David F. F. Brossault

PhD subject:
"Metal doped silica composites and their use for biological and environmental applications"

Supervisors:
Prof. Alexander Routh (CEB department) & Dr. Ferdia Gallagher (Radiology Department)

PhD Awards:

Scholarship & Sponsorship:
- Messel Travel bursary 2020 (SCI)
- WD Armstrong Scholarship 2017-2021 (Cambridge University)

Academic Background: (France)

2017: MSc in Chemistry from the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier
2017: MSc in Formulation Chemistry from the University of Lille
2014: BSc in Chemistry from the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier

Research interest:

Key publications:

David F.F. Brossault, Thomas M. McCoy, Alexander F. Routh, Self- assembly of TiO2/Fe3O4/SiO2 microbeads: a green approach to produce magnetic photocatalysts, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2021, 584, 779-788 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2020.10.001)
David F.F. Brossault, Alexander F. Routh, Salt-driven assembly of magnetic silica beads with tunable porosity, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2020, 562, 381-390 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2019.12.032)

Teaching:

Lab demonstrator and marker for the Physical Chemistry lab sessions (Part I) (2018-2019)
Marker for the Chemical engineering lab sessions (Part I) (2019-2020)

Research supervision:

Supervision of 3 PartIIB Research projects (6 students) + 1 MPhil project (1) (2018 -2021)

2019 - Present: Outreach Academic Speaker at Queens' College
July 2019: Chemistry tutor - Weizmann Science Summer School 2019

Contact Details