Dr Joy H. Farnaby graduated in 2006 from the University of Sussex with an MChem degree in Chemistry with European Studies (German), which included an Erasmus research year at the Ruhr University Bochum. She remained at Sussex for her DPhil in Organometallic Chemistry with Professor F. Geoffrey N. Cloke, FRS. This was followed by postdoctoral research in the USA, at Yale with Associate Professor Nilay Hazari and at the University of California Irvine with Professor William J. Evans. She returned to the UK in 2012 for a further PDRA position at Edinburgh with Professor Polly L. Arnold. In October 2014 she started at Imperial College London as a Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry, under the mentorship of Professor Nicholas Long.

Catalysis/Sustainability and Applied Inorganics

Her group's research interests are in the bonding, structure and magnetism of the lanthanides and actinides and in the design, development and applications of new materials containing these elements.

P. L. Arnold,* C. J. Stevens,‡ J. H. Farnaby,‡ M. G. Gardiner and J. B. Love* (‡equal contribution) ‘New Chemistry from an Old Reagent: Mono- and Dinuclear Macrocyclic Uranium(III) Complexes from [U(BH4)3(THF)2].’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10218-10221. P. L. Arnold,* J. H. Farnaby, R. C. White, N. Kaltsoyannis,* M.G. Gardiner* and J. B. Love* ‘Switchable π-coordination and C-H metallation in small-cavity macrocyclic thorium and uranium complexes.’ Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 756-765. S. M. Mansell, J. H. Farnaby, A. I. Gemeroth and P. L. Arnold* ‘A Thermally Stable Uranium Dinitrogen Complex with Siloxide Supporting Ligands.’ Organometallics, 2013, 32, 4214-4222. J. Wu, W. Dai, J. H. Farnaby, N. Hazari,* J. J. Le Roy, V. Mereacre, M. Murugesu, A. K. Powell and M. K. Takase ‘Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Iron Complexes with Bidentate NHC Ligands.’. Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 7404-7413. J. H. Farnaby, M. Fang, J. W. Ziller and W. J. Evans* ‘Expanding Yttrium Bis(trimethylsilylamide) Chemistry via the Reaction Chemistry of (N2)2-, (N2)3-, and (NO)2- Complexes.’ Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 11168-11176. J. F. Corbey, J. H. Farnaby, J. E. Bates, J. W. Ziller, F. Furche* and W. J. Evans* ‘Varying the Lewis Base Coordination of the Y2N2 Core in the Reduced Dinitrogen Complexes {[(Me3Si)2N]2(L)Y}2(μ-η2:η2-N2) (L = Benzonitrile, Pyridines, Triphenylphosphine Oxide, and Trimethylamine N-Oxide).’ Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 7867-7874. M. Fang, J. H. Farnaby, J. W. Ziller, J. E. Bates, F. Furche* and W. J. Evans* ‘Isolation of (CO)1- and (CO2)1- Radical Complexes of Rare Earths via Ln(NR2)3/K Reduction and [K2(18- crown-6)2]2+ Oligomerization.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 6064-6067. J. M. Ashley, J. H. Farnaby, N. Hazari,* K. E. Kim, E. D. Luzik Jr., R. J. Meehan, E. B. Meyer, N. D. Schley, T. J. Schmeier and A. N. Tailor. 'Axially Chiral Dimeric Ir and Rh Complexes Bridged by Flexible NHC Ligands.’ Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012, 380, 399-410. Invited Article for Special Edition: Young Investigator Award J. D. Blakemore, M.J. Chalkley, J. H. Farnaby, L. M. Guard, N. Hazari,* C. D. Incarvito, E. D. Luzik Jr. and H. W. Suh ‘New Bidentate Trans-Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for Palladium.’ Organometallics 2011, 30, 1818-1829. J. H. Farnaby, F. G. N. Cloke,* M. P. Coles, J. C. Green* and G. Aitken 'Tris(pyrazolyl)borate half-sandwich complexes of trivalent uranium incorporating the [C8H6{SiiPr3-1,4}2]2- and [C8H4{SiiPr3-1,4}2]2- ligands.’ Compt. Rend. Chimie 2010, 13, 812-820. Invited Article for Special Issue:

‘The Vitality of the Coordination Chemistry of the F-elements.’