Seminars & Conferences

The aim of my PhD is to design a bioreactor to produce miniature tumours (organoids) in large scales for drug testing. Organoids are better than the more conventional 2D models for testing drugs because they closely mimic the 3D structure...

Computational simulations are becoming ever more integral to scientific research. Thanks to advances in computer hardware and modelling techniques, computational chemists are now able to accurately predict properties of materials before they are synthesised, explain what is going on at...

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...

In February 2018, I was lucky enough to travel to Thailand with other members of the Bull and James groups to attend the Pure and Applied Chemistry Conference (PACCON) in Hat Yai, Thailand. The theme of the conference was 'Chemistry...

One humid Sunday in March 2018, 16,585 chemists gathered in New Orleans for the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The ACS holds meetings twice a year, and the theme of this Spring meeting was “Nexus of Food,...

During my PhD I was very fortunate to do a research collaboration placement at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Colorado, USA. My placement took place over the course of autumn and winter so I certainly had some interesting...

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...

This year I attended the 2017 Fall MRS (Materials Research Society) Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. I presented research conducted in collaboration with Duke University on the properties of selected photoactive minerals, evaluating their potential for use as the light absorbing...

From 26 November to 1 December I attended the 2017 Boston MRS Fall Meeting. This major conference was a great experience, full of talks and poster sessions covering the hot topics of materials science. In addition, I was lucky enough...

From 10 - 13 July, the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) Liverpool hosted the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 13th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC13). This conference happens every two years and always attracts hundreds of delegates from all over...