Awards at the IPAS New Year function

Jesse Teo took out the inaugural Tanya Monro Presentation Award and Witold Bloch picked up a best paper by an ECR at the IPAS New Year function.

Sumby-Doonan group Xmas party

We had our end-of-year Xmas party on Sunday 21st December. Lots to celebrate this year with some excellent outcomes: PhD completions (Wit, Herbert), conference prizes (Jesse, Jack), and fellowships (AVH - Wit, JSPSs - Chris & Christian). Well done all!

'Chef' Richard preparing the paella - thanks Richard!

Jesse Teo wins award

Jesse Teo won a prize for the best 3rd year Chemistry PhD talk at the 2014 School of Chemistry & Physics Postgraduate Research Symposium. Well done Jesse!

The speakers at the 2014 School of Chemistry & Physics Postgraduate Research Symposium (Jesse - second from right).

Witold Bloch awarded AVH

Former PhD student and post-doc Witold Bloch was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to undertake post-doctoral research with Prof. Guido Clever at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Nature Chemistry paper published

Our new paper that applies X-ray crystallography to the study of inorganic chemical reaction products within the pores of MOFs has been published in Nature Chemistry.

The work enables us to uncover exact structural information about the chemical environment of a metal species within a MOF structure, thereby guiding work developing catalysts or new materials for low energy separations.