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Panos Kolyvakis
Panos graduated form the university of Edinburgh, receiving the 2017 BSc award. He did his undergraduate project in the Shaver group, working with Meng on boron chemistry. He started his PhD on July 2017 and is currently working under the supervision of Prof. Michael Shaver and Prof. Neil McKeown. His project involves the development of novel polymeric adsorbents for water purification. Another Shaver group member trying to make the world a better place!
Weronika Gruszka
Weronika graduated with MChem in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in July 2017. In her fourth year, she spent a year in Prof Paul Dyson’s research laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland where she worked on the catalytic synthesis of methanol from carbon dioxide and diols via cyclic carbonates. This sparked her interest in upcycling of carbon dioxide in chemical synthesis and upon her return to Edinburgh, she undertook her final year project with Dr Jennifer Garden, looking at the catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygenated polymeric materials. She is looking forward to taking this project further during her PhD as part of the EPSRC CRITICAT Centre for Doctoral Training.
