if you are from Indonesia, and interested to join the FRG, then please consider applying for either a Masters’ or a PhD scholarship from the Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education (known as LPDP scholarships).
Deadlines for applications to the LPDP are 15th of April, 15th of July, and the 14th of October. Please contact Professor Faul if you are interested in applying.
If you are interested in applying to join the FRG as post-doc, a call for Newton Fellowships has recently opened. These prestigious fellowships provide support for relocating in the first year of the fellowship, full salary and research expenses.
Please read the Scheme Notes carefully to check if you are eligible to apply before contacting Professor Faul with an outline proposal.
Please note: the University of Bristol’s internal deadline is the 2nd of March!
Sadiyah and Tom, PhD students with the BCFN, are joining the FRG for a three-month project. They will be working with Peter, Liam and Charlie on producing some novel field-effect transistors!
Welcome!
Peter and Dicker both attended the MRS meeting in Boston. Here they are in action at their respective poster sessions … deep in discussion!
Yumeng successfully completed her viva as the final stage of her Masters by Research degree! She will be heading back to China soon … but congratulations are in order before she does! Well done Yumeng!
Members of the FRG (who were in Bristol, and not at the MRS meeting in Boston!), joined in the FRG Christmas celebrations! Excellent cakes were prepared (and enjoyed!), and some fantastic presents were shared! See the photos for more details!
Geri, an honorary FRG group member who still kept close contact with the group (and still published a very nice paper earlier this year), came to say goodbye.
Geri received a prestigious JSPS post-doctoral fellowship, and will be working in the Supermolecules Group, with Prof Arigo and Dr Hill at MANA/NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan for 2 years! Good luck!
Holger Schmalz (from the University of Bayreuth) visited Bristol recently. Carl was one of the local speakers that contributed to the the mini-symposium (with other speakers from the Hall and Manners groups).
Carl gave a great talk on “Functional 3D architectures based on oligo(aniline)s” – well done!
A “Chemistry and Materials Session” was organised (by Charl) to take place on Friday, 6th of November, as part of the HKB Symposium 2015. With an exciting line-up of speakers, and a poster session at the end of the day it was a great opportunity to learn about local and international science!
The event ended on a high note with a speakers dinner held at the M-Shed Industrial Museum at the harbour side in Bristol.
Photographer: Bhagesh Sachania (group photo).
The FRG had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Kazuo Akagi from Kyoto University today. After a beautiful talk about helical poly(acetylene)s, and polymerisations in anisotropic media, the whole group interacted with Prof. Akagi over posters, coffee and pastries!
Kazu then had the chance to catch up with his former PhD supervisor!
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