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 🙏

Day 2 of #EAP2024 kicks off with an invited talk by Ali Salehi-Reyhani from Imperial College London on portable liquid chromatography 🙌 Looking forward to a jam-packed day full of #AnalyticalAdventures 🤩

Day 1 of #EAP2024 🤩 Delighted to be giving an invited talk this weekend. Major shout out to the organising committee who made it possible for me to bring little one along who’s already enjoyed a swim and all the carb options at the opening dinner 🏊‍♂️🥔🥖 #TravellingScientist

Second day of #COAST2024 - not too shabby a venue 😍 Great mix of talks so far on energy materials, characterisation and sustainability from industry and academia 💎🔋🔬💚 #EasyBeingGreen #XraysIlluminate

I’m at a conference right now and can only 💯% second this. Main reasons I’m still able to do it: (1) an incredible mum who has travelled to look after little one, (2) ££ to cover the additional costs, (3) lots of planning, (4) Austrian cake and coffee. Joke aside: it’s tough! 😴

In Vienna to present some of the group’s work on metal hydrides 🔋 Bonus visit to the NHM Wien over the weekend (mainly to entertain little one), but had to take a double take when I spotted some of the SiC wafers we’ve been working on 🤩 #CantEscape #MaterialsEverywhere

Fantastic talk by UCL colleague Pavlo Zubko on ferroelectric superlattices at #Dielectrics24 🙌 Ordered systems are just so intensely satisfying 🤩

Great plenary talk by Dr Shelly Conroy at #Dielectrics24 today 🙌 My expectations were high, but I was still blown away by the beautiful microscopy 😍 Amazing work following the dynamic behaviour of domain walls 💪

Always a joy to work with the Birkel team 💪 aysha and Yujiang_ZHU worked on the #XPS and #HAXPES and we collected some lovely data HAXPES at DESY DESY (English) 🙌

New work lanyard pin alert 🚨 It takes a lot to get a coveted slot on my lanyard, but couldn’t resist the #MerckPins test tube #WomanInScience one 🤩 If you want to get your hands on a Merck pin, check out SigmaAldrich.com/smile (there are a few different ways) 🧪🌡️⚗️

Join us for the ML for Quantum Matter workshop in 渋谷 May 3rd - we've got foundation models, neural wave functions, generative models, unbiased sampling and so much more!!🕹️💾🤯
Oh - and an exclusive university catering lunch ... all for just £15!! 😋 frost-group.github.io/ml4qm/

We are looking for a PhD student at the University of Tartu (Estonia) to model scintillator materials. Supervisors: Matthias Kahk, Marco Kirm and me.
Will be lots of fun! Funded by MarieSkłodowskaCurie
DM me if you have questions.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/203773
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Back “home” HAXPES at DESY DESY (English) for a week of #HAXPES fun 🤩 This week’s task: expanding our work on metal hydrides and how the electronic structure relates to their formation enthalpy 🙌 #WOOSHH

Calling all Light Sources! If you would like to submit a new mug, or know of a new lightsource mug please drop me a DM and we can get everything sorted for the start of #SynchrotronMugMadness 3!

(also Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste who I missed on the post below)

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Really looking forward to this workshop in June 🤩 There have been many exciting advances in computation of X-ray spectra in recent years and it’s a great opportunity to bring new and seasoned colleagues in this emerging area together 💪 Come join us! 🇫🇮

Mary Ryan and I are still looking for a PhD student to work on low-grade water electrolysis for green hydrogen production. The project is in collaboration with an industrial partner and covers UK home tuition fees! Apply here 👉
imperial.ac.uk/materials/stud…
Royal Academy of Engineering Imperial Materials

Thank you very much to Rachael Buchanan and Francesca Bauer for producing/coordinating this super-professional video. They managed to make even me look not completely foolish -no mean feat.

A good omen at the end of day 1 of the CONEXS sandpit 🌈 Looking forward to more discussions tomorrow 🤩

Afternoon session of CONEXS sandpit underway with a talk by Robert Palgrave on laboratory-based XPS 🙌 Rob is highlighting both the strengths of the technique as well as some of the challenges that theory may be able to help address 💜💚

Day 1 of the CONEXS sandpit at Research Complex at Harwell 🙌 Kicking us off is Tom Penfold from Newcastle University giving an introduction to HPC-CONEXS 💪 Our main goal is to bring theorists and experimentalists together to drive progress in our understanding and application of spectroscopy