This bright July marks the graduation of several Faul Research Group members. Congratulations once again to Ben Harker, Talia Pearce, Alastair Chua, and Yuerong Tian on their achievements!
All the best from the group to their next chapters!
Charl had the pleasure of visiting Kazakhstan for the first time – joining the 5th International Symposium on Emerging Materials and Devices, hosted by the Renewable Energy Lab at National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University.
It was a pleasure to visit – not only the honour to be asked to give the opening plenary, but to experience the warmth and hospitality of many colleagues in Astana (including the kind hosting Dr Bakhytzhan Baptayev and Prof. Nurxat Nuraje). In addition, former Masters’ student, Dauren (now doing a PhD in Kazakhstan), travelled from Almaty to join the conference as well!
And, to top it off, Charl had the pleasure to meet with a Bristol alumna, Professor Siti Fairus, from UKM Malaysia. Not only did Siti do her PhD at the School of Chemistry (with the late Prof. Ian Manners), but Charl was her internal examiner for her PhD! What a joy!
Those who were in Chengdu headed to Shanghai, very kindly hosted by Donghua University’s “State Key Laboratory for Functional Polymer Fibers” and Shanghai Jiaotong University’s “Department of Chemistry”. It was not only great to spend time with Bristol Alumni (Yaozu Liao and Wei Lyu at DHU, and Hongjing Dou and Huibin Qiu at SJTU), but also share science and interact with many students!
Thanks also to DHU for generous sponsorship of prizes – with a first prize by Jerry, and a second prize to Liang! Well done!
Several members of the group travelled to China to attend the 8th International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science. It was an opportunity to showcase work from across the group, present, interact – and meet with old friends (including Prof ZHANG Xi, long-time friend and collaborator, and president of Jilin University!).
In addition – Junru won a prize for best poster presentation! Congratulations!
Jerry presented his work on “CO2 conversion using metal-free porous polyimides” at the Eurapean Materials Research Society (E-MRS), a large international conference of over 2000 people bringing together researchers across materials science to sustainable energy with photovoltaics and catalysis to nanomaterials. Great poster, well done!
Glad to share that an experimental paper published in Small, has ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2024:
Congratulations to Jerry, on being voted one of the “Most Engaged Demonstrator” for Year 2 Chemistry lab.
It’s fantastic to see his enthusiasm and support in the lab recognised by the students. Well deserved!
PhD students, Jerry Mintah, Mary Donkor, and Sakshika Raghav recently attended the Henry Royce Institute’s National PhD Conference, with Jerry and Mary giving oral presentations of their work.
A fantastic event to hear from leading voices in the material fields, and to expand professional networks!
Well done to our undergraduate students, Alastair, Ben, Talia, and Yuerong, who recently successfully presented the results of their hard work from the past few months! We celebrated the occasion with some well-earned PIZZA 🍕!
We also took this opportunity to welcome the new PhD student, Haoqi Yu, who just joined the FRG from March!
A joyful moment as the group begins a new chapter together!
At the beginning of Spring this year, we celebrate the graduation of Faul Research Group members Dr John Worth, Dr Safa Al Siyabi, and Dr Ulzhalgas (Ulia) Karatayeva, who recently returned to Bristol from a distance to attend the graduation ceremony!
Warmest congratudations to all of them from the group!
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