Easter Conference Prize Success
News | Posted on Tuesday 16 May 2023
The outstanding performance of PhD and PDRA staff members from the Department of Chemistry has been highlighted across the recent Easter conference season.
The 2023 Easter conference season resulted in spectacular success for PhD and PDRA staff members winning prizes for poster and oral presentations. Across the Department, 16 prize winners were celebrated in the last six weeks at national and international conferences. This success speaks to the strength, quality and diversity of research that is being presented at conferences from our Department, whether a prize winner or not. Congratulations to all!
Prize winners:
- Isabelle Pickles, PDRA - Poster prize winner at the RSC Carbohydrate Group Spring Meeting (Gideon Davies’ Group)
- Mahima Sharma, PDRA - ECR talk prize at the RSC Carbohydrate Group Spring Meeting (Gideon Davies’ Group)
- Lorna Tang - PDRA - Poster prize winner at RSC Biotransformations II conference in Burlington House in London and Poster prize winner at 'Novel Enzymes' meeting in Greifswald Germany (Gideon Grogan’s Group)
- Nick Garland, PhD - Flash prize winner at the National JM iCASE studentship conference in Warwick (Alison Parkin/Duncan MacQuarrie Group)
- Ruhee Dawood - PhD - Johnson Matthey PhD Poster Competition 2023, Dept of Chemistry, University of York (Alyssa Avestro’s Group)
- Fraser Arnold - PhD - Fossey Memorial Poster Prize, John Fossey Memorial Symposium, University of Birmingham (Alyssa Avestro’s Group)
- Islam Araar, First poster prize - RSC Organic Division NE Regional Meeting in Northumbria University (Peter O’Brien Group)
- Yuran Wang, First poster prize - RSC Organic Division NE Regional Meeting in Northumbria University (Peter O’Brien Group)
- Kris Altus, PDRA - Poster prize winner RSC Dalton Division Meeting, Warwick (Andrew Weller Group)
- Mat Cross, PhD - Poster prize winner RSC Dalton Division Meeting, Warwick (Andrew Weller Group)
- Helena Lancaster, PhD - Prize honourable mention RSC Dalton Division Meeting, Warwick (Andrew Weller Group)
- Chloe Van Beek, PhD - Poster prize honourable mention RSC Dalton Division Meeting, Warwick (Andrew Weller Group)
- Rosalind Booth, PhD - Faraday Discussion, York (Anne Duhme Klair Group)
- Lukas Geciauskas, PhD - Poster prize RSC Dalton Division Meeting, Warwick (Anne Duhme Klair Group)
- Callum Gater, PhD - Johnson Matthey PhD Poster Competition 2023, Dept of Chemistry, University of York (Simon Duckett Group)
- Promeet Saha, PhD - Johnson Matthey PhD Poster Competition 2023, Dept of Chemistry, University of York (Paul McGonigal Group)