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!
Charl gave an invited lecture at the 21st International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution 2016 (or SIS2016 for short!), held in Jinan, Shandong province, in China (see photo below). Prof. Jingcheng Hao, Head of the Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, was the local host.
The conference had many exciting presentations, including a plenary lecture from the legendary Prof. Toyoko Imae (now in Taiwan), who was one of the first (if not the first) scientist to have imaged worm-like micelles!
The School of Chemistry had the pleasure to host Sebastien Perrier (Warrick) and Stuart James (QUB) at our annual Peter Timms Symposium.
Prof. Karen L. Wooley from Texas A&M University, the Peter Timms Lecturer, gave a fantastic talk! She was then presented with a small award by the late Peter’s wife, Liz Timms.
It was a great afternoon of exciting world-class science … supported by two local speakers, Hongjing Dou and Ben from the FRG!
Kazu is currently in Kyoto, doing some further measurements on some of his new chiral materials. He was awarded a travel grant by the University of Bristol’s International Strategic Fund, so will be doing circularly polarised luminescence measurements for two weeks in the group of Prof Kazuo Akagi!
In the meantime Charl has travelled to Trinity College Dublin (invited by Rachel Evans) to give a talk!
Charl had the pleasure of visiting the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials at Jilin University again. He gave a lecture as part of their State Key Lab lecture series (invited by Professors Junqi Sun and Wenke Zhang), before enjoying a very interesting half-day mini symposium with a number of young faculty.
We look forward to hosting visitors from Changchun in Bristol soon!
Charl visited the College of Chemistry, University of Nankai in Tianjin earlier this week, hosted by Profs. Guan and Zhang. Charl gave a talk (see the photo to see the topic covered!), and enjoyed discussing some of the exciting science from the State Key lab!
Charl is back in Beijing to teach at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. It is, as always, a pleasure to see old friends and enjoy excellent food … and, in addition, enjoy sunny weather and blue skies!
Last week was a busy week, with talks from our undergraduate project students Rachel, Steffan and Nick (and a celebration lunch in Cosmo afterwards!).
In addition, Prof. Julius Vancso (Twente University, the Netherlands) also visited the School of Chemistry. Peter from the FRG gave a great talk as part of the preceding mini-symposium before Prof Vancso’s fascinating talk!
Well done to all from the FRG!
Charl was invited to speak at the 11th Electromaterials Science Conference (this year held at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia).
There is an exciting line-up of speakers, including Prof. Ric Kaner (UCLA) and Prof. Frank Marken (Bath). Prof Maria Forsyth, who chairs this meeting, visited the FRG in July last year.
Peter and Dicker both attended the MRS meeting in Boston. Here they are in action at their respective poster sessions … deep in discussion!
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