Dr Nadal is part of the team selected by the National Institutes of Health(NIH) NCATS Aspire Challenge winners to find an Integrated Solution for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose

A warm welcome to Daniel Malcolm who will is the 1st LVN group member and will be doing his BSc project. His research will be related to isomerism in metal oxide culsters.

Dr Vilà-Nadal will present a contributed talk in the sixth biennial meeting of the international forum “Frontiers in Metal Oxide Cluster Science” .
This FMOCS conference will be held in Corvallis, Oregon, on the West Coast of the United States, from August 19th to August 22nd. 
Looking forward to meet the polyoxometalate community and discuss the recent advances.

Kick-off meeting International Network on Polyoxometalate Science for Advanced Energy Materials, Hiroshima, Japan, July 16th-18th

Dr Vilà-Nadal presented her work in the kick-off meeting for the EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core. This was a great opportunity to meet with old friends and interact with new researchers in the area and establish new interactions.

The 10th and 11th of July Dr Vilà-Nadal represented the Glasgow Polyoxometalate umbrella at CNRS POM-IRN (International Research Network) at CNRS Ile-de-France Gif-sur-Yvette. That was a 2 day meeting to enhance the European network of polyoxometalates, organize future conferences, student exchange, and setting the agenda for the next initiatives.

The 17th June 2019 at the shiny new V&A museum in Dundee Dr Vilà-Nadal took part in a workshop bringing together industrialists, artists and ScotCHEM’s new research leaders. That was an enlightening experience organized by Scotchchem, the meeting   was focussed on innovation, early career researchers (ECR) networking and engagement with industrial contacts.  Laia had the chance to meet with a broad range of fellow ECRs from across Scotland. The workshop gave some insight into how to successfully develop industrial collaborations, and talks by some companies on the how/what/why of their interactions with academics.

Dr. Vilà-Nadal is off to Madrid at her first scientific duty as an independent academic. She has been appointed panel member for grants by Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI (link) the Spanish higher education funding body.