Pat and Harry presented their work at the Royal Society of Chemistry Solid-State Chemistry Group Christmas meeting, here in Birmingham. Pat gave an oral presentation on his work investigating ZIF-67 crystallisation, and Harry gave a poster about the latest developments to the in-situ electric field cell at beamline I19-2 at Diamond. Well done both!
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Hamish, Pat and Harry attended the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Spring Meeting in Leeds, 25-28 March 2024, where a lot of exciting things happened!
Harry gave a talk about his PhD work, entitled “Driving Forces in the Phase Behaviour of MDABCO-based Ferroelectric Perovskites“, and Pat gave a talk about the group’s work on “Investigations of ZIF Crystallisation Mechanisms“.
After organising part of the meeting programme as one of the representatives of the Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG), Hamish was elected to be the Chair of the CCG Committee of the BCA, a post he will hold for the next three years.
Most excitingly, it was announced at the meeting that Pat has won the 2024 CCG-CCDC Prize for Younger Scientists, which is awarded each year “to a younger scientist who has performed original research in the field of chemical crystallography or the application of crystallographic information to structural chemistry”.
Well done on the talks, Harry and Pat, and congratulations Pat on the CCG-CCDC Prize!
Hamish, Joe A, Harry and Aaron attended the Spring Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association, at Leeds University 11–14 April 2022. It was great to be back for our first conference in person to catch up with the community and some of the latest science!
Joe and Aaron gave posters on their PhD research, whilst Harry gave a (virtual) talk in the PCG session on Structure-Property Relationships in Energy Storage, about his work on phase transitions in the MDABCO halide perovskites.
Hamish chaired the joint CCG/PCG session on Advances in Complementary Techniques and In Situ Crystallography, and was also awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists. As part of the prize, he gave a talk at the meeting, and received a unique memento from the CCDC of a model of one of the crystal structures from his PhD!
Suzie Hughes reports:
On the 8th of March I attended the 4th annual ‘Celebrating Women in Chemistry Conference and Careers Event’, hosted by the Women in Chemistry Group at the University of Nottingham. The day consisted of a number of talks from successful women both in academia and industry. They each described their starting points and the journeys they took to get to their current positions. Professor Katharine Reid (University of Nottingham) told of how in the early stages of her career she often lacked confidence, being the only woman in her research labs and struggling with comparing herself to others. She went on to become the first female lecturer in the Chemistry department at Nottingham and is now a member of the Faculty of Science Executive Board.
I think many in the audience could relate to this feeling of ‘not being good enough’, and it was inspiring to hear from women who had overcome these confidence barriers and progressed into leading roles. A wide variety of potential careers were covered in talks throughout the day, ranging from those in academia to start-up businesses and intellectual property, providing an insight into the breadth of opportunities out there for chemists. The recurring message that surfaced in most talks was ‘you’re better than you think you are’ – which is always encouraging to hear!
Find out more about the event at https://pc-womeninchemistry.wixsite.com/wicuon/
Yeung Research Group at UoB 