#Graduate open events are taking place this Jan & Feb: 🟣 online open days; 🟣 in-person open evening; 🟣 risk, disaster & humanitarian careers event. Browse/register now: bit.ly/4pt3PMM. @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @statisticsucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social

🔓Take a look at the work behind this week's inside front cover by Jeremy K. Cockcroft and colleagues in which they explore non-covalent interactions in binary aromatic complexes. 💡👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... 📍 @uclchemistry.bsky.social 🧪

What makes this special? 👩‍🎓 Co-created with MSc students at @uclchemistry.bsky.social 📚 Builds practical skills + systems thinking 🌍 Open science resources for global classrooms Students aren’t just learning. They are co-authors of solutions. ▶️ Videos: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...

#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 17 🎄 Sneak peak into multidisciplinary Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL East that's used by MSc Sustainable Chemistry students: www.youtube.com/shorts/XYdwk... @uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemistry #lab #laboratory #UCLEast #StudyUCL #sustainable #sustainability

On Day 16 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we highlight the discovery of #phosphorene #nanoribbons and their potential for next-generation #electronics (a study involving Professor Chris Howard of UCL Physics & Astronomy and Dr @clancylab.bsky.social of @uclchemistry.bsky.social): www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

New pre-print! Giorgio Volpe, Rob Malinowski, and myself discuss the possibilities of making materials from droplets that can move, process information, and make decisions collectively. @livunisps.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2512.13425 #chemsky

On Day 12 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we share some #BTS from The Royal Society’s documentary on #KathleenLonsdale filmed at @ucl.ac.uk & featuring Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Kathleen Lonsdale’s student Prof Mike Glazer 👩‍🔬 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf....

This year the Dean of our Faculty Prof Ivan Parkin celebrated his 60th birthday 🥳 On Day 7 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we’re sharing the celebratory Symposium where Prof Parkin presented his adventures & discoveries in #chemistry & #MaterialsScience: www.youtube.com/shorts/Msw4E... @uclchemistry.bsky.social

On Day 5 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we look back at one of our favourite summer events - #undergraduate #OpenDays 🤩 www.youtube.com/shorts/p1s6H... #UCLOpenDays #OpenDay #StudyUCL #campus #study #class #lab @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

On Day 3 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're looking back at the annual Technical Staff Showcase 🌎 Pictured are just some of the cutting-edge research and equipment from our amazing UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory and UCL Chemistry techs! Always inspiring ✨ @uclchemistry.bsky.social #space #science

Are you looking for an exciting project to develop novel wavefunction theory for open-shell ground and excited states in molecules? We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25. Find out more at www.hughburton.com www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR288/r...

#Phd project available to join my group and Prof Nguyen T.K. Thanh's group at @uclchemistry.bsky.social on the #CDT in #Engineering Solutions for #Antimicrobial #Resistance to work on electrokinetic and plasmonic technologies for lateral flow assays. shorturl.at/XxeXA Apply by 12th Jan

A speedy new scan, developed by Prof Erik Arstad @uclmedsci.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social and colleagues and described in a @nejm.org research letter, reveals overactivity in adrenal glands and could improve how millions with high blood pressure are treated www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...

Excited state preparation on a quantum computer through adiabatic light-matter coupling @uclchemistry.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.22324

On Day 2 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we look at a study which discovered that "#space #ice" is less like #water than we thought ❄️: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... @uclchemistry.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share the launch of RECOMPENSE, a project co-created with @uclchemistry.bsky.social students and funded by a @rsc.org Sustainable Laboratories Grant. 🔗 Learn more about the project: website: recompenseproject.com YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...

Congratulations to 2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship winner, Dr Guanjie He from University College London 👏 Read our interview with our winner here 🔗 blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/11/0... Watch Guanjie's Lectureship talk at Singapore Scientific Conference on 8 December👉 singaporesciconf.org

From UCL #PhD student to Professor in #Materials #Chemistry and #Engineering at UCL Chemistry - learn about Guanjie He's research, industry collaborations and role in UCL's upcoming bicentenary: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200 @uclenterprise.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome alumni, staff and PhD students to the annual UCL Chemistry Lab Dinner, 21 November 2025 to be held at the Memoir Club (former Ambassadors Hotel). Book here: onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

The Department Celebration begins! Here's @clairecarmalt.bsky.social ready to welcome all our staff and students to the new academic year!

Congratulations to Lana Rawlings from the Palgrave group on winning the @uclchemistry.bsky.social Ramsay Medal for the best graduating PhD student in the department #chemsky

This afternoon we had the annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social Ramsay Medal symposium during which the winner of the Ramsay Medal for the best graduating PhD student in the department is decided #chemsky

Happy first day of the new academic year. Fantastic to welcome all the new undergraduate chemistry students to the department @uclchemistry.bsky.social this morning. Looking forward to meeting all the new postgraduate students later today!

What a lovely way to spend the evening seeing all our @uclchemistry.bsky.social students graduate. Lots of happy faces, clapping & great views from the Royal Festival Hall. Nearly 20K steps done due to the underground strike but it was worth it 🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For decades, scientists have considered the main type of ice in space to be completely disordered, like liquid water. A new study by Prof Christoph Salzmann, Dr Michael B Davies @uclmaps.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social and colleagues upends that assumption, finding it contains tiny crystals

The end of the UCL Technical Showcase, celebrating fab #technicans who create + enable daily! #technicansmakeithappen @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclmedsci.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social

Some shots from #OpenDay two! Featured: @uclchemistry.bsky.social odour #experiment, @statisticsucl.bsky.social taster on #Bayesian #statistics, learning about angular #momentum with UCL Physics & Astronomy, and exploring #maths for #finance with UCL Mathematics 💡 #UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk

Congratulations to Professor Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social and Dr Guanjie He on being honoured by the @rsc.org for work on unusual but important DNA structures and for developing safer, greener batteries @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

🎉 Today we reveal the 2025 RSC Prize winners! 🎉 Celebrating excellence across research, diversity, tech roles, apprentices and partnerships. Join us in congratulating the remarkable individuals and teams advancing chemistry for society. buff.ly/K2un4O1 #Chemistry #ChemSky

Congratulations to Dr Guanjie He who has received the @rsc.org Harrison‑Meldola Memorial Prize! www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Learn all about how exciting an #OpenDay can be with @uclchemistry.bsky.social student Mayukh. Find out more about #lab tours and exploring the #campus. Be sure to wear your comfy shoes, and see you this Fri/Sat! www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #UCLOpenDays

A new book on #molecular #dynamics (MD) by Prof Peter Coveney & Dr Shunzhou Wan (both @uclchemistry.bsky.social), which combines new probabilistic interpretation with cutting-edge simulations & highlights the role of MD in drug discovery, materials design & beyond: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

How do startups shape scientific progress? We put this key question to Stefan Howorka @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk his perspective offers valuable insights. Stay tuned! youtu.be/tirxhzsDmF0

UCL Chemistry Hackathon 2 is running 22nd & 23rd July. How to make Lab Environments FAIR? See www.inator-project.org/Events/event... for details

Have you got your ticket for our in-person #Undergraduate #OpenDays on 27 and 28 Jun? Join us to find out everything you need to know about what it's like being a UCL student: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social

Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor) London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️ Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀 #chemsky 🧪

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

How did life on Earth begin? 🌍🧬 New #LMBResearch from Phil Holliger’s group, including James Attwater (now @uclchemistry.bsky.social‬‬ @uclnews.bsky.social) shows how pH-freeze-thaw cycles enables RNA self-replication, overcoming a key evolutionary hurdle.‬ Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Chemists at @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social and @mrclmb.bsky.social have demonstrated for the first time how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth – a key process in the origin of life www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Chemical Research, and the kind of cutting-edge research you could be taking part in on this programme. 30th May 2025, 10:30-11:00 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Sustainable Chemistry programme, and hear how to tackle the major global challenges of today and tomorrow. 19th May 2025, 10:00-10:30 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Published today! Molecular Dynamics: Probability & Uncertainty by Peter Coveney & Shunzhou Wan, a new novel exploration of molecular dynamics simulations through the lens of advanced probabilistic methodologies. Order direct from OxUniPress

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Materials for Energy and Environment, and the kind of cutting-edge research you could be taking part in on this programme. 12th May 2025, 10:30-11:00 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Our work on lactonase biocatalysts is finally out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congratulations to our team (Jingyue and Michele) @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and pur collaborators at CNR Milan and Zymvol. #biocatalysis #greenchemistry #sulfur onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

One #scholarship of £63,000 is available to assist a student from #Jordan, #Lebanon, #Palestine or #Syria who has applied to study MSc #Sustainable #Chemistry or MSc Advanced #Materials #Science ( #Sustainability)! Apply by 8 May: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... @uclchemistry.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce the Bseisu-UCL Scholarship, offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation for applications for MSc in Sustainable Chemistry. Open for candidates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. Deadline 8 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

I'm really excited that ACS Bio & Med Chem Au has made me one of the 2024 Rising Stars in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry! So much credit goes to my group past and present ❤️ 🧬 What a fantastic list of people to be included with: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New paper out in JCIS 🚀 Check out how surface conduction in #microfluidics #diffusiophoresis enables passive and continuous separation of #nanoparticles with identical chemistry but different surface charge group concentrations @uclchemistry.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I you (a) like really fancy AFM, (b) like 2D nanomaterials, and/or (c) need a PDRA job in the near future, then boy do I have good news for you. Advert is now open for an 18 month PDRA position in my group in UCL, London. Closing date 20th May, informal email inquiries encouraged #chemsky #nanosky