On Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th July, cohort 4 as well as several Cardiff Catalysis Institute students, totalling 20 students, enjoyed a 2 day site visit hosted by BP Chemicals at Saltend in Hull. The trip was organised in conjunction with the CDT and BP, and included educational workshops, site…
Congratulations to Keiko, who passed her PhD viva on March 18th 2019! Her PhD ” Selectivity and Lifetime Effects in Zeolite Catalysed Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Substituted Cyclohexanones ” was supervised by Dr Ceri Hammond (Cardiff), Dr Nikolaos Dimitratos (Cardiff) and Dr Antoine Buchard (Bath).
CDT in Catalysis annual conference 10:00 Tuesday 4th June – 13:00 Thursday 6th June 2019 The CDT in Catalysis welcomes you to attend the 3-day 2019 CDT in Catalysis annual conference at Cardiff University. The conference will include industrial presentations from national and global chemical companies, research presentations, flash…
A recently published article in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry was authored by the Morrill group at Cardiff University, including Cohort 2 student Kurt Polidano. The article concerns recent advances in borrowing-hydrogen catalysis, with the abstract below, and is now available. “The review highlights the recent advances (2013-present) in the use…
Our fifth cohort started last week, and are currently deep in their induction to the respective universities. After spending last week getting acquainted with Cardiff, they’ve been in Bath from Monday and will now be in Bristol until Friday. At each university, they’re being given an introduction to the department,…
The next student-lead seminar will be held at: Venue: University of Bristol, LT4 Date: Thursday the 15th of February You may download the programme here. Any queries, please contact the organisers: Paulina Genzels (pg15223@bristol.ac.uk) and Gael Gobaille-Shaw (gg15274@bristol.ac.uk)
On Monday 5th February the CDT MRes students gave their Catalytic Design Project presentations. This was a formal assessment day with the MRes students giving group presentations and posters with an industrial panel forming a ‘dragons den’ experience. It was an engaging day with really interesting projects, feedback from industry…
On Thursday 1st February as part of the training week Dr Paul Goodwin of Cardiff University, ran an IP Law workshop investigating what IP Law is, and why it is important for students to have a deeper understanding of the subject. On Friday 2nd February the CDT brought in Dr…
As part of the CDT annual training week we visited Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire on Wednesday 31st January. Alongside the CDT students we were joined by MSC and research students from Cardiff Catalysis Institute. Our researchers visited the fantastic facilities in Diamond, ISIS, the UK Catalysis Hub and EPSiC, opening…
The CDT spring Symposium is now open for registration. Download the Spring Conference 2018 Flyer Book your place via Eventbrite 5th June – CDT Spring Symposium Presentations from our current researchers and poster session 6th June – CDT Industrial Day A day of talks from industry linked to the…