The annual Chemistry Department postgraduate symposium was held online over two days. It featured presentations from final year PhD researchers, flash presentations, and a poster session.
Research symposium 2021
The annual Chemistry Department postgraduate symposium was held over two days in June. Due to ongoing Coivid-19 restrictions it was an online event held on Teams.
The symposium showcased the diverse range of research taking place in the department, covering our main research themes of Energy, Environment, Advanced Materials, and Health.
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/chemistry/research-100.php
On Friday 18 June there were 15 20-minute presentations from PhD researchers. Summaries of the presentations were shared on Twitter by Dr Peter Henderson @Peter_Henderson, and shared by others including the Solid State Chemistry Group @AbSSChem, the Marine Biodiscovery Centre @MBC_UoA, Professor Angel Cuesta @c_ciscar, and several of the presenters and other PhD researchers from the department.
This was followed on Friday 25 June with 12 5-minute flash presentations, before moving to breakout rooms for poster presentations and discussions.
Symposium prize winners
Members of academic staff judged the events, and the list of prize winners is:
Presentations
1st prize: Struan Simpson, Chemistry in low-dimensional quantum materials. @Struan_Simpson.
2nd equal: Laura Perez Martinez, Electrochemical conversion of glycerol, methanol and formic acid using Au and Pt: self-poisoning problems to solve.
2nd equal: Calum Gibb, Alternative synthetic method to prepare liquid crystal dimers using sodium activated aromatic coupling reactions.
Flash presentations
1st prize: Jessica Gomez-Banderas, Development of a biofilm growth inhibition assay to aid the discovery of natural product antifouling compounds. @Jessica_GomezB.
2nd equal: Federica Casolari, Characterisation of wax synthases to investigate their high promiscuity towards different diacylglycerol and acyl-CoA species. @FedericaCasola2.
2nd equal: Dylan Tawse, Determination of ionic pathways in the hexagonal perovskite derivative Ba3VMoO8.5. @TawseDylan.
Poster presentations
1st prize: Amnah Alzbedy, Observation of high concentrations of unidentified organofluorines in pilot whales stranded in Scotland.
2nd prize: Brent Sherwood, Susceptor-assisted microwave processing of inorganic solids. @brentsherwood67.
Congratulations to the prize winners. Well done and thank you to everyone who participated, including the event organiser Dr Hai Deng.
The symposium programme and booklet of abstracts is available as a PDF attachment.
Final_agenda_and_abstracts_of_2021_Chemistry_PGR_symposium.pdf