With the arrival of the new academic year, lots of new students have joined the Faul Research group! Here our first attempt at a group photo – to be updated soon!
Welcome to undergraduate project students Jade, Julia, James and Henry !
James and Piotr, both BCFN-funded students, presented at the BCFN’s annual student conference. As a senior PhD student in the current BCFN student cohorts, James gave an (excellent!) talk. Piotr presented a poster on his latest results!
A great day with some very exciting science!
Yaozu gave an excellent talk on some of his recent results at the first mini-symposium on the I&M Chemistry section programme for the new academic year! Here Yaozu is thinking hard before answering a question!
He was joined by Jess Gwyther (postdoc from the Manners group), before the main speaker of the day, prof Michael Morris, University of Cork, Ireland.
In this busy time of the year, and many new students arriving in Bristol, the FRG helped out at BISC, a local charity that helps to welcome international students. As in previous years, a team led by “Chef Charl” cooked Welcome Meals for international students. Sadly Angel and Dicker had left by the time this photo was taken:
We broke the record set last year, and prepared and served more than 140 meals on Tuesday evening! Well done!
The first of the new Faul Research Group members have arrived! Esther (from Keele, MRes) and Liam (from Warwick, PhD jointly with Ian Manners) have arrived over the weekend, and are now settling in! Welcome to Bristol!
Yaozu’s paper on the preparation and use of macrocyclic amine-linked oligocarbazole hollow microspheres as heavy metal sorbents has been published online by Macromolecular Rapid Communications!
Congratulations to Yaozu and colleagues!
The Royal Society (RS) have announced a number of schemes that allow for international travel and exchange, and to explore opportunities for building lasting networks, or for bilateral visits to strengthen emerging collaborations. These schemes cover travel, subsistence and a small contribution to research costs. Applicants must be from:
China, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico or Turkey
INTERNAL DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12th of October 2014.
This award is currently available to international researchers that want to strengthen the research and innovation capacity by visiting or sending staff and students to the UK.
This scheme aims to develop science and innovation partnerships that promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries.
Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent research experience and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute, which must span the duration of the project. Applicants should have no more than 15 years of postdoctoral experience. Collaborations should focus on a single project involving overseas-based scientist (“the Applicant”) and UK-based scientist (“the Co-applicant”).
If you wish to apply, please contact Dr Faul as soon as possible.
Charl’s review in Accounts of Chemical Research, entitled “Ionic Self-Assembly for Functional Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials” appeared online!
A great opportunity to provide an overview of Charl’s collaborative efforts over the past decade, and to thank many colleagues who contributed to the far-reaching ionic self-assembly approach!
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