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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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Exploring chemistry beyond the flask: My final year project on aerosol microdroplets
Hello! My name is Jakub Wosik and I’m a BSc Chemistry (Hons) student just finishing up my fourth year here at the University of Glasgow. Last summer I was faced with the decision of what subfield of Chemistry my final year project was going to revolve around. Following a six-week summer internship in the Complex…
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Crafting next-generation reaction containers out of mists of tiny particles
Hi everyone! My name is Zhang Luokun, a master student of Advanced Functional Materials from the University of Glasgow. I am currently working as an intern in the Mehr research group. Two years ago, I came to Glasgow after finishing my undergraduate studies in China. For my program, I learnt the synthesis technology and characterisation…
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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…