School of Chemical Sciences
Seminar Series & Chemistry Events
The 8th Annual Chemistry Day was held on the 19th May 2023, with talks from staff and students in the School. Prizes were also awarded to top undergraduate and postgraduate speakers, as well as poster presenters. Check out the slideshow below.
School of Chemical Seminar Series
The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2022/23 is provided below. Contact Dr Ruairí Brannigan for the Zoom link for virtual seminars.
| Date: | Speaker: | Seminar title: | Location: |
| 22nd September 2022 | Prof. George Christou |
Single-Molecule Magnets and other Magnetic Molecules on ‘Molecular Nanoparticles’: A Molecular Model Approach to SMMs on Supports |
XG14 |
| 13th October 2022 | Dr Ruchi Gupta | Novel Optical Biosensors with Integrated Sample Manipulation | XG14 |
| 10th November 2022 | Prof. Rick Relyea | Fresh Water Salinization; From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions | HG17 |
| 24th November 2022 | Dr Peter Byrne | Activation of alcohols and CO2 toward reactions with nucleophiles for organic synthetic applications | XG14 |
| 10th March 2023 | Prof. Sally Price | Can we predict how pharmaceuticals will crystallize? | XG14 |
| 31st March 2023 | Dr Mikhail Filatov | Photosensitizers with Charge Transfer-Mediated Intersystem Crossing: Design and Application | XG14 |
| 19th May 2023 | Dr Loanda Cumba | From electrochemical detection of psychoactive substances to (bio)ink formulation | SA101 |
The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2021/22 is provided below.
| Date: | Speaker: | Seminar title: | Location: |
| 21st October 2021 | Dr David O'Connor | Monitoring and Modelling of Primary Biological Aerosol Particles | Zoom |
| 28th October 2021 | Dr Ruairí Brannigan | Pragmatic Monomer Design and Synthesis of Advanced Materials | Zoom |
| 4th November 2021 | Dr Joaquin Klug | Using Computational Chemistry to Study the Interaction Between Lipid Membranes and Nanomaterials | Zoom |
| 11th November 2021 | Dr Loanda Cumba | 2D and 3D (bio)sensor platforms for emerging applications from on- and in-body sensing to energy storage and conversion | Zoom |
| 18th November 2021 | Dr Hasim Ibrahim | New Ways of Making Bonds with the Main Group | Zoom |
| 24th November 2021 | Dr Susan Kelleher | The Fabrication of Naturally-Inspired Polymeric Nanostructured Biomaterials | Zoom |
| 17th February 2022 | Prof. Robert Forster | Wireless Electrochemistry: From Disease Biomarkers to Waste Water | Zoom |
| 3rd March 2022 | Dr Kieran Nolan | Teaching old molecules new tricks | Zoom |
| 31st March 2022 | Dr Nessan Kerrigan | Asymmetric Catalysis as a New Route to Therapeutic Prostaglandins and Nucleosides | Zoom |
| 14th April 2022 | Dr Aoife Morrin | Harnessing the Scent Disease for Wearable Biodiagnostics | Zoom |
| 28th April 2022 | Prof. Fiona Regan | The chemical cocktail in water – analytical challenges and environmental data | Zoom |
| 26th May 2022 | Prof. Silvia Giordani | How does a nano-onion become a sniper? | Zoom |