PhD viva: Examiner at Cambridge
Patrick was external examiner for Ningning Gao, alongside internal examiner Prof. Rachel Oliver at the University of Cambridge. Ningning's supervisor is Prof Hannah Joyce.
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PhD viva
A collection of 7 issues
Congratulations to Matthew Thornton!
Congratuations to group co-supervised student Matthew Thornton who passed his viva with minor corrections!
Matt's thesis on "Exploration of Macrocyclic and Protein-Derived Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes Toward the Development of Discrete Molecular Probes" was examined by Dr Stephen Butler (Loughborough) and Dr Imogen Riddell (Manchester).
Congratuations Ruqaiya!
Congratulations to group PhD student Ruqaiya Al-Abri for completing her PhD viva on "Correlative Optoelectronic Measurements for Optimization of Semiconductor Nanolasers". The examiners were Jack Alexander-Weber (University of Cambridge Physics) and David Binks.
Congratulations Nawal!
Congratulations to group PhD student Nawal Al-Amairi on passing her PhD viva with a thesis entitled "Optimisation of Photo- and Particle Detectors using Ultrafast Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy" with minor corrections! Thanks to both examiners: Qiandong Zhuang (Lancaster) and Iain Crowe (Manchester).
Congratulations to Hoyeon Choi!
A huge congratulations to group PhD Hoyeon Choi for successfully defending his thesis today. Hoyeon's examiners were Sam Bayliss (Glasgow) and David Binks (Manchester).
Hoyeon was the fourth postgraduate student through the OMS group, and the first to be impacted by COVID. Nevertheless, he built up a substantial series of
Congratulations to group PhD Stefan Skalsky
A huge congratulations to group PhD student Stefan Skalsky (co-supervised with Prof. Wendy Flavell) who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. Even more impresively, he managed to deal with the challenges of a video-cal based viva.
His examiners were Prof. David Mowbray (Sheffield) and Prof. Mark Dickinson (Manchester).
PhD Viva: Arturo
Arturo Alanis (the first PhD student of the group) had a successful PhD viva today. His thesis examiners were Dr Hannah Joyce (Cambridge) and Dr Jessica Boland (Manchester).
Arturo has already secured a postdoctoral position to start in a few weeks; we’ll be sad to see him go, but