
The Oakley Group, 2025

Meagan Oakley
Group Leader & Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Research Fellow
- Previously an NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Manchester
- Postdocs at the University of Minnesota & University of Manitoba
- PhD at the University of Alberta
- Follow @meaganoakley on Bluesky
PhD Students

Lana Francis
PhD student
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PhD co-supervised with Michael Baker
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Lana completed her MChem at Cardiff University with a placement year abroad at the University of Florida. Both projects focused on benchmarking electronic structure theory methods. Her PhD project focuses on modelling X-ray spectra of actinides.

Fathima Thanha Thazhe Namboorikandy
PhD student
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PhD co-supervised with David Mills
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Fathima completed her Masters in Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India. Her master’s project focused on electronic structure studies of beryllium-group 13 heterobimetallic dimetallocenes. Her PhD project focuses on defining the electronic structures of (hetero)metallocene anions-He-MAn.
MChem Students

Pippin
Post-dog
- PhD (pretty happy dog)
- Pippin trained with Dr. Oakley for 4 years and gained expertise in sit, speak, and playing dead.
- Proficient in pip
Group Alumni
Vedaang Parammal (Undergraduate, 2024)
Kholil Rahman (Postgraduate, 2025)
Lin Abhari (MChem, 2025)