Natalie Stingelin, from the Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, visited the FRG labs and the BCFN yesterday. She gave an excellent talk on manipulating phase transformations and order of organic semi-conductors in the solid state. It was a pleasure to have her here, and we look forward to continued contact in the future!
As we are entering into the summer grant writing season, I thought it good to highlight an upcoming opportunity to join the FRG. These might not be suitable in all cases to all candidates, so please read carefully:
If you have >10 publications and patents, and are not based in the UK, it might be possible to apply for a prestigious EU Marie Curie Fellowship. There are a number of schemes, including International Incoming Fellowships (for researchers based outside the EU) and Intra-European Fellowships (if you have spent at least the last 18 months within the EU, irrespective of your nationality). Please only contact me if are over the threshold of 10 publications. Internal deadline for submissions of applications the 9th of August 2012, so please contact me as soon as possible if you think you are eligible.
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Carl and Charl ran the Bristol 10k race on Sunday, the 20th of May. They both finished the race under 1h! Here a photo of the two of them – Charl is looking tired and angry, Carl is looking happy and full of energy!
A paper was very recently published from a collaboration with bone biologists and clinicians from Bristol Southmead Hospital’s Avon Orthopaedic Centre. Authors on the paper were Judith Brown (previous PhD student from the Faul Research Group), Jon Knapp (who did his undergraduate research project on this topic), and Charl.
The paper discusses a newly developed method for the functionalisation of Ti (implant) surfaces for enhanced bone cell growth, a new area of activity for the Faul Research Group. Congrats to Judith, Jon, and the other authors.
See the full paper in the open access journal eCells & Materials here.
In the last lecture of Charl’s lecture, he spoke at at the Beijing Institute of Technology’s School of Materials and Engineering (hosted by professors Zhong and Zou), on Wednesday the 16th of May. As this was Charl’s last day in China, it was the perfect end to a very successful and fruitful stay!
Charl’s penultimate presentation of his extended lecture tour of China was giving at the Key Laboratory of Functional Polymers at Nankai University, Tianjin, on Monday the 14th of May. Prof Ying Guan was the perfect host! Here he is talking about Bristol during his presentation. More details about the University of Bristol on the chinese website Weibo.
Charl also enjoyed a lovely boat trip in Tianjin with husband-and-wife team professors Guan and Zhang, and their children Michael and Max!
Charl, with a student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ascended into the clouds over Shanghai, and enjoyed the city from a slightly different (and rather alarming!) perspective … from 250m up!
Charl also took the opportunity to give a talk at the University of Shanghai Science and Technology on Wednesday the 9th of May, invited by Dr. Yaozu Liao. Yaozu spent two years in prof Ric Kaner’s labs at UCLA (where Charl recently visited).
Zhixiang and Charl enjoyed a very interesting visit and scientific discussions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, hosted by prof Yongfeng Zhou. Here a photo with Prof Xinyuan Zhu, Zhixiang, Academician Prof Yan, Charl and Yongfeng, after scientific presentations from Zhixiang and Charl, and just before a delicious lunch!
Charl is currently on a short lecture tour in China, with his first stop at the Harbin Institute of Technology (host – prof. Shaoqin Liu). He also had the chance to enjoy the interesting multi-cultural city of Harbin (with lots of influence from Russia), as well as some rather hungry looking Siberian tigers!
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