Marc joined the Cooper group in 2012 as a post doctoral research associate. He is currently researching the structural properties of crystalline materials assembled with porous organic cage molecules. After graduating with a MChem from the University of Newcastle Marc went onto to obtain a PhD from the University of Leeds in 2012. During his PhD he worked on the synthesis, characterisation and host-guest properties of supramolecular systems under the supervision of Prof. Michaele Hardie and Prof. Malcolm Halcrow.

Trapping virtual pores by crystal retro-engineering (Journal article - 2015) Controlling the Crystallization of Porous Organic Cages: Molecular Analogs of Isoreticular Frameworks Using Shape-Specific Directing Solvents (Journal article - 2014) Separation of rare gases and chiral molecules by selective binding in porous organic cages (Journal article - 2014) Porous Organic Cages for Sulfur Hexafluoride Separation (Journal article - 2016) Acid- and Base-Stable Porous Organic Cages: Shape Persistence and pH Stability via Post-synthetic "Tying" of a Flexible Amine Cage (Journal article - 2014) Reticular synthesis of porous molecular 1D nanotubes and 3D networks A Unified Treatment of the Relationship Between Ligand Substituents and Spin State in a Family of Iron(II) Complexes Periphery-Functionalized Porous Organic Cages Three-dimensional protonic conductivity in porous organic cage solids Dynamic flow synthesis of porous organic cages Hydrogels formed from Fmoc amino acids The effect of solvent choice on the gelation and final hydrogel properties of Fmoc-diphenylalanine Complex thermal expansion properties in a molecular honeycomb lattice Guest control of structure in porous organic cages Hexasulfanyl analogues of cyclotriveratrylene Predicted crystal energy landscapes of porous organic cages