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December 2024

09/12/24

Congratulations to Monica for passing her viva today in record time, we are so proud of you Dr C! The group celebrated with an office party and a lovely dinner in Leith. We are delighted that Monica is staying in the group for the time being to continue her research.

05/12/24

The group went out for our annual Christmas celebration with the Pulham Group for some axe throwing (!) followed by dinner at the Salisbury Arms. Happy Christmas from the Morrison group!

September 2024

30/09/24

Monica and Heather have returned from another successful trip to ISIS, with time on the TOSCA instrument to perform inelastic neutron scattering measurements. Big thanks to Dr Jeff Armstrong and Dr Svemir Rudic at ISIS for their help and support.

August 2024

21/08/24

Congratulations to the new Dr O'Connell-Danes for successfully passing his viva, with no corrections! He is imminently away to Kyoto University, Japan on a Royal Society JSPS Fellowship, and we couldn't be more excited for him. We'll miss you Joe!

June 2024

26/05/24

To cap off a busy month of conferences, the group attended the 54th Universities of Scotland Inorganic Chemistry (USIC) Conference, held at the University of Edinburgh. Heather was a member of the organising committee this year and was very happy that the two days of very interesting talks, including Prof. Ludmilla Steier, Dr. David James from Thermofisher Scientific and a careers panel also featuring Prof. Gill Reid (RSC), Dr. Ross Gordon (of Johnson Matthey and formally of UoE!) and Dr. Alan Wiles (ScotChem) all went extremely well.

25/06/24

Congratulations to the new Dr. Edmund Morris on passing his PhD viva today! We are all delighted for him and had a great time celebrating. We wish Edmund the best of luck starting his Post Doc with Prof. Pulham and Prof. Campopiano, although he is remaining in the office so we don't have to say goodbye just yet luckily.

20/06/24

The group had a great few days attending the International Explosives Conference in Edinburgh. 

08/06/24

Prof. Morrison, Prof. Pulham and the Morrison and Pulham groups returned today from the Energetic Materials Gordon Research Conference in Maine, USA. All group members presented posters, and Monica and Heather also gave talks. Shout out to Harvey for getting a first place ribbon for his seminar poster! The group had a week of very interesting talks and poster sessions, as well as a great opportunity for making new connections with institutions across the USA and the world. It was also great to catch up with previous Morrison group member, Dr. Adam Michalchuk, and listen to his interesting talk.

April 2024

20/04/24

The Morrison and Pulham groups have just returned from a few days in Pardubice, Czech Republic, attending the New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials (NTREM) conference. Heather presented a talk (as did Aaron, Akachai and Ash from the Pulham group) and Harvey presented his first poster, winning first prize! The whole group had a great time.

March 2024

11/03/24

Congratulations to Imogen (the new Dr. Christopher!) on successfully completing her viva! The group had a great time celebrating. We wish her all the best in her teaching career.

December 2023

11/12/23

Happy Christmas from the Morrison group! Today the group headed out for a festive celebration, complete with laser tag and a delicious dinner at Browns. 

08/12/23

Today, members of the Morrison and Love groups were lucky enough to go on a trip to Dundee to meet with Professor Sandra Wilson, Emeritus Professor of ecological metal design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (part of the University of Dundee). We were able to have a tour of the college and see some of the amazing jewellery and art that can be made from precious metals reclaimed by processes researched in the group, as well as have a go at electroforming and casting. Here are some of the wax models that we made to be cast in recycled copper!

October 2023

25/10/23

Congratulations to Andrew and Jack for passing their vivas in the past couple of weeks! We are so proud of their fantastic work and wish them all the best in their new positions. Jack has started a postdoc in the Dawson group at Newcastle University, while Andrew is continuing his work in precious metal recovery.

05/10/23

Monica and Heather have just returned from 3 days at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where they were performing INS measurements on the TOSCA instrument. They are very grateful for the help and support of Dr Svemir Rudic at ISIS and had a great trip!

September 2023

04/09/23

Welcome back to Harvey who has stayed in the group to continue the work he carried out towards lead-free double based propellants during his MChem project! Also welcome to Jess who has joined the group to study the behaviour of platinum salts.

August 2023

Congratulations to Jack and Andrew for submitting their theses!

July 2023

28/07/23

The Morrison and Pulham groups had dinner this evening at Mother India Cafe to say goodbye to the wonderful Lisette who is moving to Manchester ahead of starting her teacher training! We are so proud of her but we will miss her very much.

June 2023

23/06/23

Morrison group members headed to the University of Edinburgh's Firbush Outdoor Centre on Loch Tay for a few days this week for the annual Inorganic section trip! We were extremely lucky with the weather and had a fantastic time participating in activities like sailing, kayaking, windsurfing and paddle boarding. Big thanks to Carole and the rest of the organisers for a wonderful few days, and a shoutout to group member Joe for his great workshop on using the Blender software!

20/06/23

Carole, Andrew, Jack, Susanna and Heather headed to Glasgow for the Scottish Computational Chemistry Symposium 2023. They had a great day listening to some really interesting talks; Jack, Susanna and Heather presented posters in the poster session and Heather came away with a runner-up prize in the poster presentation! All-round successful day and a big thanks to the organisers at the University of Glasgow.

06/2023

Welcome back to Joe who has returned from three months working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, as part of a collaboration between Edinburgh and ORNL to investigate transuranium supramolecular chemistry as a method for separating actinides.