsChem
📢 🎉🎊 Really honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @ERC_Research StG for our project (HeliOS)💡🌞This project will be looking at out-of-equilibrium helical structures... more soon... (big thanks to those who helped along the way🙏) imineswitch.com #ERCStG
Congrats to @GalliumWu on this amazing achievement 😀🎉🍻 there was tough competition indeed!
Thrilled that I won the CGCA young researchers award this year on the 37th annual conference 🤗 it was a great honor to present my PhD work to the community, and many thanks to everyone for inspiring discussions 🥰 #CGCA
📢Very excited to announce that our team will be moving to @StAndrewsChem 🏴 later this month. I am so very grateful to @wuerthnergroup 🇩🇪for support over the last 3-years and stoked for our teams future! Check out an updated website at imineswitch.com 🚨🔦💡
I couldn't have asked for a better start-up or support than that offered by the Institute for Organic Chemistry in Würzburg🇩🇪 I look forward to maintaining close ties to Würzburg and completing the habilitation.
Equally, I would like to extend my thanks to the School of Chemistry at St Andrews for all of the organisational support, it's not easy to bring a team and a bunch of chemicals across countries! A special thanks to @ADS_StAndrews and his team for logistical help😀🙏