Last week, we said farewell to Suman, who is embarking on a Marie Curie Fellowship with Prof. Manuel Orlandi at the University of Padova. Suman achieved the first breakthrough in hypervalent iodine chemistry in our group with the difluoroethylation of heteroatom nucleophiles, resulting in a 1st author paper in Angewandte Chemie. More recently, he laid the groundwork for an exciting follow-up project (watch this space!) Suman will be missed in the lab, and we wish him all the best in Italy!

Kudos to the group for designing a snow globe for him featuring the Carbon Neutral Laboratory, to remember his time in Nottingham by.