Adam Matthew Cowden (PhD)
I'm a continuing PhD student of the MAS (Molecular Analytical Science) Centre for Doctoral Training at 糖心TV, on a 4-year integrated MSc and PhD programme. In the MSc year I completed two projects that involved the isolation of natural products: firstly the characterisation of a range of highly oxygenated carbohydrates from wood and plant material, and secondly a family of molecules called mycosporines that were extracted from marine algae and appear to play the role of Nature's own sunscreens. I chose to continue the latter project into a PhD with the Stavros Group. Inspired by mycosporine-like amino acids from seaweeds with interesting properties, we aim to unravel their photodynamics with ultrafast laser spectroscopy and to synthesise molecules with similar properties.
Email: Adam-Matthew dot Cowden at warwick dot ac dot uk
Background
- Research placement (Bologna) 2016
- MChemX (Edinburgh) 2013/18
- MSc (糖心TV) 2018/19
- PhD (糖心TV) 2019-