Cohort 5 student Beckey Shutt writes about her experience in visiting and using the facilties at the UK neutron and muon source, ISIS. Read her blog on the Sience and Enginering South website – https://www.ses.ac.uk/2019/03/20/atomic-scale/
Students, staff and guest speakers recently attended the CDT-ACM Summer Retreat in Girona, Spain. The retreat was held at the Eden Roc Hotel in Girona from 16-19 July 2019. Three days of talks were organised alongside group activities where students
Students from CDT ACM) took part in the first ever Great Exhibition Road Festival on the last weekend of June. The Festival was a celebration of science and the arts in the spirit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s vision
Congratulations to Ioannis Ierides, who has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IET Postgraduate Awards are part of an awards and prizes scheme, which provides over £1,000,000 to celebrate excellence and innovation
Professor Saiful Islam was invited to give a seminar to CDT-ACM staff and students as part of the student-led seminar series. Saiful is Professor of Materials Chemistry at Bath University. His lecture was entitled From Lithium Batteries to Perovskite Solar
Building on the success of last year’s challenge, first year PhD students from the CDT-ACM were asked to build working microscopes for just £100. Four teams competed to win a prize awarded by the staff and students from the CDT.
Congratulations to CDT-ACM students Nadir Basma and Mohamed Koronfel who have passed their final vivas and been awarded their PhDs. Mohamed is a student at Imperial College and presented his research on ‘understanding the in-vivo reactivity of orthopaedic implants’. Nadir is a student at UCL
Congratulations to third year CDT-ACM student Jay Bullen who has won the award for best student presentation at the Royal Society of Chemistry annual meeting on the ‘Environmental Chemistry of Water, Sediment, Soil and Air’. The event took place on Wednesday 21st November 2018
Congratulations to Imperial College CDT-ACM student Sofia Marchesini has been awarded her PhD after passing her viva at Imperial College. Sofia’s research project was entitled 2D non-carbonaceous materials for chemical separations, and Sofia was sponsored throughout her PhD by industrial
Final year student Oscar Williams won the Best Oral Presentation Winner at the UCL-Peking University Symposium on Materials, Energy, and Catalysis in September 2018. Oscar’s presentation was entitled Observing the wanderings of gold atoms: A scanning tunnelling microscopy investigation. Both UCL and Peking University