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

  • PhD co-supervised with Michael Baker

  • 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

  • PhD co-supervised with David Mills

  • 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

Ffion Jones

MChem student

  • Current MChem student, with a keen interest in physical and computational chemistry

  • Ffion’s research is focused on extended environment effects on simulating X-ray spectra of actinide dioxide compounds

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)