As a final reminder of the very successful BCFN trip to China, here a group photo of our very successful 1st Jilin-Bristol Joint Symposium, held in Changchun! We look forward to hosting our colleagues from China in Bristol in the near future!
It was a sad occasion when we said goodbye to Yaozu, who is about to head back to China. Hard to believe that the two years have passed so quickly! We said goodbye in true FRG style … by having a meal at Cosmo!
We also took this opportunity to say goodbye to Irrum (who spent 6 very productive months in the FRG) and Eugenie (who spent 6 weeks in the FRG)!
We hope to see all of you back soon again, and look forward to continued contact and collaborations!
Bristol is a great city to live in … and if you are curious to experience a bit of Bristol (before visiting!), then follow one of these links and be welcomed to Bristol (on Vimeo or Youtube, thanks to the efforts of Jamie Brightmore)! Enjoy!
Not only did we celebrate Pete‘s birthday (congrats!), but the final year PhD students also gave talks within the School of Chemistry last week.
Ben, Carl and James all gave excellent talks. At the wine reception at the end of the day Professor Paul Pringle (Head of the Inorganic and Materials Chemistry section) announced that Ben was one of two prizewinners for the day! Well done Ben!
Please have a look at the website and register (free!) to join the FunMat 2015 symposium in Prague at the end of July!
Exciting line-up of speakers, opportunity to present your science, and a beautiful place to visit! Sign up!
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.
Faul Research Group 