A small party was organised by Dr. Song for all the Chinese students in the SoC. About 30 students attended, including Carl, Zhonghua and Charl, as well as Neil Allen (Graduate School Director) and Nick Norman (Head of School)!
Feli and Alex are currently visiting Tsinghua University, Beijing, to work with students of Prof. Xi Zhang, and enjoyed a weekend away at China’s oldest vineyard, Chateau Changyu.
A number of members from the FRG helped Charl (volunteer head chef at the Bristol International Student Centre, BISC) to prepare meals for 90 people on Saturday!
Fantastic team work … and really nice hair nets! And at the end of the evening we enjoyed some of our own food, and a well-deserved break with the rest of the Bisc team!
Chinwe, who has just finished her thesis and had her viva, is getting ready to leave Bristol and head back to Nigeria. We had the chance to celebrate with her, while saying goodbye at the same time … and of course wishing her all the best in settling in and with the expected growth of her family!
Here some photos from the group office, and from Cosmo … always a good place for lunch!
Dr Rumman Ahmed (former FRG member, and joint student with Charl and Ian Manners) visited Bristol at the end of last week. It was great to see him again, on a short holiday from Germany, where he is now working for BASF Coatings in Muenster! Here’s Rumman, looking seriously cool (as always!).
The annual Bristol Ballon Fiesta, the biggest of its kind in Europe, was held from the 9th – 12th of August. Several members of the FRG attended and enjoyed the spectacular scenes! Enjoy the photos!
James has just arrived in Los Angeles, where he will be spending three weeks in the laboratories of one of the FRG’s collaborators, Prof Ric Kaner. James, as part of the exchange between the BCFN and the CNSI, will be spending as much time as possible in the labs at UCLA, and might occasionally go out to enjoy the sunshine! Here some photo’s to prove it!
Charl spoke at the local Bristol and Bath Science Cafe last night (30th of July). It was a fun evening, explaining self-assembly, types of interactions, energies, shape and function of nanostructured materials at the hand of the simple example of bunches of carrots! The venue was packed, and Charl was questioned for a whole hour after his presentation!
Thanks to Carl (who was in the audience with Angel) for the photos!
The FRG went to the Grain Barge (on the harbourside, Hotwells, looking out over the SS Great Britian) after the usual Monday afternoon group meeting to celebrate the recent anouncement that Charl has been promoted to the position of “Reader in Materials Chemistry”. It was a fantastic sunny afternoon in a great setting – the perfect place to celebrate!
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