School of Chemistry

Professor Graeme Cooke

Dr Dylan Wilkinson

Dylan is currently working on the development of chiraloptical organic dyes as part of a collaboration with Malcolm Kadodwala's group. Previously, Dylan worked on the develoment of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for optoelectronic applications in collaboration with Neil McKeown (Edinburgh) and Ifor Samuel (St Andrews), as well as organic charge transport materials for perovskite solar cells in collaboration with the Docampo Group. Prior to his postdoctoral position, Dylan completed a PhD in the group in 2021, developing organic cathode materials for Lithium and Sodium ion batteries. Dylan completed a BSc Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 2017 which included a research project synthesising bay quinones under the supervision of Dr Goetz Bucher.

Abdul-wasir Shaka

2611476s@student.gla.ac.uk

Abdul-Wasir is a final year PhD student in the Cooke group. He did his undergraduate and masters degrees at Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. He is presently working on making Hole Transport Materials (HTMs) that can self-assemble on perovskite surface acting to passivate them and improve their stability in solar cells. Aside this, he is working on improving the pattern of arrangement of SOT-OH, a derivative of Spiro-OMeTAD made by the group, by incorporating hydrogen bonding groups forcing the compound’s molecules to aggregate in a certain pattern hoping to improve its consistency and film forming ability when spin coated.

Wai Kin Yiu (Cyrus)

2684018y@student.gla.ac.uk

Cyrus is a final year PhD student under joint supervision with Dr Pablo Docampo, researching novel materials in the device fabrication of perovskite solar cells. 

Abarna Sekar

2716528s@student.gla.ac.uk

Abarna is a final year PhD student developing novel self-assemble monolayer materials for solar cell application.

Gregor MacLeod

2317270m@student.gla.ac.uk

Gregor is a third year PhD student developing novel organic polymers as additives and dopants to enhance performance of hole transport materials in perovskite solar cells.