Congratulations to our Faraday Poster Symposium 2023 Prize Winners
On 10 November 2023, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Burlington House, London, hosted the first Faraday Community Poster Symposium, celebrating the ground-breaking research being undertaken across physical chemistry. The event brought together PhD students, Post-doctoral researchers and early career researchers in industry.
Prizes were awarded for best and runner up PhD poster and best post-doctoral poster, judged by peer review, alongside a Participants Poster prize, voted for by delegates.
We spoke to our Prize Winners about their experience at the first Faraday Community Poster Symposium.
Congratulations to our poster prize winners:
Best post-doctoral poster prize winner
Maksymilian Roman, University of Liverpool
For the poster entitled "Radical collisions with liquid surfaces: from pure sources to scattering mechanisms”
"I thoroughly enjoyed the event, the flash presentations worked particularly well and I hope the format of poster-only conferences will become more popular. I'm happy that people were interested in my work on gas-liquid scattering - this is a vast field that's relatively understudied, so I hope I convinced people that it's a fascinating area of research. My current work regarding magnetic control of molecular beams will be crucial in unlocking new techniques of studying the gas-liquid interface and we are close to incorporating it in a scattering experiment”
Best PhD poster prize winner
Lorrie Jacob, University of Cambridge
For the poster entitled "Improving sulfur chemistry over the ocean: developing and evaluating a DMS mechanism”
“I am very grateful to the RSC Faraday community for awarding me this prize; it was a tough competition with many amazing posters and research! Winning the best PhD poster prize has been a big encouragement to me. It is fantastic that people find my research interesting!
I very much enjoyed the ECR poster symposium, where I could connect with a range of researchers that I hadn't had a chance to meet before and learn about their research. I also enjoyed the 1-minute flash poster presentation; it provided a great overview of everyone's research. As I am in the third year of my PhD, I am looking towards wrapping up my PhD, and exploring my options post submission. An event like this helps me connect with the community and see what options are out there. The career panel was especially helpful for this.”
Runner-up PhD poster prize winner
Seb Jackson, Heriot-Watt University
For the poster entitled “Ultrashort, Deep-Ultraviolet Pulses by Resonant Dispersive Wave Emission from Hollow Capillary Fibres for Time-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging”
"The Faraday symposium was an amazing experience to liaise with peers and professors at the interface of chemistry and physics. The buzzing energy of the meeting was great and the excitement of everyone sharing their work was evident. I would recommend the symposium to anyone in our field who has new research to share or would like to learn about the amazing breadth of work undertaken across the UK. I was very grateful and surprised to win the runner up PhD poster prize as the standard and quality at the event was extraordinarily high. Meetings like the inaugural Faraday poster symposium give our field the feeling of community and long may it continue!"
Participants poster prize winner
Congratulations to our participants prize winner, voted for by attendees at the Poster Symposium:
Jianghan Tian, University of Bristol
For the poster titled “The Microphysics of Surrogates of Exhaled Aerosols from the Upper Respiratory Tract”
“Attending the Faraday Community Poster Symposium was a great opportunity for me to communicate with researchers who are working on a range of exciting topics in the physical chemistry field from different universities and build up academic networks. And the venue was very impressive - it was my very first time visiting the Royal Society of Chemistry.
I am very excited to receive the participant's prize at the conference, it means that my research has gained attention from other researchers, and I am also the only one who is presenting physical chemistry research that is contributing to the airborne disease transmission topic. I am very interested in the airborne disease transmission field, and I am looking forward to building up more skills and networks, participating in more exciting research, and solving more COVID-19-related puzzles.”
Our Prize Funders
We would like to gratefully thank the sponsors of the Participation Prize; the RSC Journals Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Faraday Discussions.
We would like to thank this year’s poster judges:
- Prof. Andrew Mount (FCPC President-Elect)
- Prof. Alice Thorneywork
- Prof. Helen Fielding
- Prof. Elena Besley (FCPC council member)
- Dr Cristina Trujillo
- Dr Simon Port (FCPC Council member and Industrial Physical Chemistry Interest Group representative)
Our thanks to sponsors of the event, RSC Industrial Physical Chemistry Group (IPCG).
