Author: Hessam Mehr
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What’s been going on this summer?
The summer of 2024 was our busiest and most exciting by far. A lot of wonderful people joined the group; a few have already left and some are already thinking about coming back. Read on for a sneak peek at what we’ve been up to and the faces behind all the action. New faces in…
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Welcoming Josu
We are delighted to welcome Josu to the group. Josu is visiting us from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA)’s celebrated UPNALAB group, well known for their creative solutions touching human-computer interaction, different domains of engineering, physics, and yes, chemistry. He will be staying with us until early July as he looks at the possibilities…
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A sounding board for future chemistry: Sound Chemistry retrospect
Earlier this month I organised my first research workshop. Why did it seem like a good idea; what were the main ideas behind the workshop; and how did it go? Let me share the answers to these questions while my memory is still fresh. Fellow scientist will be familiar with the perks of our job,…
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The “optimiser” paper: Mapping out a path between optimisation and discovery
Our latest collaborative output with the Cronin group, codenamed “Chemputer Optimiser” is out in Nature Communications. Work on this paper started many years ago while I was still a post-doc in the Cronin group, and continued throughout the pandemic. As expected with an open-ended project like this, we had to stop many times and ask…