Latest News from the Symes Group
February 2025 - Mark features in C&I magazine talking about decoupled electrolysis.
July 2024 - Lukman and Shaun have been selected for the Aqualunar Challenge, and have featured in The Guardian and The Herald newspapers!
May 2024 - Congratulations to Halilu Sale, who has passed his PhD viva
May 2024 - Mark features on BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Show, talking about green hydrogen (starting at 1h 30 mins).
October 2023 - Welcome to Shaun Fletcher, Shuaiwei Cui and Alex Pitman, the Symes group's latest new postgraduate students!
July 2023 - Welcome to David Pickles, the Symes group's latest new PDRA!
January 2023 - Congratulations to Calum Hope, who has passed his PhD viva
November 2022 - Congratulations to Thanasis Stergiou and Patrick McHugh, who have both passed their PhD vivas!
November 2022 - Welcome to Abhishek Rajput, the Symes group's latest new PDRA!
October 2022 - Welcome to Liang Lyu (Wesley), the Symes group's latest new PhD student!
September 2022 - Welcome to Fiona Todman, the Symes group's latest new PhD student!
July 2022 - Thanasis' paper on aniline production is published in Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. and also featured in The Herald!
June 2022 - Welcome to Lukman Yusuf, the Symes group's latest new PDRA!
May 2022 - Beth and Patrick's
paper on low gravity electrolysis
has been selected for the Editors’ Highlights webpage
of recent energy-related research in Nature Communications!
April 2022 - Welcome to Ahmed Aboorh, the Symes group's latest new PhD student!
February 2022 - Beth and Patrick's paper on low gravity electrolysis is published in Nature Communications!
November 2021 - Welcome to Zeliha Ertekin, the Symes group's latest new PDRA, and also to Obeten Mbang Eze, our latest new PhD student!
October 2021 - Welcome to Tingting Zhao, the Symes group's latest new PDRA, and also to visiting PhD student Ekata Saha!
April 2021 - Avi and Mike's article on catalysis in cages in Chemical Science is featured in
Chemistry World!
February 2021 - Welcome to Abdulhai Faqeeh, the Symes group's latest new PhD student!
October 2020 - Welcome to Hannah Dickinson and Hossam Gomaa, the Symes group's latest new PhD students!
March 2020 - Welcome to Halilu Sale, the Symes group's latest new PhD student!
January 2020 - Congratulations to Mike Shipman, who passed his PhD viva on 13th January!
October 2019 - Welcome to the Symes group's latest PhD student, Nada Alhathlaul
July 2019 - Prof. Kamal Ketuly has joined the group for 2 months as a visiting
Professor from the University of Duhok.
June 2019 - Check out Mark's TEDx talk "Does powering the planet have to cost us the Earth?"
here!
February 2019 - Arindam Das joins the group as a visiting researcher from CSIR-CSMCRI in Bhavnagar, India!
December 2018 - Welcome to our new PDRA Avishek Paul!
August 2018 - Check out our new paper on highly reduced polyoxometalates in Nature Chemistry!
May 2018 - Mark is quoted in Chemistry World! Twice!
May 2018 - Check out our recent paper on the role of PCET in nitrite electroreduction in ACS Catalysis. Well done Giacomo and Isolda!
September 2017 - Check out our recent paper in Roy. Soc. Open Sci., which is the cover feature for the September issue!
May 2017 - Congratulations to Isolda, who passed her PhD viva on 2nd May! Well done Dr. Roger!
January 2017 - Congratulations to Isolda and Mike. Your review article is in the inaugural issue of Nature Reviews Chemistry.
October 2016 - Mark is announced as a Royal Society University Research Fellow!
October 2016 - Welcome to the Symes group's new PhD student, Alex Wallace
September 2016 - Welcome to our new project students Blair Collins and Jonathan Wood!
August 2016 - Mark is elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland!
March 2016 - check out our latest paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators' issue!
October 2015 - Congratulations to Isolda, who publishes her first paper in JACS!
Follow this link to see how trace nickel catalyses electrochemical water oxidation.
October 2015 - Welcome to our new PhD student Mike Shipman, and our new project student Theodosia Kefala.
July 2015 - Well done Andrew: your review on nitrogen oxide conversion is published in Chem. Soc. Rev!
Follow this link to read Andrew's review.
October 2014 - Giacomo Cioncoloni, Jonathan Wong and Andrew Timmons all join the Symes Group.
February 2014 - The Symes Group publish their first paper in JACS.
Follow this link to see how first row transition metals can work as electrocatalysts for water splitting at pH < 2!
January 2014 - Mark wins an ERA Foundation entrepreneur award and joins the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub!
29/08/2013 - Isolda Roger joins the Symes Group
We are pleased to announce that the Symes Group's first PhD student will start in October 2013.
20/05/2013 - PhD position available in the Symes Group
The Symes Group is looking to take on a PhD student in September 2013. If you are interested in applying for this position, please send a full CV and a statement saying why you want to work with us to mark.symes@glasgow.ac.uk
20/05/2013 - The Symes Group Website Goes Live!
The Symes Group is now online, with links to the University of Glasgow's pages. The website will continue to be developed over the coming months, so keep checking for updates!
Home. Contact: Dr Mark Symes, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, 01413304416, mark.symes@glasgow.ac.uk.
