Prof Dave Mills and I are currently advertising two 24-month PDRAs.

Application deadline: 19th August.

PDRA in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PDRA in Advanced Spectroscopy and Magnetism:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Congratulations to @nathan-alcock.bsky.social on successfully obtaining his PhD studying actinide electronic structure and bonding with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. His thesis work includes this paper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... and others that will follow shortly.

Lana presented her actinide X-ray spectroscopy research this week at HPC-CONEXS at Diamond Light Source (poster content redacted until published!).

Last week, we welcomed the first external users (University of Glasgow) of our cryostat for actinide samples. The team conducted HERFD using I18 and the Active Materials Lab at Diamond Light Source @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

We have a PhD opening as part of this programme: esrf.gestmax.eu/1869/1/phd-s...

Like f-elements in unusual oxidation states?

Please look at this 4-year #PhD position between Manchester and Peking University to isolate formally divalent molecules and determine their electronic structures with advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thank you to the team at ID20 for supporting our Th RIXS experiment this week; excellent beamline with very impressive energy resolution @esrf.fr

Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @natchem.nature.com !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...