A large group of researchers have just joined the group! Welcome to Nan (BCFN MSc, co-supervised by Natalie Fey), Xiaoyu (BCFN MSc, co-supervised by Annela Seddon), Christian (BCFN PhD, co-supervised by Jonathan Rossiter), Esther (BCFN PhD, co-supervised by Annela Seddon), Betty (BCFN PhD, co-supervised by Ian Manners), and Özlem (post-doc!).
Welcome to all!
Pete (also known to some as Piotr!) had his viva earlier this week. Prof Ronald Osterbackca (from Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland) was his external examiner, and Dr Annela Seddon (Director of the BCFN, where Pete received his funding from) his internal examiner. Ronald also gave an excellent talk the afternoon before, setting the stage for the viva!
As is evident from the photo the viva went very well! Pete did a great job, and impressed his examiners! Well done Dr Pete!
We had the pleasure of hosting the annual materials chemistry, the Timms Symposium, last week here in Bristol.
Close collaborator and good friend, Prof Xi Zhang from Tsinghua University, was the Timms Lecturer for 2017. He was supported on the day by excellent presentations by Dr Annela Seddon (Director of the BCFN), Prof. Jean-Francois Lutz (Strasbourg), Jess Gwyther (from the Manners group) and Jason Potticary (from the Hall group).
We were also very pleased that Liz Timms, the late Peter Timms wife, could join for the afternoon, and hand over a small award to Prof Zhang!
Charl attended the University of Bristol China graduation (for the third time!). He saw many students from Bristol, as well as three chemistry graduates! Here the three (Chuhui, Hao and Xuechun) are celebrating with Charl and Professor Tim Gallagher, Dean of Science!
More importantly, Joey Liu, who dis his extended project (as part of his MSc in Nanoscience and Functional Nanomaterials) in the Faul group, also graduated!
Well done Joey!
Congrats to Sheue-Lin (who recently completed her MSc with the BCFN, with her research project done in the group)! Her family (and friend!) celebrated with her! Well done Sheue-Lin!
Time flies, and we had our annual Christmas lunch at Charl & Jacqueline’s home! Great food, great company, fantastic “Secret Santa” presents, and some great games!
We also had a Christmas Quiz – with two tasty prizes! What a way to prepare for Christmas!
Esther successfully defended her MSc thesis earlier this week. She did a great job, and both the examiners (Dr George Whittell, as internal, and Dr Louis Adriaenssens from the University of Lincoln) were very impressed with her performance! With the viva behind her, Esther is ready to join the BCFN as PhD student in September.
Of course we celebrated afterwards! Well done Esther!
Professor Rasmita Raval spent the afternoon in Bristol on Friday – as the external examiner for James’ viva! James did a great job, and successfully passed – well done Dr Thomas!
The Faul and Hall groups all joined in and congratulated James afterwards!
Juvaid joined the FRG last week on a short-term 3-month visit from the IIT Madras, India, on an Oxford Instruments scholarship, in conjunction with the BCFN. He will be working with Dr Andy Collins (from the BCFN) on characterising the optoelectronic properties of TANI nanowires.
Welcome Juvaid!
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!
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