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Dan Congrave grew up in Anglesey, North Wales. He obtained an MChem degree from Bangor University, supervised by Professor Igor Perepichka, winning the Dr. John Roberts Jones cross-subject prize. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from Durham University, supervised by Professor Martin Bryce, working on luminescent all-organic molecules and organometallic complexes. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he first worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Hugo Bronstein’s group and was awarded independent funding through the Herchel Smith Early Career Fellowship in Organic Chemistry in 2020. In 2024, Dan was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to start his research group at Oxford. In 2025, he was appointed as a Research Fellow in Chemistry at St. John’s College and won an ERC Starting Grant.
St. John's College, University of Oxford • Oxford
Research in Chemistry focusing on organic synthesis and photophysical properties.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.