Arne Ficks completed his PhD in the School of Chemistry working with Dr Lee J. Higham. He studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he obtained his Diplom (MSc equivalent degree) in June 2009 under the supervision of Prof Franc Meyer. He joined the research group of Dr Lee J. Higham at Newcastle University in October 2009 to work on the applications of primary phosphines in asymmetric catalysis.
The results of his research have been published in a number of scientific journals (see below — the RSC journal articles are available as open access) and Arne presented his results at a number of international conferences, including the American Chemical Society’s Anaheim conference, USA.