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Martijn Zwijnenburg
@zwijcompchem.bsky.social
Engineer pretending to be a Computational Chemist working on how light and stuff interact at University College London - husband of @jelfschem.bsky.social - all views are my own 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
Interesting Thomas Graham lecture on plastic electronics by Prof. Bob Schroeder in advance of tonight's annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social lab dinner. #chemsky
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Interesting @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social seminar this afternoon at UCL on machine learning forcefields by Alexandre Tkatchenko #compchem
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Congratulations to Teo Cobas Freire from the Shluger group on passing his PhD viva this afternoon!

Many thanks to Chiara Gattinoni for sharing the work of examining Teo's thesis.

#compchem
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Good @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social symposium this afternoon on the modelling of battery cathodes and solid-state electrolytes.

Thanks to Marie-Liesse, Alex and Ben for coming to London and present their work.

#chemsky #compchem
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A good couple of days catching up on the latest Turbomole developments in beautiful Augsburg #compchem
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Congratulations to Eimear on passing her PhD viva this afternoon! Thanks to Keith Butler and Alex Ganose for examining.

#compchem #chemsky
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
MOF Chemistry, child's play? Our daughter last year listening to one of this year's Chemistry Nobel Prize winners' after dinner speech. #chemsky #chemnobel
October 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This afternoon we had the 2025 @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social welcome event for new computational chemistry and materials science PhD students and postdocs at the different universities in London #compchem
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
September 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
September 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This afternoon we had the annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social Ramsay Medal symposium during which the winner of the Ramsay Medal for the best graduating PhD student in the department is decided #chemsky
September 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congratulations to Sabrine Hachmioune from the Scanlon group on passing her PhD viva today!

Thanks to David for the invitation to examine Sabrine's thesis and to Lucy Whalley (Northumbria) for doing the heavy lifting as external examiner.

#compchem
September 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I was happy to present Robert Hoye (Oxford) with the @rsc.org's Beilby medal this morning before his invited talk at #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sophia Haussener (Lausanne 🇨🇭) and Erwin Reisner (Cambridge 🇬🇧) kick started the final day of #ISF2025 with plenary talks on the engineering of solar fuel devices and on going from waste to solar chemicals, respectively
September 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Newcastle
September 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A sharp dressed Seb Sprick (@sebsprick.bsky.social , Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) finished the last organic materials themed session of #ISF2025 by reviewing the work of him and his collaborators on photocatalytic polymer films
September 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Filip Podjaski (London 🇬🇧) gave a stimulating talk on the application of Tetra Herz spectroscopy to polymer and carbon nitride photocatalysts #ISF2025
September 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My former UCL colleague Junwang Tang, now at Tsinghua University 🇨🇳, gave a keynote on combining photo and thermal catalysis to activate small molecules #ISF2025
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Xinchen Wang (Fuzhou 🇨🇳) gave the second plenary of the morning on carbon nitride photocatalysts #ISF2025
September 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Andy Cooper (@aicooper.bsky.social , Liverpool 🇬🇧) kick started the penultimate day of #ISF2025 with a plenary talk on the use of robotics and AI in (photo)catalyst discovery and optimization
September 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Final organic photocatalysts session of the day with contributions by Zeinab Hamid (Oxford 🇬🇧), Arnau Bertran (Lausanne 🇨🇭), Keren Ai ( London 🇬🇧) and Matyas Daboczi (Budapest 🇭🇺) #ISF2025
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
More organic talks this afternoon; on heterojunctions (Salvador Eslava, London 🇬🇧), materials for H2O2 synthesis (Masayuki Yagi, Niigata 🇯🇵), materials for glucose oxidation (Rhys Bourhill, Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) and solar batteries (Bibhuti Bhusan Rath, Stuttgart 🇩🇪) #ISF2025
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Good session on organic photocatalysts this morning with contributions by Teresa Maurer (Bayreuth 🇩🇪), Sam Hillman (London 🇬🇧) and Andrea Rogolino (Cambridge 🇬🇧) #ISF2025
September 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM