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David awarded a prestigious teaching grant for the development of new undergraduate practicals in photocatalysis
David has been awarded €15,000 from the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement fund to lead the PhotoCAT project. PhotoCAT will involve the development of new photocatalysis experiments and their subsequent introduction to the Un...
Post · September 25, 2025
Dr Lorraine Bateman brings our sensor molecules to SMASH
Delighted to see our collaborator Dr Lorraine Bateman present our recent work (with Smital Patil and Dr Eimear Courtney) on the development of chiral sensors for 31P NMR measurement of enantiopurity at SMASH (Small Molecules Are Still Hot) in Porto.
Post · September 24, 2025
Low Lung Function in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: a hidden risk
People living with serious mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, face a well-documented excess of premature morbidity and mortality. While suicide and cardiovascular disease are widely recognized, respiratory health has...
Post · September 23, 2025
Textured Journaling: A Tactile Archive from Regensburg
Inspired by the Germany-based Stadtstempel Projekt (@stadtstempel_projekt), I found myself in Germany (what a coincidence!) experimenting for the first time with an intuitive stamping technique I’ve come to call textured journaling.
Equipped wit...
Post · September 23, 2025
Can AI screen titles/abstracts in a systematic review?
As part of my PhD, I am in the pilot phase of a systematic review, currently experimenting with different approaches to screening. Given that I use large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT every day, I wondered if AI could help me do it faster. Y...
Post · September 21, 2025
"Self Interacting Dark Matter" : a cosmo-psychological thriller in 9 minutes
Creating this film was such a fascinating and exciting experience--I learned so much, got to know a lot of really wonderful and talented folks, and also got to flex some creative and problem solving muscles I hadn't before. Like, I got to be on a ...
Post · September 19, 2025
Phd defense of Alexander Nellessen
On the 18th of September Alexander defended his doctoral thesis dealing with the study of modified vanadia catalysts employed to remove NOx from exhaust gas streams. His work was done in the group of Prof. Per-Anders Carlsson and I was acting as c...
Post · September 19, 2025
OptofluidiX 2025 conference
OptofluidiX 2025, a conference locally hosted at the University of Leipzig from Falko Schmidt, Frank Cichos and Detlev Belder has just ended.
We look back at 2.5 days packed with forefront research within optofluidics, combining novel optical ima...
Post · September 19, 2025
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