You are warmly invited to a free, one day meeting on homogeneous Earth-abundant metal catalysis (EAMCat1), hosted by the UK Catalysis Hub on the 8th December at the Harwell Research Complex. The confirmed speakers are:

Lutz Ackermann http://www.ackermann.chemie.uni-goettingen.de
Axel Jacobi von Wangelin http://www-oc.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/jacobi/
Ruth Webster http://www.bath.ac.uk/chemistry/contacts/academics/ruth_webster/
Stephen Thomas http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/dr-stephen-p-thomas
Damien Murphy http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38540-murphy-damien
Jonathan Moseley http://www.catsci.com/dr-jonathan-moseley.html

In addition there will be a poster session for those working on all aspects of homogeneous Earth-abundant metal catalysis, either in the academic or end-user sectors. If you wish to submit a poster please email Robin Bedford (r.bedford@bristol.ac.uk) with a title + brief (1-2 sentence) abstract by 15th November.

There are a limited number of tickets available for the complementary conference dinner. For further details and to register for the meeting, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-abundant-metal-catalysis-conference-eamcat-1-tickets-28217334808

Registration will be 10-11 and the programme will finish at 17:45. For details on travel to the Harwell complex, see: http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Directions.html

Hope to see you there!

The new academic year brings new people to our research group (as well as the welcome return of some previous members).

Sanita Tailor and Mattia Manzotti are starting their PhD studies in the group, while Soneela Asghar joins us for a year of a commonwealth ‘split-site’ PhD from Pakistan. Pablo Frieiro is a short-term visiting postdoc from Spain.

Meanwhile, Leyla Lugal, Nimisha Raj Sharma, Jack Roberts, Anna Winnicka and Andrew Horner join the group for their final year undergraduate research projects.