Amazing effort led by Dr Amy Hall on a compound I love. 😊

I am so proud of my former student Pietro Sacchi! His inspiring work recognised with the BACG2024 Young Scientist Award! Well done Pietro!!!! Proud supervisor!

Ohhhh exciting stuff!!!

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Fantastic well deserved Wimbledon win by fellow Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz! We are so proud of you! Young, talented, sports gentleman, and inspiring! And above all, a kind, nice young man!

Outstanding achievement by Spain! Very well done.

Define academia in two words…: Constant Rejection

Absolute privilege to work with PalmerLab and the rest of the team on rationalising the morphologies of solid solutions of guanine. Thank you team!

My first journal cover art was published this morning! It’s one for the office wall for sure! Aurora, Jonathan Steed, Crystal Growth & Design / ACS doi.org/10.1021/acs.cg…

I cannot recommend working with my amazing colleague Allegra Franchino enough! It would be an incredible opportunity in your career.

So deeply saddened by the loss of lives by “la Dana” storm in Spain. Incredibly sad. And so deeply moved by the unprecedented solidarity of the Spanish people. #withSpain #Solidarity

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The catastrophic situation in #Valencia caused by #DANA demands the best of ourselves. All your support messages are very much appreciated. As requested, secure channels to collect donations: CARITAS caritas.es, CRUZ ROJA www2.cruzroja.es More info DM

Great to see our research group taking shape with Martha, Zac and Willow (left to right) taking the plunge and joining me for what I hope will be some fun chemistry. More about the group on our website: borslab.net/meet-the-group…

We are recruiting for a postdoc position in synthetic chemistry in my group. Please get in touch if you'd like to know more. Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Research Associate in Sustainable Synthesis jobs.kent.ac.uk/NATS-325-24-R

📣El GE3C ha concedido el 🏅Premio Sagrario Martínez Carrera, en su cuarta edición, a la Dra. Lourdes Infantes San Mateo del IQF-CSIC! 🎉

Extensive analysis of 1:1 two-component cocrystals in CSD reveals that hydrogen bonds and stacking/T-type interactions contribute equally to the stabilisation of cocrystal lattices, by Aurora, Dr Amy Hall of Durham Chemistry, @prspackman nature.com/articles/s4200…

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

Our recent work was included in the Communications Chemistry 2024 Editors’ Highlights Collection, what an honour! nature.com/collections/ah…

Women are still significantly under-represented in Chemistry in academia. Whilst I do not like to be in the spotlight, it is important that women in senior positions share their experiences. Here is mine, timed with tomorrow's celebrations for Women and Girls in Science Day.