Our ESRs organized their first online conference on May 27th-28th, 2021. They gathered 12 speakers, who presented their work around the theme of light. A huge success for their first event! The programme and all the information are available here.
POLYTHEA in the PPS top content
2 POLYTHEA articles appear in the PPS Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences top content in 2020! A huge visibility for our project!
SENGE Group awarded
The group of Pr Mathias Senge has won the « Chemical Laboratory of the Year » award from The Irish Laboratory Awards 2021!! Huge congratulations to all the team!
Best poster award
Claire (ESR 8), Piotr (ESR 9) and João (ESR 4) won the best poster awards at the 5th Photodynamic Day organized by Acibadem University on May 18th!
Huge congratulations to the 3 of them!
Project extension
Because of the pandemic, POLYTHEA has been granted a 6 month extension, to allow our ESRs to defend their thesis in the best conditions possible. The project will end on June 30th, 2022.
Publications
5 new publications have been accepted this first semester.
TCD 3rd year talks:On September 2nd, 2021, Piotr (ESR 9), Harry (ESR 6) and Zoi (ESR 2) had their 3rd year Ph.D. talk online, an event gathering TCD and UCD 3rd year PhD students.
ACS Fall Meeting: Zoi (ESR 2) presented her work to the ACS Fall Meeting on August 22nd, 2021.
University of Mexico : Nidia (ESR 7) was invited on January 19th to give a talk on her research and the project by the Insitute of Chemisty of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. It was a verty nice way to present her work and the project outside of Europe.
Upcoming eventsNidia's defense - September 14th, 2021 / Final meeting - Switzerland - January 5th-7th, 2022