Congratulations to our former postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tumpa Gorai for receiving prestigious DST Inspire Faculty fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Tumpa joined CSIR-IICT to carry out independent research. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
Many congratulations are in order for Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson as he was awrded the highly prestigious ICI David Brown Award at the 2023 Inorganic Ireland Symposium!
This award was established in 2014 to honour Professor David Brown of University College Dublin in recognition of his enormous contribution to inorganic chemistry both nationally and internationally. This award later began to be presented to a colleague who has made an outstanding contribution to inorganic chemistry.
Professor Gunnlaugsson also delievered a fine talk at the symposium, titled ‘Tails of two endeavours! The application of lanthanides and Ru(II) in the formation of luminescent supramolecular systems.’ As always, Professor Gunnlaugsson continually contributes to the chemical research field with so much zeal and we couldn’t be more thankful for his efforts. Once again, congratulations on this great achievement!
After many months of hard work our very own Tomas Gudmundsson and Patrick Manning have been awarded their postgraduate certificates in statistics. This is such an important toolkit for any sort of researcher to have. It will be very interesting to see how they implement their newly developed skills in their current and future work!
Members of the Gunnlaugsson Group were delighted to attend MASC 2022 in the University of Nottingham. A huge thanks to this year’s host, Dr. Ben Pilgrim, for organising a great conference! A fantastic arrangement of talks and posters were presented, representing the scope of the field.
Well done to Dr. Ena Luis, Dr. Helen O’Connor, Patrick Manning, Shauna Donohoe and Tómas Arnar Guðmundsson for presenting their posters, showcasing current work in the group.
Huge congratulations to Tómas for another award for his poster “Engineered Supramolecular Metallogels as Luminescent 3D-Printable Materials.”
A huge congratulations to Deirdre McAdams, who was selected as the Overall Winner of the Postgraduate Teaching Award 2021. During her PhD, Deirdre has been teaching Biology on the Trinity Access Programmes’ Foundation Course for Higher Education and is passionate about student development and engagement.
Prof. Martine Smith, Dean of Graduate Studies, commended Deirdre for her “commitment to fostering student learning, awareness of her own professional development and her focus on empathy and engagement with a wide range of students.” Deirdre expressed her passion for teaching through a three part process involving a written application, a short video speaking to her teaching practices, and a formal interview. Many strong applications were received from across every discipline in College. Prof. Smith remarked, “to be a winner from such a strong field of candidates is truly impressive, so congratulations.” Well done, Deirdre!
The Gunnlaugsson Group is very happy to have been a part of the 7th MSMLG conference. Many many thanks to the organisers and this years host, Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson for making all of this possible. A fantastic arrangement of talks and posters were presented throughout by researchers around the world.
Well done to the group members who presented their posters (Laura Ramírez Lázaro, Tómas Arnar Guðmundsson, Dr. Ena Luis, Patrick Manning, Dr. Helen O’Connor, Deirdre McAdams and Shauna Donohoe) and delivered presentations (Dr Oxana Kotova, Dr. Adam Henwood and past member June Lovitt).
Congratulations to Tómas Arnar Guðmundsson for his award in this years poster competition. His poster titled “3D-printing supramolecular gel-based chemosensors for the detection of metal ions.”
Fourth year student Emanuele Cappello has been awarded with the Intel Bursary for master and last year PhD Students! The Award, open to students from the schools of Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science, is meant to connect students nearing the end of their academic course and willing to join corporate world with a solid corporate reality like Intel Ireland. Last year 10 bursaries were awarded to Trinity Students out of 40 applications. Students awarded with the bursaries will join a mentoring program in Intel, acting like a bridge between Academia and Corporate.
Congratulations Emanuele!
Dr. Oxana Kotova gave an oral presentation at Inorganic Dublin Symposium in CRANN at Trinity College Dublin on “Discrete white-light-emitting Ln-based heterometallic assemblies in solution” which has been published in Chemical Science.
As part of the Autumn Commencements at Trinity College Dublin, Dr Sam Bradberry was conferred with his PhD degree in the Public Theatre.
Sam’s thesis, “Design and development of novel self-assembled luminescent lanthanide complexes in solution and in responsive soft materials” and the work that lead to its realization has been of great value for the TG Group, and we as a whole wish to congratulate him for his achievement. Great Job Sam!
Gunnlaugsson Group, Trinity College Dublin 