With the new year starting, Gabriela Garbonova and Bige Bati (ESRs 3 and 4) also start their secondment at POLYKEY! After more than a year of hard work at the University of Birmingham where they have developed new bio-sourced monomers, they will stay for 18 months at POLYKEY to develop innovative polymerisation processes with an […]
Congratulations to our student, Flore Kilens (ESR 1), for being awarded the second prize “UBE Plastics Sustainability Awards” for her master’s thesis, from the Universitat JAUME I. 🏆 In this work entitled “Optimisation of the polycondensation of diols into polyether polyols organocatalyzed by acid-base mixtures”, Flore already investigated more sustainable catalysts for greener polymerisation reactions! […]
NATURE project members have met today for an online project follow-up meeting. It´s hard to believe that we´re reaching the end of Year 2 landmark; time is flying!
Last week the second NATURE network-wide training took place at the University of Birmingham . Dr. Olivier Talon, from Materia Nova (Belgium), imparted a very interesting training entitled ” Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment”. Over 2 days, our ESRs learnt the basics of the LCA metodology. Why is it necessary? How can we perform it? How can […]
After a long visa wait, NATURE ESR1, Flore Killens, and ESR2, Claire Morand, have recently started their secondments at the University of Birmingham, where they will remain for the next 15 months. Happy faces following the ESR reunion!
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 […]