NEWS
We were able to end the year with a fantastic joint Christmas Party with Ifan Stephens’ group! We had delicious Malaysian food thanks to Cempaka, lots of festive fun and even some Karaoke to see the year out. Thanks to Craig and Morven for organising the party and to Magda and Ifan for allowing us to have such a great celebration.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We recently received our automated high-throughput robot for battery assembly for DIGIBAT. See below for a sneak peak at the robot and follow along for continuous updates around the system, thanks to Jingyu the facility manager for his ongoing efforts.
Our group, along with Ifan Stephen’s research group had our annual joint group hike along the Thames in Henley. It was a beautiful day out despite the weather and limited attendance. Thanks especially to Morven for doing such a great job of organising the walk and dinner!
Magda and some group members spent time in Japan meeting collaborators, attending conferences, travelling and seeing the beautiful sights of the country. See Magda’s 10-part summary on X for a detailed run down of the group’s activities, both academic and social - Magda Titirici on X: "One month in Japan
Some of our group members, alumni and close collaborators ran a wonderful stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Future Batt presented to members of the public how we are developing novel batteries from sustainable resources in order to make the world a better place. See below some pictures from the successful event and check out Future Batt’s X page (Future BATT (@FutureBatt) / X) for updates!
Magda has taken up a new role as the Chair of the Publishing Board for the Royal Society of Chemistry!
Many of our group members and collaborators from the VALUED Programme Grant took park in a successful and fruitful workshop. The workshop was intended to develop problem solving skills, open opportunities for collaboration as well as discussing the scientific problems we are facing. Thanks especially to Melanie Lee and Geetanjali, our project managers.
We are very proud to announc that our research group was awarded the “President’s Medal for Excellent Research Team”. This exemplifies all the hard work and dedication of our research group which is led by our brilliant supervisor, Magda. Congratulations to all!
We had 6 PhD graduates this year with 3 of them able to attend the sunny graduation ceremony. Magda also received the President’s Medal for Outstanding Research Team.
Two of our outstanding PhD graduates have been awarded prizes from their departments. Silvia Favero was awarded the 2023 Townsend Prize for outstanding original research in energy engineering from the Chemical Engineering department. Angus Pedersen was awarded the 2023 John Kilner Prize for excellence in research in materials for application in energy conversion from the Materials department. Congratulations both, very well deserved!
Our co-supervised students Connor Wright and Craig Burdis attended the Materials Postgraduate Research Day at Imperial and both won prizes! Connor was awarded the second best public speaker and Craig the best Scientific content on a poster.
Another of our outstanding PhD students have passed their viva with no corrections! That’s 3/3 of our students co-supervised with Ifan Stephens to pass with flying colours. Angus’ contribution to the Titirici group and the Imperial College London network will not end here as he continues his research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow after being awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship.
Huge congratulations to Mengnan on passing her PhD viva. Not only was she a brilliant PhD student but she was a great help to the scientific community by coordinating the Imperial College London Electrochemistry Network, amongst other significant contributions.
We had a great time at our Christmas party and we were privileged to share the festive celebrations with the Stephens group. Happy Christmas to all, from the Titirici group!
We are extremely grateful to have Abdourahmane and Ibrahima visiting from Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Senegal. We look forward to hearing more about what research you are doing and hope to show you a flavour of what we are working on during your short stay with us.
We are excited to welcome four new starters this week: Manuella who is visiting us from Brazil for one year, Emma who is a new research associate and two new PhD students Nihat and Zeynep. Keep an eye out for their profiles to be added, where you can find out their exciting research plans!
Congratulations to Silvia who passed her PhD viva with no corrections! It was great to celebrate with Silvia’s co-supervisor and examiners.
It was great to see Sam’s hard work rewarded by winning a poster prize at the 1st Annual Symposium for Advanced Battery Materials.
We had a great time at the Imperial College Lates outreach event where we had the chance to share our exciting scientific research with members of the public, thanks to those who came along. Our exhibit was focused on how we are able to turn food waste into valuable products such as batteries to power your phone! Thanks Silvia for leading the event and organising, see our promotional video below:
