Group Members
Caoimhe Venning
PhD Student
2025-Present
Caoimhe graduated with a MSci Hons Degree in Medicinal Chemistry with a year in industry (1st Class) in 2025, when she first joined the Crory group during her Masters year which was spent probing the dynamics of boronate ester exchanges. She now has commenced her PhD in the group as of October 2025, and her research focusses on formulating supramolecular materials with application in bacteria-responsive coatings.
Zara Gamble
MSci Student
2025 - Present
Zara joins the group for her MSci research project, where she will be investigating pH-controlled swellable polymers for drug delivery applications
Ruicheng 'Joe' Zhou
Postdoctoral Researcher
2025
Joe joined the group for a 3-month period, when he led investigation into the antimicrobial effects of polyphenols using a high-throughput photoluminescence technique.
Arwa Alkanzi
Summer Student
2025
Arwa spent time in the group synthesising boronic acid-derivatives for the formulation of dynamic covalent materials, before returning to Trinity College Dublin to complete her final year in Medicinal Chemistry.
Luke Weatherald
Summer Student
2024
Luke spent 2 months fabricating antiadhesive hydrogel materials as a summer student in the Crory group before he returns to University of Lancaster to continue his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry.
Dr Hannah Crory
PI
Hannah completed her PhD in supramolecular synthesis under the expert supervision of Prof. AP de Silva, at Queen's University Belfast. In 2021 she undertook a period of postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Eric Anslyn, working on responsive gels utilising tunable, reversible bonding interactions. Dr Crory then returned to Ireland conducting postdoctoral research into bacteria-resistant polymers at NUI Galway and University College Dublin with Dr Joseph Byrne. In 2024 she returned to Queen's to commence her independent research career. Dr Crory and her research group aims to generate responsive polymers for bacteria signalling and medical device coating applications.
Contact
E-mail: hannah.crory@qub.ac.uk
Telephone QUB CCE : 028 9097 5418
David Keir Building, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast