Are you considering doing a PhD? Ask yourself these 8 questions before you start. A thread. 🧵

Last month we had the pleasure of hosting Jikson, a PhD student from the De Roo Lab, who came to learn all about Zr-MOF synthesis and characterisation

Barbecue time for De Roo Lab family 💙. Can't really believe we have grown very fast to a big group.

Had a really cool time in Lisbon attending 10th EuChemS Chemistry Congress. Outstanding scientific exchange, neat career kickstart guidance by American Chemical Society, interaction with lots of amazing people and a poster prize as a cherry on top. EuChemS

Hearty congratulations to Antonia Rimpf for successfully defending her master thesis🧑‍🔬🧑‍🎓. @jonathan_deroo JIKSON P MATHEW Ajmal Roshan Rohan Pokratath Universität Basel

Congratulations Ajmal Roshan for securing the best poster award during SNI annual meeting 2022 🎉. Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) Universität Basel

Continuing my Villum International Postdoc adventure with a 9 months stay at the Interface Science Department Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. So let’s look at those complicated nanoparticle surfaces to better understand the active sites driving crucial catalytic reactions 👏 Science at VILLUM

Congratulations to the Chemistry PhDs Football Team for winning the Science Cup 🥳🏆 #PCC #winningteam #Chemistry #Unibasel

Finally, the thread (you didn't know) you have been waiting for 🥳 "How can we use X-ray scattering to learn about the way the atoms sit in a #small #nanoparticle?" - lets use the Pair Distribution Function #PDF ! It's all about the neighbors 1/6 /Rebecca Pittkowski

The #Chemistry team again came strong during the inter-faculty #futsal tournament and defeated the Biozentrum, Psychology and Physics before ceding the place to the Medicine team in the finals! Congratulation on winning the runner-up prize sponsored by Syngenta. #Unibas

Merry Christmas ⛄ And wishing you all a prosperous year ahead. Enjoy your Holidays 😊

Beamtimes are always exciting, this one is a bit more special when it is the last one from your Ph.D. Had a cool time looking at lots of samples from Group of Prof. Parac-Vogt - Bioinorganic Chemistry and other collaborators. Thanks Dr. Nada and Carlotta. DESY (Deutsch) De Roo Lab

#ASAP: Detailed investigation of the pre-crystallization phase of zirconium oxide nanocrystals using X-ray total scattering and small angle scattering. By De Roo Lab @kirsten_mj @b_abk6 Billinge Group #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Rohan Pokratath is talking about zirconia nanocrystal synthesis and mechanisms now #UKColloids2023

Grateful for an amazing experience at the #UKColloids2023! 🙌 It was a fantastic opportunity to learn from industry experts, engage in thought-provoking discussions, and connect with like-minded professionals. A heartfelt thanks to Swiss-crystallography SCI – Where Science Meets Business💡 for their funding.

We couldn't stand aside from the world trends! Meet De Roo lab in the Barbieland!

Congratulations to Liza on winning the best talk award at the SNI annual meeting 2023 🎉👏

It’s a big day for the De Roo lab as we have our first Ph.D. graduate from the lab. Rohan successfully defended his Ph.D. today. Congratulations Dr. Rohan Pokratath 🥳🎉🍾

Congratulations to Dr. Dietger on successfully defending his Ph.D. Great work on metal-oxo clusters! 🥳🎉🍾

just saw a paper from a famous group. acknowledgments: X conceived the study, carried out measurements, analyzed data, and wrote initial manuscript. there are total 12 authors on the manuscript.... #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter