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New group member, Kazuyoshi Watanabe, was welcomed to the group in true British style – with a trip to the pub!
He joins the group as a post-doctoral research fellow after completing his PhD in Kyoto, Japan under Professor Akagi.
Welcome to Bristol and welcome to the FRG!
Congrats to Angel, who passed his viva on Wednesday! Celebrations had a Mexican flavour, as could be expected!
Well done Dr Sanchez Sanchez, who is now working with Dr Nikolay Houbenov in the molecular materials group of Professor Olli Ikkala at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland!
To fit in with busy schedules, this years early Christmas lunch was held at Charl’s home with great food and drink, a quiz and the infamous ‘secret santa pass the parcel’!
The invitation to ‘bring a hat’ was met with a variety of hats from across the world
To celebrate a birthday within the group, Carl used his expertise in 2-photon polymerisation and 3D lithography to produce this 15 micrometer scale birthday cake! The cake was part of Carl and Alex’s birthday celebrations, a much larger scale event!
Too small to be seen with the naked eye, this image was taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Happy birthday Carl and Alex!
Long-standing collaborators, Prof Olli Ikkala and Dr Nikolay Houbenov from the Molecular Materials Group at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland), visited the FRG on Thursday and Friday. In order to welcome them, and all the new arrivals in the Faul and Hall groups, we went to the White Bear!
Olli ended his visit on Friday afternoon with a stimulating presentation in the Centre for NSQI.
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!
After a short 4-week stay, Lexy, and undergraduate from Bristol who received an EPSRC bursary to work in the FRG labs, had her last day on Friday. We enjoyed lunch in BISC‘s garden and said our goodbyes….
… and hopefully she is thinking of us staying behind in Bristol while she is on holiday!
Marion, a French student on summer placement from Lyon, spent 6 weeks in the FRG. Sadly it was her last day on Friday … we all had the chance to say goodbye in the lab…
and then in Brown’s …
Hopefully we will see Marion back in Bristol in the near future!
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