Welcome Nithin!

Welcome to new postdoc Nithin Suryadevara, who joins us from Mario Ruben’s group in Karlsruhe, Germany.  Nithin will be working on switchable redox-active lanthanoid complexes.

RACI Margaret Shiel Award for Colette

Congratulations to Colette, who has received the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s (RACI) 2022 Margaret Sheil Leadership Award in recognition of her outstanding work in the chemical sciences.

Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship for Marcus

Congratulations to Dr Marcus Giansiracusa, who has been awarded a 2023 Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project:  “Single-Molecule Magnets towards Data Storage and Quantum Computation Applications”, which he will commence in February 2023.

Group prize winners at RACI Victorian Inorganic Postgraduate Symposium

Congratulations to PhD student Zahra Zahir, who won the best talk at last Friday’s RACI Victorian Inorganic Postgraduate Symposium at Swinburne University.  Congratulations also to Jett Janetzki, who won a poster prize.

Science Abroad Travelling Scholarships for Zahra and Jett

Congratulations to Zahra Zahir and Jett Janetzki, who have been awarded Science Abroad Travelling Scholarships to attend the Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism in India in December.

Welcome Tristan

Welcome to Tristan Fischer, who joins us as an exchange student from the Group of Prof Eva Rentschler at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany.  Tristan will be working on dinuclear valence tautomeric complexes as multistate molecular switches.

Congratulations Jett and Zahra!

A big congratulations to Jett Janetzki, who has been awarded a Tom Healy travel award to attend the Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism in India and to Zahra Zahir, who has been awarded an RACI travel award to attend the RACI congress in Brisbane.

Welcome Jonay!

Welcome to new PhD student Jonay González, who joins us from the group of Carolina Sañudo at the University of Barcleona.  Jonay will be working on switchable lanthanoid complexes.

Welcome back Marcus!

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Marcus Giansiracusa, who will be rejoining the group as a post-doc, after completing his MSc with us previously, before a PhD at the University of Manchester with Nick Chilton.  Among other things, Marcus will oversee operation of the new SQUID magnetometer.

ARC Success

Funded ARC Discovery Project:

“Molecular Spin Switching with Earth Abundant Metals”

C. Boskovic, 2022-2024