News
2025
Alex presents at BJOC Organic Semiconductor Materials
Alex presented his work at the 2025 Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium – Organic Semiconductor Materials: Challenges and Opportunities in Frankfurt, Germany.
2025
Funding Success for Interdisciplinary Project with Engineering
Alex (Co-PI) has been successful in the 2025 Crucible Seed Fund round to undertake an interdisciplinary research project: Smart, Biodegradable Hydrogel-Organic Semiconductor Composites for Flexible, Visual
Sensing Electronics.
2025
AP38 at Diamond Light Source
Alex has been awarded six shifts of synchrotron experimental beam time for his proposal: Wringing Out POSS-Based Sponges Using Light.
2025
Welcome Furqon and Funding Success!
Furqon Novryan and Alex have been awarded an RSC International Student Research Bursary. Furqon has travelled all the way from Universitas Jambi in Indonesia to undertake a two-month research project.
2025
Alex Presents at MC17
Alex presented his work ‘Supramolecular Benzophenone-Based Photoinitiator for Spatially-Resolved Polymerisation‘ at the 17th International conference on Materials Chemistry (MC17) in Edinburgh, UK. Read more.
2025
Welcome new members!
We’re excited to welcome Graham Wilson and Aneas Lam this summer, where they’ll be undertaking laboratory-based research projects. Fingers crossed for some Glasgow sunshine while they’re here!
2025
University of Glasgow News
Dr Joseph Cameron and Alex’s Sustainable Laboratories Grant was highlighted in the University of Glasgow’s news. Read more.
2025
Sustainable Laboratories Grant Funded
Dr Joseph Cameron (Co-PI, JWSE) and Alex (Co-PI) were successful in securing a grant to investigate: Life Cycle Assessment of Chromatography to Promote Sustainability-Focused Purification Methods. Read more.
2025
Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry
Alex has been admitted as a Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry, a professional association that advances the chemical sciences through research, education, and global community engagement.
2025
Kicking off the new year with a sweet start!
A big thank you to Crumb&Bloom for these custom cookies, adding a touch of celebration (and a much-needed sugar boost) to the lab!
2024
Recognition and Contribution Award
Alex was recognised by the University of Glasgow for his exceptional achievements and contribution towards the University’s goals.
2024
AP36 Synchrotron Scattering Experiment
Alex attends the scattering experiment for a proposal with Prof. Dave Adams: Investigating Light-driven Morphological Dynamics in Soft Materials.
2024
Welcome Amanda and Olivia
Two new BSc Project Students have joined the Loch Group. Amanda will be co-supervised by Prof. Emily Draper, and Olivia will be co-supervised by Prof. Peter Skabara.
2024
UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Alex is awarded a UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship through the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Government Office for Science. Read more.
2024
RAPS 2024
Alex attends the 24th Annual Recent Appointees in Polymer Science (RAPS) Meeting at Durham University, UK.
2024
LEAF Sustainability Silver Award
Alex leads the successful application for the Raphael Laboratory to be LEAF certified.
2024
ECR MASC 2024 – Scotland
Alex attends and is part of the conference organising team for the Early Career Researcher Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Conference at UofG.
2024
ISCM 2024 – Germany
Alex presents at the International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ISCM) in Dresden, Germany.
2024
Hetero-print Workshop
Alex presents on behalf of UofG at the Hetero-print Workshop at the University of Strathclyde to industry, academic, and government representatives.
2023
Symposium
Hetero-print members, including Alex, attended and presented at King’s College, Cambridge, for a two-day conference.
2023
AP36 Funding Success
Prof. Dave Adams and Dr Alex Loch have been awarded nine shifts of experimental time on the I22 instrument at Diamond Light Source.
2023
Welcome David Sutherland
David joins the group as an EPSRC Summer Internship student and will be investigating photoresponsive supramolecular systems.
2023
Recognition and Reward
Alex was recognised by the University of Glasgow for exceptional achievements and contribution to the University.
2022
Project Meeting at Ross Priory
Hetero-print members, including Alex, attended and presented at Ross Priory for a two-day conference.
2022
New LCMS
The Raphael Lab has acquired an Agilent LC-MS. This significant piece of equipment will be used for material characterisation.
2022
Paper selected for 10th Anniversary Themed Collection
Article selected for the Journal of Materials Chemistry C: Dedicated Authors 10th Anniversary collection.
2021
UQ Awards for Excellence Nominee – Innovation
Members of the COPE Sensors Team, inc. Alex, were nominated for the UQ Awards for Excellence in Innovation for their work on prototype development.
2020
Paper Selected as Issue Cover
Alex’s paper was selected for the issue cover: Quenching of poly(dendrimer) fluorescence by nitro-containing analytes provides a novel approach for the rapid and selective detection of explosive vapors.
2020
Hamilton Syringe Grant Winner
Alex was awarded $1000 USD to purchase equipment for teaching and research.
2019
Best Poster Prize
Alex was awarded best poster prize at the Australian Community for Advanced Organic Semiconductors Symposium (AUCAOS) held in Katoomba, New South Wales.
2018
Best PhD Presentation
Alex was awarded best PhD presentation prize at the Australian Community for Advanced Organic Semiconductors Symposium (AUCAOS) held in Hahndorf, South Australia.
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