News
March ’24: Shahbaz joins us – welcome!
Dec ’24: Emma defends her PhD thesis – well done Emma!
Sept ’23: Daniel and Longwen join us – welcome!
Sept ’23: Nik secures £495k from the EPSRC for a project entitled “Computational Studies of Ambient Catalytic Dinitrogen Reduction by Electropositive Metal Tetraphenolate Complexes“.
Aug ’23: Jia, Tara, Josef and Nik visit Strasbourg for the 11th International Conference on the f Elements:
July ’23: Congrats to Jia, Tara and Ryan for securing a decent chunk of ARCHER2 time via the Materials Chemistry Consortium.
May ’23: Lin defends her PhD thesis – well done Lin!
April ’23: Celina and Song join us – welcome!
March ’23: Xiaoyu leaves us, and goes with all our good wishes and thanks.
Sept ’22: We welcome Tara and Josef to the group.
Sept ’22: Team outing to the “Actinides Revisited” conference in Dresden – nice talk from Jia, great posters from Xiaoyu, Ryan and Lin, and well done to Xiaoyu for winning a poster prize.
May-June ’22: Nik spends a few weeks with Polly Arnold in Berkeley:
Jan ’22: David Procter and Nik secure £669k from the EPSRC for a project entitled “Relaying radicals for catalytic couplings: Catalysis with SmI2“.
Dec ’21: Nik is awarded a Visiting Fellowship at St. Catherine’s College Oxford for Hilary Term 2022.
Oct ’21: Molecular actinide-actinide bonds are finally here – Th3 published in Nature.
Sept ’21: We welcome Ryan and Corinne to the group.
March ’21: We welcome Emma to the group.
March ’21: Ben defends his PhD thesis and joins the University’s Research IT team.
March ’21: Jia-Li defends her PhD thesis….and stays in the group as a PDRA.
Sept ’20: We welcome new members to the group – Nathan Alcock and Ammar Khakoo
Sept ’20: Vikki leaves us for pastures new in Liverpool, and goes with all our good wishes and thanks.
Apr ’20: Jonny defends his PhD thesis – good luck at the AWE, Jonny!
Apr ’20: Nik steps down as Head of Department of Chemistry.
Mar ’20: Francis Livens and Nik secure £931k from the EPSRC for a project entitled “Compositional and Structural Evolution of Plutonium Dioxide: Underpinning Future Decisions“, part of a c. £2.3M collaboration with Imperial College, the Diamond Light Source and the National Nuclear Laboratory.
Dec ’19: James defends his PhD thesis.
Sept ’19: Ben’s Nat. Chem. is published.
Sept ’19: We welcome new members to the group – Xiaoyu Han, Lin Yang and Annabel Basford.
Apr ’19: Jia-Li, Jonny, Jon and Nik attend the 1st annual meeting of the Transcend consortium.
Jan ’19: Vikki and Saira’s Nat. Commum. is published.
Jan ’19: Adam, Jia-Li and Naomi secure 33,558 kAU on ARCHER from the Materials Chemistry Consortium.
Dec ’18: James’ Energy and Environmental Science paper is published.
Oct ’18: Distinctive is dead, long live Transcend.
Sept ’18: We welcome new members to the Group – Sophie Cooper, Nic Greaves, George Dooley and Callum Robinson.
Sept ’18: Ben’s Chem. Comm. is published.
Sept ’18: Sophie S-H submits her thesis!
Sept ’18: Jonny wins best poster at Plutonium Futures!
Sept ’18: Vikki and Nik take FORTRESS to the ICFE.
Jul ’18: Adam, Jia-Li and Naomi secure 32,206 kAU on ARCHER from the Materials Chemistry Consortium.
Apr ’18: Nik takes over as Head of School of Chemistry.
Feb ’18: Kieran passes his viva with minor corrections – well done Kieran!
Dec ’17: Bengt and Han-Shi depart for pastures new – our thanks and very best wishes go with them.
Dec ’17: Adam, Jia-Li and Naomi secure 36,391 kAU on ARCHER from the Materials Chemistry Consortium.
Nov ’17: Nik’s review on Transuranic Computational Chemistry is published in CEJ.
Nov ’17: Vikki is awarded 991,670 CPU hours on the EPSRC’s “Cirrus” Tier 2 facility.
Nov ’17: Nik lectures to sixth formers at the University of Birmingham on “How far does the periodic table go?” as part of the West Midlands Chemistry Teachers’ Centre series.
Oct ’17: Nik visits Prof Jun Li at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Oct ’17: Bengt and Sophie present talks and posters at the Theme 2 meeting of the Distinctive Consortium.
Sept ’17: We welcome new members to the Group – Adam Thetford, Naomi Ofili, Jon Tanti, Ben Atkinson, Jia-Li Chen, Zöe Whalley and Jenny Millward.
Sept ’17: Happy birthday, Bill – The Beast is published!
May ’17: Check out Nik’s prediction of seventeen coordinate actinide compounds (a new world record coordination number).