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Video: 3 Minute Thesis competition runner-up Michael Joyes
On Tuesday 5 June, eight doctoral students including CSCT student Michael Joyes competed against the clock in the University's Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final. Michael was announced runner-up in the competition. Hear about his experience in this video.
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Presenting at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans
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,...
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STEM4Britain at the Houses of Parliament
Back in March, second year PhD student Bethan Charles travelled to the Houses of Parliament to attend STEM for Britain Annual poster competition, which supports and promotes Britain's early-career research scientists and engineers. As politics is a game, she made a...
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Research placement at the National Renewable Energy Lab: Solar cells, snow and sunshine in Colorado!
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...
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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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Bath Taps Into Science 2018
At 9:30 on Friday morning, a quarter hour before the doors opened, there were already a crowd of excited children queueing outside. Nervous at the prospect of being ambushed by 1500 kids, we put the finishing touches on our ocean...
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5 Steps for having a Top-Koality Research Visit
1. Be very flexible! I had a fantastic experience on my placement, both scientifically and personally, and I think that one of the reasons it worked out so well is flexibility. The initial idea was to visit Rob Atkin’s group...
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Meet Cohort 2017
In October 2017, fourteen new students joined the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. Ahead of volunteering at the upcoming 'Bath Taps Into Science' festival, they thought now would be a good time to introduce themselves. The following post was designed by Jasmine...
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Fall MRS Meeting: Mentoring and Solar Cell Minerals in Boston
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...
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Materials Research Society Conference in Boston
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...
