John Ilupeju is a fourth year DPhil. He completed his MSci degree at the University of Birmingham in 2008 under the supervision of Dr. Richard Grainger investigating homolytic aromatic substitutions for the synthesis of alkaloids buflavine and assoanine. He joined the group to work on the ‘synthesis and new reagents for asymmetric fluorination’ funded by EPSRC. He's a member of Wolfson College.

Oscar Galicia López was born in Mexico City, graduated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with Msc in Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry UNAM under the supervision of Professor David Morales-Morales. He is a member of St. Cross College. He is currently working on silicon and fluorine chemistry and is funded by CONACyT. He enjoys travelling.