David Palomas
@davidpalomas.bsky.social
Lecturer (Teaching) in Chemical Sustainability at UCL Chemistry. Interested in #catalysis #GreenChemistry #SustainableChemistry #GreenChemEd #GreenLabs #ChemEd #FlippedClassroom #PBL. 🇪🇸🇬🇧 #ChemSky
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David Palomas
@davidpalomas.bsky.social
· Nov 27
The Green Chemistry feed seems to be working! Use #GreenChemistry #SustainableChemistry #greenchem
and #suschem for your posts. bsky.app/profile/did:...
and #suschem for your posts. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience: Save the date to celebrate together!
The countdown has officially begun! Save the date for UCL Illuminated – a spectacular sound and light experience that will kick off our bicentennial celebrations from 11-13 February 2026.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
I’m thrilled to share the launch of RECOMPENSE, a project co-created with @uclchemistry.bsky.social
students and funded by a @rsc.org Sustainable Laboratories Grant.
🔗 Learn more about the project:
website: recompenseproject.com
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...
students and funded by a @rsc.org Sustainable Laboratories Grant.
🔗 Learn more about the project:
website: recompenseproject.com
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...
Introducing the RECOMPENSE project (shorter version)
YouTube video by RECOMPENSE project
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October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m thrilled to share the launch of RECOMPENSE, a project co-created with @uclchemistry.bsky.social
students and funded by a @rsc.org Sustainable Laboratories Grant.
🔗 Learn more about the project:
website: recompenseproject.com
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...
students and funded by a @rsc.org Sustainable Laboratories Grant.
🔗 Learn more about the project:
website: recompenseproject.com
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@RECOMPENSEp...
🔔 Preprint Alert!
Thrilled to share our new problem-based learning framework for #sustainablechemistry education, where MSc students simulate startup companies to tackle PET recycling, applying circular economy and #greenchemistry principles.
📄 Read the preprint: tinyurl.com/ms74s5fk
Thrilled to share our new problem-based learning framework for #sustainablechemistry education, where MSc students simulate startup companies to tackle PET recycling, applying circular economy and #greenchemistry principles.
📄 Read the preprint: tinyurl.com/ms74s5fk
Problem-Based Learning in Sustainable Chemistry: A Student Startup Model with PET as a Case Study
This paper presents a problem-based learning (PBL) framework designed to enhance sustainable chemistry education through a simulated student startup model. Implemented in the MSc Sustainable Chemistry...
tinyurl.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🔔 Preprint Alert!
Thrilled to share our new problem-based learning framework for #sustainablechemistry education, where MSc students simulate startup companies to tackle PET recycling, applying circular economy and #greenchemistry principles.
📄 Read the preprint: tinyurl.com/ms74s5fk
Thrilled to share our new problem-based learning framework for #sustainablechemistry education, where MSc students simulate startup companies to tackle PET recycling, applying circular economy and #greenchemistry principles.
📄 Read the preprint: tinyurl.com/ms74s5fk
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Do you have an idea that could make research more environmentally sustainable?
Get up to £10,000 to develop your project and help increase sustainable lab practices. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
Get up to £10,000 to develop your project and help increase sustainable lab practices. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Do you have an idea that could make research more environmentally sustainable?
Get up to £10,000 to develop your project and help increase sustainable lab practices. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
Get up to £10,000 to develop your project and help increase sustainable lab practices. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
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The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is open!
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications till 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications till 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is open!
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications till 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications till 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant
Don't miss this great oppirtunity to kickstart a project in sustainable chemistry!
The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is now open!
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky
September 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Don't miss this great oppirtunity to kickstart a project in sustainable chemistry!
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The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is now open!
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/4ndyr4q
#ChemSky
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/4ndyr4q
#ChemSky
September 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is now open!
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/4ndyr4q
#ChemSky
Apply for up to £10,000 to support projects that improve sustainability in lab practice – we’re accepting applications 1 September 2025 – 6 October 2025.
Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/4ndyr4q
#ChemSky
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I was on the registration desk for most of the conference, and a scary number of people said that this was likely to be their last ViCEPHEC. Shrinking departments, closing departments, and removal of conference/travel funds all mentioned multiple times. A brilliant community in a terrible shadow.
August 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I was on the registration desk for most of the conference, and a scary number of people said that this was likely to be their last ViCEPHEC. Shrinking departments, closing departments, and removal of conference/travel funds all mentioned multiple times. A brilliant community in a terrible shadow.
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@davidpalomas.bsky.social (UCL) spoke really well on his “student start up” model for problem-based learning in sustainable chemistry, and Frances Docherty (Glasgow) described work to improve community and self-efficacy, including use of the Numbas tool developed at Newcastle… #ViCEPHEC25
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Numbas | Learning and Teaching @ Newcastle | Newcastle University
www.ncl.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
@davidpalomas.bsky.social (UCL) spoke really well on his “student start up” model for problem-based learning in sustainable chemistry, and Frances Docherty (Glasgow) described work to improve community and self-efficacy, including use of the Numbas tool developed at Newcastle… #ViCEPHEC25
(3/n)
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Reminder: electronic versions of posters and talks should be sent to the #ViCEPHEC25 email address by Thursday 21st (tomorrow).
This is important because some attendees require electronic materials to fully engage with the conference.
This is important because some attendees require electronic materials to fully engage with the conference.
August 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Reminder: electronic versions of posters and talks should be sent to the #ViCEPHEC25 email address by Thursday 21st (tomorrow).
This is important because some attendees require electronic materials to fully engage with the conference.
This is important because some attendees require electronic materials to fully engage with the conference.
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Good luck to all students receiving their A-Level results tomorrow! We know how much this moment means and how hard you’ve worked to get here.
If you’ve applied to study at UCL, we’ve prepared a helpful guide to support you through Results Day: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
If you’ve applied to study at UCL, we’ve prepared a helpful guide to support you through Results Day: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
August 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Good luck to all students receiving their A-Level results tomorrow! We know how much this moment means and how hard you’ve worked to get here.
If you’ve applied to study at UCL, we’ve prepared a helpful guide to support you through Results Day: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
If you’ve applied to study at UCL, we’ve prepared a helpful guide to support you through Results Day: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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Just three weeks until #ViCEPHEC25.
Get in touch if you want to be added to the starter pack - we did a sweep for people named on conference abstracts, but have not systematically added attendees.
Get in touch if you want to be added to the starter pack - we did a sweep for people named on conference abstracts, but have not systematically added attendees.
We're working on building a #ViCEPHEC25 starter pack, which you can find here. Starter packs let you follow a group of people at once.
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
August 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just three weeks until #ViCEPHEC25.
Get in touch if you want to be added to the starter pack - we did a sweep for people named on conference abstracts, but have not systematically added attendees.
Get in touch if you want to be added to the starter pack - we did a sweep for people named on conference abstracts, but have not systematically added attendees.
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Inspired by the Cyclobutanone Photochemistry Challenge, we assessed MRSF-TDDFT for its excited-state dynamics and found that an S₃/S₂ conical intersection likely plays a key role in the photochemistry. Take a look at our new preprint: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Is MRSF-TDDFT Suitable for Cyclobutanone Dynamics? The Role of Higher Energy States in Surface Hopping Simulations
Modelling photochemical reactions remains a significant challenge due to the need for accurate descriptions of multiple excited states and their couplings with nuclear vibrations. Despite considerable...
chemrxiv.org
August 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Inspired by the Cyclobutanone Photochemistry Challenge, we assessed MRSF-TDDFT for its excited-state dynamics and found that an S₃/S₂ conical intersection likely plays a key role in the photochemistry. Take a look at our new preprint: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Are you passionate about sustainability and education reform? Join our team! 🧪
Beyond Benign seeks a Green Chemistry Commitment Program Manager to lead our higher ed initiatives that bring #GreenChemistry into classrooms across the globe. 🌎 Apply by August 1st: www.beyondbenign.org/people/green...
Beyond Benign seeks a Green Chemistry Commitment Program Manager to lead our higher ed initiatives that bring #GreenChemistry into classrooms across the globe. 🌎 Apply by August 1st: www.beyondbenign.org/people/green...
July 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Are you passionate about sustainability and education reform? Join our team! 🧪
Beyond Benign seeks a Green Chemistry Commitment Program Manager to lead our higher ed initiatives that bring #GreenChemistry into classrooms across the globe. 🌎 Apply by August 1st: www.beyondbenign.org/people/green...
Beyond Benign seeks a Green Chemistry Commitment Program Manager to lead our higher ed initiatives that bring #GreenChemistry into classrooms across the globe. 🌎 Apply by August 1st: www.beyondbenign.org/people/green...
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We're working on building a #ViCEPHEC25 starter pack, which you can find here. Starter packs let you follow a group of people at once.
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
July 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We're working on building a #ViCEPHEC25 starter pack, which you can find here. Starter packs let you follow a group of people at once.
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
Message if you'd like to be added/removed - this is very much a work in progress. go.bsky.app/FffPieC
At the Advance HE Teaching & Learning 2025 Conference this week. I am excited to share my work on using sport coaching strategies to reduce resistance to active learning and to learn from fellow educators. #TLConf2025 #HigherEd #ActiveLearning
July 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
At the Advance HE Teaching & Learning 2025 Conference this week. I am excited to share my work on using sport coaching strategies to reduce resistance to active learning and to learn from fellow educators. #TLConf2025 #HigherEd #ActiveLearning
Just arrived in Birmingham for my first Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference! Excited to connect and share my work on using PBL to boost student employability.
I am presenting on Thursday. Come say hello if you're around!
#UKSTEMConf25 #STEMEducation #Employability #PBL #HigherEd
I am presenting on Thursday. Come say hello if you're around!
#UKSTEMConf25 #STEMEducation #Employability #PBL #HigherEd
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Just arrived in Birmingham for my first Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference! Excited to connect and share my work on using PBL to boost student employability.
I am presenting on Thursday. Come say hello if you're around!
#UKSTEMConf25 #STEMEducation #Employability #PBL #HigherEd
I am presenting on Thursday. Come say hello if you're around!
#UKSTEMConf25 #STEMEducation #Employability #PBL #HigherEd
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Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor)
London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️
Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀
#chemsky 🧪
London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️
Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀
#chemsky 🧪
Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor)
London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️
Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀
#chemsky 🧪
London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️
Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀
#chemsky 🧪
Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Sustainable Chemistry programme, and hear how to tackle the major global challenges of today and tomorrow. 19th May 2025, 10:00-10:30 (BST)
www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...
www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...
MSc Online Applicant Events
The department will be hosting a series of online applicant events for anyone thinking of taking one of our postgraduate taught programmes.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Our work on lactonase biocatalysts is finally out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congratulations to our team (Jingyue and Michele) @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and pur collaborators at CNR Milan and Zymvol. #biocatalysis #greenchemistry #sulfur
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Unlocking Lactonase Enzymes as Biocatalysts for the Deracemization of Chiral γ‐Thiolactones
Lactonases, a class of metalloenzymes that exhibit catalytic promiscuity, have been extensively studied from a biological perspective, yet their application as biocatalysts remains underexplored. In ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Our work on lactonase biocatalysts is finally out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congratulations to our team (Jingyue and Michele) @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and pur collaborators at CNR Milan and Zymvol. #biocatalysis #greenchemistry #sulfur
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#chemsky 🧪
We are thrilled to announce the Bseisu-UCL Scholarship, offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation for applications for MSc in Sustainable Chemistry. Open for candidates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. Deadline 8 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Bseisu-UCL Scholarship
Offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation, this award aims to assist students from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria to study specific Master's programmes at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#chemsky 🧪
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We are thrilled to announce the Bseisu-UCL Scholarship, offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation for applications for MSc in Sustainable Chemistry. Open for candidates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. Deadline 8 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Bseisu-UCL Scholarship
Offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation, this award aims to assist students from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria to study specific Master's programmes at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We are thrilled to announce the Bseisu-UCL Scholarship, offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation for applications for MSc in Sustainable Chemistry. Open for candidates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. Deadline 8 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
🧪 #chemsky
Grateful to @rsc.org for funding my RECOMPENSE project! I’ll be developing and sharing accessible protocols (via an #OpenScience platform) to upcycle polystyrene waste from labs into polystyrene sulfonic acid resins, for use in #GreenChemistry and #SustainableChemistry education and research.
🌍 This #EarthDay, we’re awarding £200,000 in Sustainable Laboratories Grants to support 25 new projects. This funding will drive work in seven countries to inspire green changes in labs, using everything from AI to low-impact techniques & more.
Learn about the projects: rsc.li/slg #ChemSky #ED2025
Learn about the projects: rsc.li/slg #ChemSky #ED2025
April 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🧪 #chemsky
Grateful to @rsc.org for funding my RECOMPENSE project! I’ll be developing and sharing accessible protocols (via an #OpenScience platform) to upcycle polystyrene waste from labs into polystyrene sulfonic acid resins, for use in #GreenChemistry and #SustainableChemistry education and research.
🌍 This #EarthDay, we’re awarding £200,000 in Sustainable Laboratories Grants to support 25 new projects. This funding will drive work in seven countries to inspire green changes in labs, using everything from AI to low-impact techniques & more.
Learn about the projects: rsc.li/slg #ChemSky #ED2025
Learn about the projects: rsc.li/slg #ChemSky #ED2025
April 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Grateful to @rsc.org for funding my RECOMPENSE project! I’ll be developing and sharing accessible protocols (via an #OpenScience platform) to upcycle polystyrene waste from labs into polystyrene sulfonic acid resins, for use in #GreenChemistry and #SustainableChemistry education and research.
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Applications for our MSc in #Sustainable #Chemistry are still open. See the link below to apply and join @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and study #greenchemistry #biocatalysis #biomass #vslorisation #biotechnology
www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
Applications for the MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry at UCL are… | Daniele Castagnolo
Applications for the MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry at UCL are still open. If you are interested in tackling the next future global challenges and you want to learn how to make chemistry more ...
www.linkedin.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Applications for our MSc in #Sustainable #Chemistry are still open. See the link below to apply and join @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and study #greenchemistry #biocatalysis #biomass #vslorisation #biotechnology
www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...