Had a fantastic weekend at #EAP24 up in Leeds 🙌 Fantastic analytical science from both industry and academia covering a broad range of techniques and challenges 💪 10/10 to the organisers for putting together a great experience 🙏

The moment we stopped watching Bridgerton Let us explain ... Things were going great and we were really getting into Season 3. That is until we watched this scene unfold before our eyes ....

Sol-gel chemistry can be quite complex! We unravel the formation of V2PC by analyzing the intermediate amorphous and crystalline species with multiple diffraction, spectroscopy, and thermal analysis techniques in our latest work in Inorganic Chemistry. #MAXPhases pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

2 year postdoctoral research associate in the Pike Group soon to be available, with start date Oct 2024. Advert to go live early June. Project will focus on the photochemistry of exciting Ti and Ce-oxo cluster molecules!

After much preparation #HAXPES2024 in Pilsen is finally here and is kicking off with a plenary by Alex Gray 🙌 Pleasure to be co-chairing the 10th edition of the HAXPES conference series 🤩 #PhotoelectronGeeks

First of three talks at #HAXPES2024 that we were fortunate enough to be involved in 🙌 Francesco Offi is presenting our joint work on transition metal dihydrides and connecting their electronic structure and formation enthalpy 🩵 #Hydrogen

Atsushi Hariki from Osaka Metropolitan University is presenting some of our joint work with Frank de Groot on the theory of HAXPES core state spectra of transition metal oxides 🙌 Everyone who knows me knows the 1s spectra are my personal favourite 💛 #HAXPES2024

Grand finale of talks at #HAXPES2024 we’ve been fortunate to be involved in: Laura Ratcliff giving an overview on her work trying to tackle disordered systems and calculating photoemission spectra we can compare to experimental #XPS and #HAXPES results 💙 #FriendlyTheorist

Week 2 of June - another country, another spectroscopy-heavy conference 🙌 Excited to be at #ECASIA24 in Gothenburg and to be presenting a keynote on some of our recent #HAXPES work including method development and application 🤩

Dita and colleagues did an absolutely fantastic job organising last week‘s HAXPES meeting 💪 Very excited to be organising #HAXPES26 together with Tien-Lin Lee 🙌 We‘ll need to work hard to keep the standard as high as this year 😅

Another day at #ECASIA24 - it has to be a great conference if they have a to scale LEGO model of the buildings 🤩

Fantastic plenary by Ute Cappel from Uppsala University at #ECASIA24 🙌 A tour de force of how photoelectron spectroscopy provides crucial insights into key technologies 💪 Beautifully done spectroscopy with many systematic (and dynamic) experiments 💙

Week 3 of June conferences 🤩🥵 This week is all about theory of X-ray spectroscopy Aalto University 🙌 Also nice to be geeking out over #XPS / #HAXPES together with UCL Chemistry colleague Robert Palgrave 🤓 Thanks to Miguel Caro for the organisation and invitation 💙 #RACXS2024

Final day of #RACXS2024 and the end of my June conference marathon 💪 The conference dinner last night was only beaten by the walk back to the hotel along the shoreline at 11 PM with the midsummer light creating the most fantastic colours in the sky 🌅

It was a pleasure to present the group’s #HAXPES & #XPS work at #RACXS2024 and particularly the fantastic work of our theory colleagues who really go above and beyond to calculate spectra for us that aid in our understanding of chemical bonding and electronic structure 💙

Rob Palgrave from UCL Chemistry opening the #FutureMatDiscovery workshop at UCL on this rather warm day in central London 🤩 Great line-up of speakers with plenty of space for discussions too 💪 #HotMaterials

My expectations for talks by David Scanlon are always very high so pleased to say he delivered at #FutureMatDiscovery just now 😅 Great discussion on the hugely important role of defects in materials that even a mere experimentalist could follow 🙌 #WhatDefect

This never gets old - lighting up our samples under the X-ray beam during our current Diamond Light Source I09 #HAXPES beamtime this week ✨ We are measuring with a defocused beam in grazing incidence on transparent substrates leading to the most amazing, humongous beam spot 💡

Excited to announce the launch of a series of webinars on #Ga2O3 delivered by leading ECRs in the field! Everyone is welcome! Wed 17 July (2 pm) Piero Mazzolini “Annealing effect on shallow and deep level defects in κ-Ga2O3 thin films” To register 👉 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1ff7f79c…