Dr Michela Simone

Biography

I joined the Discipline of Chemistry at the University of Newcastle as Lecturer in January 2014. I received her BSc/Masters degree from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK, and went on to be awarded a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor George Fleet in 2006. My research interests lie under the broad umbrella of medicinal chemistry with a glycobiological spin! I'm interested in both the fundamental and the applied levels. Research spans the synthesis and evaluation of novel classes of glycosidase inhibitors from carbohydrate starting materials, to molecular recognition and supramolecular chemistry, to synthetic methodology development. Recently I have also expanded into the area of bioinorganic chemistry primarily as relating to cancer research, application of ionic liquids to biological systems, and the field of renewable energy from chemical manipulations of biomass.

Research Interest

Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry , Biologically Active Molecules