The team warmly welcome Arthur (PhD) and Will (visiting researcher) and wish them both all the best in their projects.
News blog
Celebrating the graduates
Congratulation to Steve and Tom for having successfully defended their master thesis!
It was an intense but rewarding job: getting the first ultrafast Transient Absorption data of the group.
Looking back at it, it is always an amazing feat; that of making a molecule speak… something that you cannot even see by eye, being too small, moving too fast, but still being able to listen to it by means of high power laser and a dose of computational modelling 🙂
We wish you all the best for your future career.
Ignite Academy 2017
Adrien will participate to the next Ignite event here in Sheffield!
Ignite is a series of motivational talks, 5 min each, that aims at promoting new projects, ideas, … kind of an intellectual speed dating.
Come along and get ignited!
Next Thursday, 21st at 6:30 pm, at the Crucible Theatre.
Think out of the box!
Challenge:Â Where to get a custom-made magnetic stirrer bar of less then 1 mm in diameter?
Solution: Well… nowhere! Hence with the expertise of Tom Franklin from Tony Ryan’s group, Steve and I started developing our own home-made magnetic plastic that can take what ever shape we need! Here is the team in action:
Steve spreading the magic powder
Tom handling the press like a pro!
Here are the first results:
And indeed, it is magnetic!
For a first trial, the magnetic plastic is a quite promising material; let’s see if we can induce within it a permanent magnetic moment.
… to be continued.
Energy Symposium
Although certain leaders on the other side of the Atlantic reject the idea of Global Warming, we still have to face the fact that our carbon emission triggered  a world-wide climate change. Weather we will survive it, as a human species, or not partially depends on its magnitude and on our adaptive capabilities.
With this goal in mind, the University of Sheffield is doing its bit by organising the 2017 Energy Symposium: a day filled with short presentations and posters to foster collaborations and new ideas for a greener future!
It will be this Monday, 24th of August 2017, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Come and join us and save the world!
Open PhD studentship
The group has an opening for this coming October 2017: A PhD studentship in ultrafast spectroscopy. Follow the link for more details.
Liam’s master thesis defence
On May 10th, Liam Banerji successfully defended his master thesis here in the Chemistry department. Liam worked on developing a new analytical tool to resolve spectral shifts dynamics. These band-shift are characteristics of electronic and structural modification of the proteins. He was able to resolve previously unknown band-shift within the heme-proteins called cytochrome bc1.
Congratulation to Liam and we wish him all the best for his future endeavours!
24 hour inspire
On March 30th, Dr. Chauvet participated to the 24h Inspire event: talking about ultrafast spectroscopy to a group of insomniac at 5 am. The total fund raised was bit more than £2500. Thumbs up to all the 24h team for this fantastic event!
