ScotCHEM ECR seminar series

If you are a PhD student, a post-doctoral researcher or an early career independent researcher we invite you to our ECR seminar series. This national seminar series is the perfect opportunity for early career researchers (in the broadest sense) to present their research to a wide audience.

The series runs every 3rd Tuesday of the month. During each 1 hour event you will have the opportunity to hear a 15-minute research talk from talented researchers across the ScotCHEM network. The plenary talks (35min) will focus either on:

• Career advice delivered by people who have used their Chemistry postgraduate degree to get to where they are now. Giving a more personal outlook on the very wide range of careers that highly skilled Chemistry PhDs can move on to (academic research, chemical industry, publishing, teaching, marketing etc.

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• A longer research talk selected through abstract submission or by invitation from the organising committee. These will span the very extensive areas of interest that our Network represents to provide not only insights into your own field but also access to talks that can enrich your research ideas by tapping into all areas of chemical science.

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Upcoming events:

• 19/10/21 Dr Kathryn Toghill (University of Lancaster) – Metal co-ordination compounds for redox flow batteries
• 21/09/21 Dr Adam Kirrander (University of Edinburgh) – A new way to observe matter and chemical dynamics
• 16/02/21 Research talk to be confirmed and Dr Amanda Jarvis (University of Edinburgh)
• 19/01/21 Research talk to be confirmed and Dr Sarah Walker (University of Strathclyde)
• 15/12/20 Research talk to be confirmed and Dr Stephen Wallace (University of Edinburgh – Exploring (and expanding) Microbial Chemistry for Chemical Synthesis)
• 17/11/20 Mr Arron Burnage (Heriot-Watt University – Mechanistic Study of the Room Temperature Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of an Isobutane σ-Complex in the Solid-State and Dr Anna Slater (University of Liverpool – Developing a research narrative for fellowship applications – going with the flow (chemistry))
• 20/10/20 Mr Maciej Kucharski (University of Edinburgh – Kinetics and Mechanism of Pd(II) X→OH Anion Metathesis in the Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction)  and Dr Marc Reid (University of Bristol – Kinetics, Safety, Psychology…Oh My!)
• 15/09/20 Dr Andrew Parrott (University of Strathclyde – abstract) and Ms Marwa El Yaagoubi (University of Strathclyde – abstract)
• 18/08/2020 Dr Hessam Mehr (University of Glasgow – abstract) and Ms Rebecca Rae (University of Edinburgh – abstract)
• 21/07/2020 Dr Magdalene Chong (University of Strathclyde – abstract) and Dr Helen Smith (NPI manager – Sterling Pharma Solutions)

Call for abstracts:

If you are interested in presenting your research at the national level we invite you to submit an abstract. These will be assessed by our organising committee and you will be notified of the outcome promptly. We welcome submissions for 15 min or 35 min research talks.

Guidelines:

• Abstracts should not be more than a single page of A4
• Talks should be timed for 15 or 35 minute delivery
• Abstract submitted with work by multiple authors (PIs, collaborators etc.) should be submitted with the approval of all named authors

Download the Abstract Template.

All abstracts will be assessed in the spirit of equality and diversity to give fair representation to all.

Please send all submissions to scotchem@st-andrews.ac.uk