📣 Announcement 📣 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 🏆, given in the memory of John Fossey, goes to both Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg). Congratulations both! (1/4)

Come and join us at Birmingham making cages for catalysis. We have a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home fees only) to start in 2026. Very happy to discuss this project, which can be tailored to suit a candidate's interests. Please get in touch if you are interested #chemsky

📣 PhD position now open for Oct 2026 start based at @imperialchemistry.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/PhDFDF. An interdisciplinary project combining experimental & computational materials discovery in a collaborative Royal Society-funded team. Co-supervised by @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social.

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

📸 What a brilliant day at the MSc in Digital Chemistry and MRes in Advanced Molecular Synthesis Symposium @imperialchemistry.bsky.social ! Thank you to all our students, staff, and guests for making today such a success. 💥🔬 #ImperialChemistry #FutureOfScience #Symposium2025

Well, since it's now official, happy to say I've been promoted to Reader (still Associate Professor while Imperial changes systems) - this is all due to the amazing team of researchers I get to work with, my collaborators and colleagues, so thank you to those who know who they are on here!!!

Congratulations to @jelfschem.bsky.social on her @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship! 🎉 Her work will bridge computation and experiment to unlock synthesisable materials using #AI and automation. Read more ➡️

It was lovely to discuss what we've been up to in relation to using the Opentrons OT-2 platform to teach automation in both our undergraduate & postgraduate chemistry labs and to have it featured as an Education Initiative Case Study on their website - you can read more here:

Big congratulations to Ruiqing 🎉 #proudsupervisor

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

Alchemy Frontier Fund 2025 now open (aichemy.ac.uk/aichemy-fron...). Apply for 2-year projects of up to £1.25m to advance the frontiers of AI for chemistry. Deadline = Sept 12th 2025. Webinar to launch the fund on June 18th. For information, email: [email protected] @ukri.org #EPSRC #AI

📢 Recently published in Chemical Society Reviews (RSC) AIchemy Co-Director Kim Jelfs @jelfschem.bsky.social and Imperial Co-Investigators share cross-disciplinary perspectives on AI’s role in chemistry. 🧪 🤖 💻 Read here ➡️ : buff.ly/Ni67NZJ #AIforChemistry #ChemSci #AIchemy #AcademicPublishing

If you want to know what’s happening in universities with redundancies and job loss, why, and the impacts it’s having, this is a good summary: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

For the avoidance of any doubt: trans women are women. Trans men are men. Anyone presuming to know more about someone’s lived experience than they do is in an unjustifiable position.

We are looking for someone to join us as a part-time laboratory technician at the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) facility, based in Chemistry at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) in White City, to provide technical assistance across ROAR and @aichemyhub.bsky.social

Very happy to share that this work has been accepted in Angew Chem & appreciate the highlight, but as good as my group are, I'm not sure even they could have done all of this & written it up in the 2 weeks between your paper & our preprint, instead this is the result of ~2 years of collaboration 😉

📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Had an excellent visit with the ATLAS and DIGIBAT teams at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Great to see how automation is changing Chemistry for both teams!

Thanks to the teams at ROAR at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and Solve Chemistry for a great day of discussing HTE and automation chemistry! Thanks specifically to Dr Eldosoky for organizing and @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social for the great insights! @solvationsci.bsky.social

What a day!🤖 A huge thank you to everyone who attended our conference on Monday. Your energy, insights, and engagement made it a truly memorable event! A special shoutout to our incredible speakers for sharing their knowledge and sparking such great discussions. Stay tuned for more highlights⬇️

I have also just been reminded by the group at the pub that I am behind on my social media, so here goes a preprint fest:

Congratulations to Dr Ruby Morel on passing her PhD viva today 🎉 Noone is more deserving and watch this space for her papers on porous liquid crystals 🙌 Thanks to @annagslater.bsky.social and @g-craig.bsky.social for examining!

See below survey on #socioeconomic #inclusion, you don't have to be a current UK chemical science undergraduate as long as you did your undergraduate in the UK at some point in your life. #chemsky 🧪

🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

We are recruiting for a postdoctoral Research Associate in Synthetic Chemistry to work in C-H functionalisation. Come join us Imperial! @imperialchemistry.bsky.social 3-year position. Closing: 19-March-2025. shorturl.at/uwERp #Chempostdoc, #CHfunctionalization, #Heterocycles

Congratulations to Dr Francesco Aprile, whose work on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s has led to the discovery of antibodies that may inform new treatments for the disease. His brilliant paper was selected to feature in #BPS2025 Symposium, read more here: www.biophysics.org/news-room/ne...

The RSC Organic Chemistry Community South-East Regional Meeting will be hosted by Imperial Chemistry @imperialchemistry.bsky.social on Friday 28th March 2025 with an excellent speaker line-up. For more details, to register, & submit poster abstract (PhD/PDRAs), see here: www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Upcoming conference: MSML 2025 - 3rd International Seminar on Modelling, Simulation and Machine Learning for the Rapid Development of Porous Materials, Keele University, UK estore.keele.ac.uk/product-cata...

Do you work in the area of digital chemistry, including robotics, high-throughput automation, or all things AI, either in academia or industry? Then please do reach out and put yourselves or your colleagues & group members (including PhDs & postdocs) forward for our webinar series!!!

🚀 AIchemy Conference – Registration Now Open! 🔬🤖 📅 17th March 📍 White City Campus - Imperial - London ✅ Expert insights ✅ Thought-provoking discussions ✅ Networking & research presentations Don’t miss out—secure your spot today! 🔗 https://buff.ly/3ORReD4

Our latest collaborative work led by Aiting Kai & Austin Mroz with @jelfschem.bsky.social, Marc Little & @aicooper.bsky.social is now on ChemRxiv - this organic cage-based porous ionic liquid exhibited melting and a glass phase, CO2 uptake, and its porosity was supported using MD simulations 😃

🔔 Update on Our First Pump-Priming Call We are delighted to share that our pump-priming call has been a tremendous success! The quality and innovation reflected in the proposals have been truly impressive. Our team is reviewing each submission, and we look forward to providing updates soon.

This was such a nice collaboration to be involved in and Gina did a fantastic job - it includes a nice automated high-throughput workflow using the Unchained Labs optimisation sampling reactor (OSR) and an Opentrons Ot-2 for studying the kinetics of this reaction 🥳

After a few days away from work, I've had time to stop & reflect on what has felt like a chaotic & sometimes unproductive year. Juggling a lot of personal stuff with a growing group has meant I have dropped a LOT of balls recently, but looking back, a lot of really good stuff has happened (1/n)

Definitely got FOMO for #MASC2024 this year 😅 But if you do happen to find yourself there and are interested in our latest work on porous liquid crystals or automated high-throughput workflows for molecular organic materials discovery, do check out Ruby Morel's and Aaron Hero Bernardino's posters!