This month Joe Atherton joins us to start his PhD project on pre-nucleation in MOF formation, and Vicky Akroyd and Matt Bradberry begin their MSci fourth year projects with us. Welcome Joe, Vicky and Matt!
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This month we are joined by Harry Lloyd and Aaron Chambers, who will be starting two exciting, collaborative PhD projects in the group!


Harry is studying time-resolved dynamics of framework materials under electric fields on a joint Diamond Light Source PhD studentship. He’ll be co-supervised by Dr Lucy Saunders and Dr Mark Warren from Diamond, where he’ll spend two years getting hands-on at Beamline I19-1!
Aaron is studying the formation and processing of MOF nanoparticle composites as part of a collaboration initiative between the University of Birmingham and BAM, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin. He’ll be co-supervised by Dr Brian Pauw from BAM, where he’ll visit to perform 3-D printing and in-depth structural characterisation.
We’re excited to offer a UK/EU PhD studentship for October 2020 on the topic of microstructure in molecular framework alloys!
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/microstructure-in-molecular-framework-alloys/?p115358
Please see the above link for more information and contact Hamish for any other enquiries.
We’re excited to offer a 3.5 year UK/EU PhD studentship on the topic of pre-nucleation in the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks, starting October 2020!
Please see the above link for more information and contact Hamish for any other enquiries.
We’re really excited to offer a PhD studentship for 2020 joint with Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility!
The project is funded for 4 years and the student will spend 2 years at Birmingham, 2 years at Diamond, where they will investigate how the structures of functional materials – including metal–organic frameworks and molecular ferroelectrics – change with applied electric fields.
The student will gain cutting-edge skills in materials synthesis, time-resolved single crystal X-ray diffraction and physical property measurement.
Please see the link above for more information and to register interest. Contact Hamish for any other enquiries.