The winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering Bhattacharyya Award will be announced this evening. We are so pleased to have been shortlisted for our extensive collaboration with the nuclear decommissioning sector. Watch the video highlighting our impact: youtu.be/L6eD9XdjfYQ

Perfect snowy weather reading; our newly accepted XMCD study investigating 3d-4s trends of linear transition metal ions undertaken at I10-BLADE Diamond Light Source, Myron S. Huzan 🇺🇦. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Opportunity to do a PhD f-element (4f & 5f) synthetic chemistry and redox chemistry in my group The University of Manchester. Make molecules with no right to exist. Excellent ties to some of the best characterisation (EPSRC National Research Facility for EPR), and theory folks. #ChemPhD (capgoodwin.com)

This scheme is an excellent way for a Postdoctoral researcher to advance their research career. Get in touch if you think this scheme interests you. We’ve got some excellent collaborations ongoing with MLBaker Group in need of talented spectroscopists. #Chemistry #felements

Ever considered doing a #PhDposition in another country? What about two countries? See se.manchester.ac.uk/phds-science-e… For a joint Tsinghua University + The University of Manchester PhD studentship on advanced X-ray spectroscopy to unravel the properties of rare-earth complexes in unusual oxidation states.

This is a joint spectroscopy / theory project between: MLBaker Group (mlbakerlab.co.uk); GoodwinGroup (capgoodwin.com); Prof. Han-Shi Hu (x-mol.com/groups/HanshiHU); Prof. Jun Li (junlilab.org/index.html) (Note, Manchester is rarely as sunny as shown above).

Excellent week of beamtime at Diamond Light Source, putting our new active materials cryostat well and truly to the test! ☢️💎❄️ Some tremendous results from the upgraded I20-Scanning RIXS spectrometer. Big thanks to Shu, Alan, John Seed, Myron S. Huzan 🇺🇦 and Nathan Alcock! #actinideRIXS

🏅And 1st place goes to Myron Huzan for their poster on 'Quantifying the influence of 3d-4s mixing on linearly coordinated metal ions.' Congratulations, Myron. 👏

🌐This week we welcomed over 120 scientists from across our international community for our Spectroscopy Group User Meeting 2024. 🤝Thank you to everyone who joined us to showcase the recent scientific results and the latest developments across the Spectroscopy Group.

Had a great time presenting yesterday at the ‘Social Mobility Symposium’ organised by the University of Manchester. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about my experience going into higher education as someone from a working-class background! #SocialMobilityDay

Really happy to have presented some of my recent research at the UoM Chemistry PGR Conference 2024! Thanks to everyone who has worked hard to make all of this happen - MLBaker Group, Tim Burrow, Myron S. Huzan 🇺🇦, John Seed, Maja Dunstan, Kasper S. Pedersen!

Very well done Nathan Alcock on a fantastic talk, and congratulations for winning Best Presentation Prize! 🏆 🥇☢️⚛️

Congratulations to PhD student Alan Qi, who recently won a poster prize at the Diamond Light Source Spectroscopy Group meeting for his work on probing non-Aufbau divalent lanthanides with RXES!

And congratulations to Myron S. Huzan 🇺🇦 for his poster prize at the Diamond Light Source Magnetism Group meeting! That makes 3 for 3 Baker Group winners this month! 🏆

Very excited to be back European Synchrotron for a week of beamtime at ID26! Looking forward to seeing what we discover as the week unfolds ☢️🧪

Enjoying the fantastic early career Research in Progress meeting UoM Science and Engineering organised by Environmental Mineralogy Group and RSC Radiochemistry Group . Thanks to everyone for great talks, posters and lively discussions 👏

So excited to finally have this work out there! Lots of hard work went into this from everyone involved, so huge thanks to everyone! Keep your eyes peeled for more exciting RIXS to come! ☢️🧪

🎉 Now in 'J. Am. Chem. Soc.: Determination of Uranium Central-Field Covalency with 3d4f Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering 🔗pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Very pleased to contribute to this spectacular project spearheaded by MLBaker Group. #actinides #uranium #covalency Check it out👇