Welcome!
Welcome to new PhD student Isabel Raby, who will working working on magnetic nanostructures and flow synthesis of materials.
Congratulations
Well done to Dr Craig Dedman who has been awarded a Doctoral Researcher Award 2021 Recognition Award (more info) – many congratulations!
Poster Prizes
Congratulations to Viliyana Lewis for winning the 2nd year Inorganic Chemistry PhD student Prize! And congratulations to Marwa Rizk who won a poster prize as part of the Materials for Life session at the 15th Materials Chemistry conference!
Welcome!
Welcome to new PDRF Dr Fuqiang Chang, who joins the group to work on our new EPSRC-funded project on 1D nanomaterials.
New Papers
Congratulations to Craig Dedman, who has had an excellent month, with the acceptance and publication of two fantastic papers investigating the interactions of nanoparticles with marine microbes: read about titania here and ceria here! Work co-supervised with Dr Joseph Christie-Oleza, University of the Balearic Islands.
Welcome!
Welcome to new PhD students Adila Islam and Aoife Kavanagh, who joined the group in October through the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials – looking forward to welcoming you to the team and working with you!
New papers
Ziwei’s paper on mapping drug release using MRI is now out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B – DOI
Craig’s paper on the mechanisms of silver nanoparticle toxicity is now out in Science of the Total Environment – DOI
Aaron’s paper on precision designed MRI contrast gents is now out in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science – DOI
Welcome!
May has been a busy month – we welcome to the group Dr Joe Manning as PDRA!
Welcome!
Welcome to the group to new PhD student Sam Ackerley, who started his PhD in May 2020 supported by the CDT in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies.
Welcome!
We welcome another PhD new starter to the group, Mark Hardmeier, who will be supervised by Dr Davies and Dr Williams (Pharmacy).
Welcome!
The Davies group welcomes another PhD student, Mary Strimaite, who starts her PhD supervised by Dr Gareth Williams and Dr Gemma-Louise Davies, sponsored by the EPSRC funded CDT in Advanced Therapeutics and Nanomedicines.
Award Nomination
Gemma has been nominated for a UCL Student Choice Award in the category “Outstanding Research Supervision”!
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