Curriculum Vitae
Since April 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Gustavo Fernández, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany 2018 - 2019 Process Chemist at Syngenta, UK 2012 - 2017 PhD in the group of Callum McHugh, University of the West of Scotland, UK. Project on the rational development of turn-on fluorescent sensors for cellular hydrogen peroxide 2010 - 2011 MSc (with Distinction) in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of the West of Scotland, UK 2006 - 2010 BSc in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK Awards and Scolarships
April 2022 WWU Internationalisation Fund for postdoc position at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany June 2018 Member status of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) November 2012 University of the West of Scotland Court Medal for the highest graded student in the course that year Publications
2020 Development of a Neutral Diketopyrrolopyrrole Phosphine Oxide for the Selective Bioimaging of Mitochondria at the Nanomolar Level
T. F. Abelha, G. Morris, S. M. Lima, L. H. C. Andrade, A. J. McLean, C. Alexander, J. Calvo-Castro, C. J. McHugh
Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 3173-3180
2016 Twist and Shout: A Surprising Synergy between Aryl and N-Substituents Defines the Computed Charge Transport Properties in a Series of Crystalline Diketopyrrolopyrroles
J. Calvo-Castro, S. Maczka, C. Thomson, G. Morris, A. R. Kennedy, C. J. McHugh
CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 48, 9382–9390
DOI: 10.1039/C6CE02261H
2016 Fluorine Directed Two-Dimensional Cruciform π–π Stacking in Diketopyrrolopyrroles
J. Calvo-Castro, G. Morris, A. R. Kennedy, C. J. McHugh
Cryst. Growth Des., 2016, 16 ,9 , 5385–5393
2016 Effects of Fluorine Substitution on the Intermolecular Interactions, Energetics, and Packing Behavior of N-Benzyl Substituted Diketopyrrolopyrroles
J. Calvo-Castro, G. Morris, A. R. Kennedy, C. J. McHugh
Cryst. Growth Des., 2016, 16 ,4 , 2371–2384
2016 Intermolecular Interactions and Energetics in the Crystalline π–π Stacks and Associated Model Dimer Systems of Asymmetric Halogenated Diketopyrrolopyrroles
J. Calvo-Castro, M. Warzecha, I. D. H. Oswald, A. R. Kennedy, G. Morris, A. J. McLean, C. J. McHugh
Cryst. Growth Des., 2016, 16 ,3 , 1531–1542