Many congratulations to Matija for the award of his PhD on the ‘Development of Novel High Energy Cluster Ion Beam Methodology for Molecular Analysis and Imaging‘. Thanks to the external examiner Prof Mel Bailey from The University of Surrey and internal examiner Dr Drupad Trivedi. Matija will be joining the SIMS group led by Dr Felicia Green at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Well done Matija and good luck!
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Welcome Akhila
Akhila’s PhD project will explore the novel application of mass spectrometry imaging technologies to measure improved uptake, distribution and metabolism of crop protection products in leaves and plants, addressing global challenges in food security. The project is co-funded with Syngenta and the BBSRC.
Welcome Abdulrhman
The world urgently needs better battery technology to rapidly move towards a low‐carbon society. However, commercially‐available batteries currently do not store enough energy, have limited working lifetimes, and are too expensive to make large‐scale electrification viable. To design improved batteries, a better understand of chemical processes inside a battery during charging and discharging is needed. This requires measuring the flow of ions and electrons across multiple interfaces, buried within the battery. Abdulrhman’s PhD project will develop methodologies to study these interfaces using secondary ion mass spectrometry and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The project is co-supervised by Dr Alex Walton.
Welcome Matija
We welcome a new PhD student, Matija Lagator from Serbia. Matija will work on the new J105-SIMS instrument. His project is entitled ‘Development of Novel High Energy Cluster Ion Beam Methodology for Molecular Analysis and Imaging’.
Dr Afnan Alnajeebi
Congratulations to Afnan on the award of her PhD entitled ‘Comparison of cluster primary ion beams for quantitative biomolecular SIMS analysis’.
Welcome to John
We welcome John Medland to the group as a PDRA on the new multiplexed ToF-SIMS project. John joins us from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
MPhil for Andres
Congratulations to Andres on the award of his MPhil degree. We look forward to welcoming him back to Manchester very soon to study for a PhD. Hasta la vista, Andres!
Dr Joanna Denbigh
Congratulations to Jo on successfully completing her PhD ‘Lipidomic and Metabolomic Analysis of Biological Response Mechanisms in Cancer Cells: A Multidisciplinary Approach’.
Jo starts a post-doc in the area of mass spectrometry imaging in collaboration with Adam McMahon’s group at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre.
Welcome to Andres
Welcome to Andres Galindo who joins the group to study biotechnology applications of ToF-SIMS and DESI. Andres is co-supervised by Prof Sabine Flitsch.
Welcome to Samar
Samar Aldossari joins the group to work on NanoSIMS imaging of cells. She will be jointly supervised by Dr Katie Moore in the School of Materials.
Welcome Ewa!
We welcome Ewa Szula to the group as a new PhD student working on the metabolic profiling of mammalian cells.
Welcome Kat!
We welcome Katherine Hollywood to the group as a post-doctoral researcher. Kat will be working on the application of single cell metabolite profiling to optimisation of stem cell bioprocessing as part of a collaboration with Alan Dickson, Karen Cosgrove, Mark Dunne and Roy Goodacre.
Welcome Huriyyah!
We welcome Huriyyah Alturaifi to the group as a new PhD student working on polyatomic SIMS.
Farewell and Good Luck to John
We bid fond farewell to John Fletcher who is taking up a fellowship position at the University of Gothenburg. John joined the group as a PhD student in 2001 and progressed to Post-Doc in 2004.
In Gothenburg he will be collaborating with Andrew Ewing’s group who have a range of SIMS instrumentation and will be working on biological cells and tissue. We expect to retain a strong collaboration with John.
Goodbye and Good Luck!
Welcome back Felipe
This week we welcome back Felipe Kessler from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil who will be with us for 12 months as part of his PhD training in SIMS. Felipe, some of you will recall was with us for a short visit in the Autumn. Those with longer memories will be interested to know that Felipe’s PhD supervisor is Daniel Weibel who was a Post-Doc in the group in 2000-2002.