Vicky De Groof
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A week in Japan: microbial ecology research in water engineering and natural water systems
Vicky de Groof is a final year PhD student at the CSCT and a FIRE Fellow who specialises in water and bio-waste research. In November 2019, she attended the 8th International Specialist Microbial Engineering and Water Engineering (MEWE) conference, an...
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How organising the CSCT / US Dept of Energy Symposium was my most rewarding reality check
Ed Jones is an MRes student in Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the CSCT. Over the first few months of 2019, Ed was involved in organising an international symposium along with other fellow students. Having dipped his toes into the waters...
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Attending a Colloquium: the Power of Timing, Networking, and Joining a Network.
At the end of January, I headed to Manchester for the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Network Research Colloquium, ‘Beyond Biogas’. Thanks to some good timing, plenty of opportunities for networking, and being a member of a network I had an amazing...
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The perks of attending small conferences
Sure, a conference on the other side of the world with thousands of participants from academia and industry sounds impressive. However, do not underestimate the perks of smaller conferences! In July 2018, I had the opportunity to attend the BBSRC...
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11 Networking Tips from a Young Water Professional
I have heard the advice “You have to build a network to progress in your career” a countless number of times, but how do you network? Back in April, I attended the IWA Young Water Professional (YWP) UK Conference at...
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Taking Marie-Curie on a Eurotrip
In February a group of six PhD students, also known as… Five CSCT students and a computer science student OR, Two Germans, a Belgian, an Italian, a Catalan and a Brazilian OR, Two second year PhD students and four first...
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Home is Where Clean Water Flows
IWA Young Water Professional Benelux Conference, 5-7 July Going back to the source On the 5th of July I returned to the Bioscience Engineering department of the University of Ghent where I gained my Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering nearly...
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Our 'Island of Sustainability' at Festival of Nature 2017
On 10 and 11 June, our first year students took their ‘Island of Sustainability’ exhibition to the Festival of Nature 2017, where they ran activities to answer questions such as: “Can fruit waste make plastic?” and “How do you clean water?” Watch this...
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Explaining my PhD to a six-year-old
The Festival of Nature will be hosting the Bristol Free Fun Family Weekend at Bristol Harbourside on the 10 and 11 June. A group of 19 PhD students from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath have been...