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Rate My Professor Sebastian Cosgrove

Keele University

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4.08/20/2025

Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.

5.04/30/2025

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About Sebastian

Dr Sebastian Cosgrove is a Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in the Lennard-Jones School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Keele University, having joined as a Lecturer in November 2020 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in May 2024. He holds the roles of Deputy Programme Director for Careers and Employability in the Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry programmes and Course Director for the Chemistry MRes. Hailing from Bradford in West Yorkshire, Cosgrove obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester, where he spent a year in industry at Syngenta's Jealott’s Hill site and completed a final-year project with Prof David Procter on samarium diiodide reductions. He earned his PhD from the University of Leeds under Prof Steve Marsden, researching metal-free photochemical C-N bond formation. Following this, he was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, collaborating with Prof Nick Turner on combining biocatalysts with precious-metal catalysis and later with Prof Sabine Flitsch. He also worked with Prof Nigel Scrutton in the Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub on continuous flow biocatalysis.

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