The annual meeting of the British Liquid Crystal Society was hosted online by the University of Aberdeen Chemistry & Engineering departments, chaired by Dr Rebecca Walker (Lecturer in Chemistry) with Dr Alf Martinez-Felipe (Chemistry alumni and Lecturer in Engineering). It featured oral and poster presentations from PhD researchers working in the Imrie/Storey liquid crystals group, as well as an invited talk by Dr Rebecca Walker, the BLCS Young Scientist Award recipient for 2020.
The meeting was due to be held in April 2020 at the University of Aberdeen’s Fraser Noble Building and Elphinstone Hall, but was postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions and later moved online to the gather.town platform and was held Monday 21st- Thursday 24th June 2021. The meeting attracted participants from all over the world, with delegates attending from Russia, Croatia, Poland, Malaysia, Spain and the United States, and showcased cutting edge liquid crystal research in the fields of chemistry, physics, maths and engineering.
Oral presentations from PhD students Calum Gibb, Daniel Zaton, Amerigo Zattarin, Grant Strachan and Ewan Cruickshank were extremely well received, with Ewan Cruickshank also picking up the 2nd place prize for ‘Best Poster’ at the conference against stiff competition! Congratulations to our PhD students, you represented the University of Aberdeen Chemistry department brilliantly.
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