The Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat), now in its 4th year, was held at Cardiff University on the 1st and 2nd of July 2019. The meeting, organised and chaired by the committee members of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group, aims to bring together researchers working in the expanding field of porous materials, which includes metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic cages, porous organic polymers, polymers of intrinsic microporosity and much more.
The Royal Society of Chemistry was delighted to be a part of the event, sponsoring a number of poster and talk prizes:
• Alexander Thom (University of Glasgow) was awarded the CrystEngComm Poster Prize
• Giulia Schukraft (Imperial College London) was awarded the ChemComm Poster Prize
• Iona Doig (University of Southampton) was awarded the Materials Horizons Poster Prize
• Alex James (University of Sheffield) was awarded the Chemical Science Prize for Best Talk
Congratulations to all of the prize winners!
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| Alexander Thom (left) receiving the CrystEngComm Poster Prize from Ross Forgan (right) | Iona Doig (right) receiving the Materials Horizons prize from Chris Harding (left) |
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| Alex James (left) receiving the Chemical Science prize from Chris Harding (right) | Prize winners at the close of the 4th Annual UK Porous Materials meeting ( Cardiff, 1-2 July 2019) |
Special thanks go to the organizers and committee members of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group:
Dr Thomas Bennett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Andrea Laybourn (University of Nottingham)
Dr Ross Forgan (University of Glasgow)
Dr Darren Bradshaw (University of Southampton)
Dr Tim Easun (Cardiff University)
Dr Timothy Johnson (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre)
Professor Tina Düren
Susan Bourne is the Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD, obtained at the University of Cape Town, was a study of organic inclusion compounds undertaken under the supervision of Professor Luigi Nassimbeni.
Professor C. Malla Reddy (Hyderabad, India, 09 Feb 1975) works in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata (2008 – present). He received his PhD in Crystal Engineering in 2006 from University of Hyderabad, and took up Post-Doctoral Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2007 – 2008). He has been an Honorary Visiting Scientist at the University of Bradford (2015 – 18), a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Mobility Grant, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2017) and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, India. He is a Co-editor of Acta Crystallogr. B and has served as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances during 2015-16 as well as part of our Advisory Board here at CrystEngComm. He also served on the Local Organizing Committee of IUCr2017@Hyderabad, India.
Professor Dr Elena Boldyreva is employed by Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and is the Head of the Chair of Solid State Chemistry of the Novosibirsk State University. She graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1982 and received her PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1988 and her Dr. Sci. in Solid State Chemistry in Russia. Elena Boldyreva is an Honorary Doctor of Sciences of the University of Edinburgh, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Slovenia and a Mameber of the Academia Europea. She was a Humboldt Fellow and have spent many research terms in Germany, UK, Italy, France.
Dr. Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences. After her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008), she worked at Pfizer and then held several postdoctoral positions at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, the University of Amsterdam and Hofmann-La Roche. She arrived to Manchester in 2016 where she has established her own research group in solid state chemistry and crystallisation.
