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!
Bristol International Student Centre (or better known as BISC) is the home away from home for all international students. BISC is turning 40 this year, and lots of people are helping to raise funds for a building project at the BISC premises.
Kazu helped out at the Gala Fundraising Dinner on Saturday evening (and washed hundreds of dishes!), and Horatio ran the Bristol 10K on Sunday (in the impressive time of 47 minutes!).
Well done both, and thanks for your efforts! Happy Birthday BISC!
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!
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!
Members of the FRG (who were in Bristol, and not at the MRS meeting in Boston!), joined in the FRG Christmas celebrations! Excellent cakes were prepared (and enjoyed!), and some fantastic presents were shared! See the photos for more details!
A “Chemistry and Materials Session” was organised (by Charl) to take place on Friday, 6th of November, as part of the HKB Symposium 2015. With an exciting line-up of speakers, and a poster session at the end of the day it was a great opportunity to learn about local and international science!
The event ended on a high note with a speakers dinner held at the M-Shed Industrial Museum at the harbour side in Bristol.
Photographer: Bhagesh Sachania (group photo).
Alex had his viva on Monday… and did a great job of defending his thesis! With Prof Jan van Esch (Advanced Soft Matter Group, Delft, the Netherlands) as his external examiner, Alex had to ensure that he knew all the details of self-assembly!
Congratulations Alex – well done!
Djen joined the FRG as a new PhD student. He is from the Farscope Robotics CDT, and just starting on his PhD research project, jointly supervised by Prof. Jonathan Rossiter and Charl.
Welcome Djen!
With many new students arriving in Bristol from all over the world, members of the FRG went to BISC to help Chef Charl (and other BISC volunteers) to cook an evening meal!
It was a fun (but busy!) evening, and we managed to serve more than 120 two-course meals to new international students! Well done!
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!
Faul Research Group 