Bright, highly motivated candidates are invited to apply for a fully funded 3.5 year PhD position in the School of Chemistry, available to commence on 1st October 2025 in the Schmidt research group at the University of Glasgow. The accumulation of polymer materials in the environment belongs to the major…
You will be working as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in the young and enthusiastic Franchino group, within the Department of Chemistry at Durham University. The post is available for 3 years, including 1-year probation, with an ideal start date on February 2025 or later. The salary is grade 7,…
Groups using the Research Complex at Harwell. Visiting researchers Fellows Hosted at Research Complex at Harwell Groups using the Research Complex facilities: Institution University of Glasgow Gibson group Lennon group University of Oxford O’Hare groupWeatherup groupTsang group University of Southampton Raja groupRussell group Wells group Rosalind Franklin Institute WismayerDavis group University…
Dr Peter Wells (UCL, ECR at that time) had one of the Exemplar projects with the Hub in 2013 titled Technical Developments for Probing the Nature of the Active Site and Catalytic Mechanisms. This project hired Dr Emma Gibson (UCL). Technical developments for Probing the Nature of the Active Site and Catalytic…
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) gathers a critical mass of expertise to tackle the world’s biggest challenge – carbon dioxide. Led by The University of Queensland, GETCO2 is a $45M, 7-year collaboration funded by the ARC, university, industry, and government…
The School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol invites applications for a Lecturer in Digital Chemistry for Synthesis. The School is one of the largest, most globally engaged and vibrant Chemistry departments in the UK. Bristol Chemistry has wide-ranging intellectual strength across the entire discipline, a culture of entrepreneurial activity, and an awareness of global impact and…
On the 18th and 19th of December 2023 the UK Catalysis Hub will host its annual winter conference and networking meeting. The Conference will take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The event will be a hybrid event so we will have the option to attend virtually for those who can’t attend in…
A special collection of thematically related manuscripts by UK Catalysis Hub members has been published by the Royal Society in 2023 PCCP Reviews, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, Advance Article. Computational modelling techniques now play a vital role in catalytic science. Atomic and molecular level simulation is used widely and…
When: 11 October 2023, 10:00 – 11:00 BSTWhere: Online Lignin is the only renewable natural resource with abundant aromatics in nature, and it’s highly desirable to develop cheap and efficient catalysts to obtain value-added aromatics from lignin. We initially employed a cheap platinum-like Tungsten carbide catalyst for lignin hydrogenolysis and explored…
Our new newsletter is out now with lots of information on Hub activity over the past year, articles on our new members and current research, events and publications. Read articles on: Read the newsletter at http://ukcatalysishub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Newsletteron2022.pdf
