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We’re Hiring – Part II!

We have another postdoctoral opportunity available to work in collaboration with the group of Prof. Doug Philp in our fabulous newly refurbished labs! The position is available for up to three years and would suit an…

We’re Hiring!!

We have two fantastic fully funded opportunities to join our group. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, we are establishing a new collaboration with the systems chemistry group of Prof. Douglas Philp. A postdoctoral…

New collaboration! Systems chemistry meets nanomaterials

After nearly 9 years sharing research space, meetings, discussions, and general lab life, it is exciting to be able to formalise a collaboration between the Kay and Philp research groups. We have been awarded funding…

Chemical Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Symposium

Euan presented some of the group’s work at the 2019 RSC Chemical Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Symposium, which was held at UEA, 22-23 July. This annual meeting is a great opportunity to meet researchers working in a…

Graduation 2019

On 26 June, the group’s third Ph.D. candidate officially became Dr Nicolas Marro! It was a pleasure to be there to see Nicolas receive his degree and to meet the Marro family. Despite Euan’s Italian skills being…

May-June Visits and Talks

In the past few weeks, Euan has been describing our latest work on dynamic covalent nanoparticles to a diverse range of audiences at: The Molecular and Nanoscale Physics group, University of Leeds The 9th Annual…

Merry Christmas 2018!

Merry Christmas to all from the Kay group, and very best wishes for 2019!

Postgraduate Symposium 2018

Well done Rongtian, Edward and Guillaume for three excellent presentations of their research at the annual Postgraduate Symposium on 5-6 December. Particular congratulations go to Edward for picking up one of the…

Visiting Speaker

Last Friday (30/11/18), we enjoyed an entertaining and very informative seminar on gold nanoclusters by Dr Giovanni Salassa from Thomas Bürgi’s group at University of Geneva. Thanks for giving up some of your day off…

Congratulations Dr Marro!

Very well done to our newest Ph.D. – Dr Nicolas Marro, who passed his viva on Friday 16 November. Thanks to David Fulton (Newcastle) for giving his time and expertise as external examiner. Hopefully Nicolas is not…