Rob Hicks
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Out of the Research Lab and into the Fjord - Tackling Palm Oil with Rainforest Foundation Norway.
Rob Hicks is a PhD student working with Dr Daniel Henk and Dr Chris Chuck on using natural variation and adaptive evolution of Metschnikowia pulcherrima for lipid production from low value plant feedstocks. As the detrimental environmental and social impacts of the...
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European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting - Two years on!
The following blog is written by Suzy Wallace. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting twice now during my PhD. The first time I presented at this meeting was during my first...
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Brazilian Diaries: Visit to University of Campinas
The following blog is contributed by Jamie Courtenay of the '14 Cohort. Today marks the start of the last week of my two month visit to Brazil. I head out early in the morning to the University of Campinas (UNICAMP),...
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Teaching and learning experience at Yonsei University
The following blog is contributed by Dan Davies of the '14 cohort. At Easter time this year, in order to finally break out of the annual habit of stuffing my face with inadvisably large quantities of chocolate, I travelled to...
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Members of the Walsh group spark an interest during a visit to St. Saviour's 'Solar School'.
The following blog is contributed by Dan Davies of the '14 Cohort. Just before Christmas, Lucy, Keith and I teamed up to pay a visit to St Saviour’s Infant School in Bath. Lucy is part of the New and Sustainable...
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IUMRS-ICAM 2015 - Culture, Climbing and Conferences.
The following blog is contributed by Suzy Wallace from the 2014 Cohort. On the 26th of October I presented my research on the potential earth abundant and non-toxic solar cell absorber material CZTS (Cu2ZnSnS4) at the IUMRS-ICAM 2015 conference for...
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Small Molecule NMR – a SMASHing time
The following blog comes from Andrew Hall, who between the 20th-24th September, attended the Small Molecule NMR Conference within the beautiful setting of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. SMASH NMR is not something you do when your Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer...
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"Water, Water, Everywhere" at Cheltenham Science Festival 2015
On the 6th and the 7th of June, the ’14 cohort took their ‘Water Water… Everywhere?’ exhibition to the Cheltenham Science Festival – one of the foremost science festivals within the UK – where they aimed to inform the public...
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Renewable Resources and Biorefineries Conference
On 3–5 June, CSCT student Sonia Raikova attended the 11th annual conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries which was held in the beautiful city of York. Out of 112 participants at the conference, Sonia won the prize for the best poster! The conference was...
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The 2014 Cohort Begin Their Public Engagement Adventure.
On the 20th-21st of March, first year CSCT students took part in their first public engagement task where they attended ‘Bath Taps into Science’; a two day science event aimed at engaging members of the general public with the research...