Congratulations to Flore Kilens, NATURE-EID ESR1, for getting one of the best poster awards at GEP-SLAP 2022 conference. Flore presented her recent results on “Screening of Acid-Base Mixtures as Organocatalysts for the Self-Condensation of Diols” Well done to our four ESRs on attending their first conference as NATURE-EID students!
This is an exciting week for our NATURE-EID Early Stage Researchers: Flore, Claire, Bige and Gabriela. They´re all attending GEP-SLAP 2022 conference in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), which will be followed by a workshop on soft skills and a visit to POLYKEY premises on Friday. Enjoy your first conference, ladies!
Members of POLYKEY and University of Birmingham met recently for yet another monthly meeting. The planning of 2022 research and training activities is underway!
Last but not least, we can announce the hiring of our fourth ESR. Bige Bati (ESR4) earned her Master’s Degree at Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) within the Polymer Science and Technology Program. She decided to change her career path to contribute to green chemistry after working at a Petrochemical and Refinery complex for two years. […]
Following with the recruitment of ESRs, University of Birmingham has just hired another NATURE fellow. Gabriela Garbonova (ESR3) completed her Master of Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University, after which she worked on projects targeted towards valorising spent coffee-grounds and developing bio-based materials for commercial shopping bags. She´s now joining UoB as ESR4 to develop nature-like […]
The NATURE family keeps growing! Claire Morand (ESR2) obtained her Master’s degree in Polymer Chemistry at ENSCBP Bordeaux (France) in 2020. She is driven by curiosity about the natural world and is passionate about the utilization of natural products for high performance material applications. She´s recently joined POLYKEY as ESR2, where her PhD project targets […]
We are thrilled to welcome the first of four Early Stage Researchers to our project! Flore Kilens (ESR1) obtained a double Master’s degree from the University of Strasbourg (France) and the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in Polymer Science. Guided by a deep concern for the current challenges facing the plastics industry, she aims […]
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, funder of the NATURE project, will continue providing opportunities for researchers and organisations under Horizon Europe, the new EU Research and Innovation programme for the period 2021-2027. Researchers and organisations are invited to an online event on 23/03/2021 at 9:00 – 12:30 CET to learn about MSCA under the […]
Members of POLYKEY, University of Birmingham and UPV/EHU are meeting today for the first time since the project started. The pandemic made NATURE kick-off go virtual, but it will not stop us from progressing… the planning of our first project activities is about to start 🙂