Faculty of Natural Sciences – Postdocs & Fellows Research Showcase
(Note this is an internal event)
NEW DATE!! Due to rail srikes on the 1 February, the Showcase has been postponed to the 8 March (same time, same location). If you registered to the previous date you do not need to do it again (calendar invitation has been updated)
The Postdocs and Fellows Committee (PFC) from the Faculty of Natural Sciences is hosting a half-day of short presentations to showcase the innovative work from our postdoctoral and fellows’ researchers. This event will include a networking session over light refreshment – please see schedule and confirmed speakers below!
Places are limited, please REGISTER by 7 March 2023.
Schedule of the Showcase, 8 March 2023:
Location: SAFB 122, South Kensington campus
- 13:30 – 14:00 Welcome coffee
- 14:00 – 15:00 Talks session I – each presentation will be of 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes questions
- Julianna Panidi (Chemistry) – Title of talk: Solution Processed Organic Solar Cells from Biorenewable Solvents
- Thomas Pienkowski (Centre for Environmental Policy) – Title of talk: Scaling up Nature Based Solutions for people, climate, and nature: A case study of forest restoration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
- Dhruv Saxena (Physics) – Title of talk: Complex lasers for computing
- Ghita Ghislat (Life Sciences) – Title of talk: Cross-talk between inflammation and autophagy in immune surveillance
- Austin Mroz (Chemistry) – Title of talk: Towards accelerated, experimental-theoretical closed-loop discovery of novel porous liquids
- Jure Tica (Life Sciences) – Title of talk: Engineering a genetic circuit that produces Turing-like periodic patterns in growing colonies of E. coli
- 15:05 – 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30- 16:20 Talks session II – each presentation will be of 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes questions
- Jessie Durk (Physics) – Title of talk: Equitable assessment in physics
- Domenec Ruiz-Balet (Mathematics) – Title of talk: The tragedy of the commons via traveling waves in mean-field games
- David Reger (Chemistry) – Title of talk: Helical nanographenes and their circular polarized luminescence enhancement
- Christina Schoettler (Physics) – Title of talk: The effect of a stellar fly-by on young planetary systems
- Roozbeh H. Pazuki (Life Sciences) – Title of talk: Using physics-informed neural nets in an inverse problem of Turing patterns
- 16:20 – 16:30 Concluding remarks
- 16:30 – 17:30 Networking session over light refreshment
Any queries, please contact Dr Ester Buchaca-Domingo