Omar Rifaie Graham

🚨 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity – Synthetic Cells & Polymersomes (London) I am looking for outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral candidates to apply with me for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.

If you are interested, feel free to message me or send your CV and a short statement of research interests.

MSCA Fellowships offer: • Competitive salary + mobility allowance • Strong support for career development and training • International and interdisciplinary networking opportunities 📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026 (please get in touch early to prepare a strong application)

🚨 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity – Synthetic Cells & Polymersomes (London) I am looking for outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral candidates to apply with me for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.

Interested in light-mediated RAFT? Check out what the experts recommend in this User Guide by @CyrilleBoyer61, Matthias Hartlieb, @KonkolGroup, @QiaoGreg, @Brent_Sumerlin, with now Dr @MagdaBeres (and me 🙂) in ACS Polymers Au @MacroJrnls_ACS - for free! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Some of our representative work: 🔬 Nature Chem – Synthetic cells for polymerization (nature.com/articles/s4155…) 🧪 Nat Comms – Polymer-based artificial systems (nature.com/articles/s4146…)

In our report @ScienceMagazine (bit.ly/4fpiyEJ), we @aprahamian used a U-tube as a filtration system & showed how a photoswitchable hydrazone-based anion receptor can be applied in the active pumping of KCl against a gradient (video is a simplistic rendering of process)

Our article "Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics" is available online at Advanced Materials! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… Major shout to my co-first author @RJSun13 and all our wonderful collaborators who helped realize this dream!

royalsociety.org/grants/newton-… nature.com/articles/s4155… nature.com/articles/s4146… Sharing the post would be appreciated, thank you!

Please get in touch if you would like to conduct a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship in my group @QMUL. The topic would be either on polymer-based Synthetic Cells or polymerization reactions for disease diagnostics. Details of the scheme and relevant papers below:

The newly launched Fielden Research Group (fieldengroup.net) has two open funded PhD studentships! @UoBChemistry Group members will learn loads, from organic synthesis to microscopy. Please get in touch if you'd like to know more. RT much appreciated! Details below:

Our last paper is out @NatureComms 📢 We used #synbio to create synthetic communities of Yarrowia and Yarrowia-cerevisiae 👯 Cross-feeding controlled population dynamics📈 Division of labour improved #sustainable #bioproduction 🏆 Full article: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Pleased to see this comment nature.com/articles/s4157… published, where @ANBismillah and I discuss our experiences of living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and working in academia. Free to access link here: rdcu.be/dX6Xc @NatRevChem

Polymerisation and depolymerisation chemistry: the second century Faraday Discussion. Call for abstracts rsc.org/events/detail/… #polymers

@FieldenStephen @royalsociety @UoBChemistry Let's hope so! Everyone well and I hope that your family is well too!

@RifaieGrahamLab @royalsociety @UoBChemistry Thanks Omar, you're too kind. I hope you'll be involved in some of the next things! Hope the family is well

Really excited to announce that I've been awarded a @royalsociety Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship to be hosted @UoBChemistry from early next year. Grateful for the opportunity to build a research group that will study complex nanoparticle systems. PhDs to be advertised soon!