Brasch Group News 2018
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December 2018: Vinay presents a poster at the Ions Koala conference in Sydney
December 2018: Ruth submits her PhD thesis! Ruth has accepted a postdoctoral position with Professor Cather Simpson, University of Auckland.
November 2018: Nicola gives a Dodd-Walls sponsored seminar at the University of Victoria, Wellington.
November 2018: Jess Fredericksen joins the group! Welcome, Jess!
November 2018: Nicola is appointed to the Diversity Committee of the Dodd-Walls Centre.
October 2018: Vinay is awarded a travel grant from the Dodd-Walls Centre!
September 2018: Dominique is awarded a Dodd-Walls PhD scholarship! Congratulations, Dominique!
July 2018: Marwa graduates with an MSc degree. Congratulations Marwa!
July 2018: Ruth makes it through to the Finals of the AUT Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition!
June 2018: Ruth, Vinay, Dominique and Nicola attend the Dodd-Walls symposium at the University of Auckland. Ruth gives an invited oral presentation and wins an award!
May 2018: Nicola is appointed an Associate Investigator at the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies
May 2018: Vinay, Sonya and Joe’s paper on the synthesis and release of HNO from the HNO donor trifluoromethanesulphonyl-hydroxamic acid is featured as a Frontispiece in Chemistry-A European Journal. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201800662
May 2018: Lynn Lisboa has been awarded a Marsden doctoral scholarship to carry out PhD studies in the lab of Associate Professor James Crowley at the University of Otago. Her project concerns stimuli-responsive supramolecular flowers. Congratulations, Lynn!
April 2018: Yue Shen accepts a job at BASF, Shanghai. Congratulations, Yue!
April 2018: Joe and Ruth’s paper on photoactive HNO donors incorporating the (3-hydroxy-2-naphthalenyl)methyl phototrigger is featured on the Cover page of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
March 2018: Dominique Rwizinkindi joins the group for his PhD studies. Welcome, Dominique!
February 2018: Ruth travels to the University of Hong Kong to collect time-resolved spectroscopic data in the lab of Professor David Lee Phillips for her HNO donor molecules, thanks to funding from the Dodd-Walls Centre and the Photon Factory.
Ruth (sitting in the centre) together with Professor David Phillips’ research group.
February 2018: Marwa completes the requirements for an MSc degree. Congratulations, Marwa!
February 2018: Lynn is awarded an “A grade” for her Honours thesis, and a 1st class Honours degree in Chemistry! Congratulations, Lynn!
February 2018: Ruth wins the Best Poster award at the School of Science Graduate Research Showcase!