MOLMAGLAB news 

21st March, 2013: Nelly Berg and Sean Meally Graduate

Drs Nelly Berg and Sean Meally graduated on the 21st March, 2013 in the Bailey Allen Hall. Well done guys, from everyone in the Jones group.

Dr Nelly Berg looks the part!

Dr Sean Meally looking dapper!

Edel, Nelly and Cecelia smile for the camera!

17th December, 2012: Sean Meally is now also a Doctor. They are like buses!  

A huge well done to Sean Meally for successfully defending his thesis this week (17/12/2012). The Jones group will sorely miss Sean, especially with respect to the laboratory health and safety system he implemented!  

30th November, 2012: Nelly Berg is now a Doctor!

A huge congratulations to Nelly Berg for successfully defending her thesis today (30/11/12). Nelly will be taking a position at Intel (Leixslip). The Jones group are going to miss Nelly but wish her the very best for the future.   

Champers to celebrate Nelly’s viva success!

A Sea Change for Edel!!

The Jones Group would like to congratulate our very own Edel Houton on successfully gaining a 3 month placement at Seagate Technologies in Springtown, Derry. Seagate specialise in the development and manufacture of recording heads, which write information onto and read information from the recording disc inside a computer’s hard drive. Edel will implement the background knowledge gleaned from the first two years of her studies in this new role. More specifically Edel will be based in the Process Engineering Department. We wish Edel the best of luck with her working sabbatical.  

Nelly Goes Nano!

Nelly (far right) and colleagues take a break from their laser fabrication course at the Tyndall Institute, Cork.

Nelly Berg recently attended a nanotechnology fabrication course at the Tyndall Institute in Cork. During this 2 day course Nelly was given the task of fabricating and testing a series of semiconducting ridge lasers (of varying ridge widths and depths) on a GaAs based wafer. Specific techniques gleaned from this course included photolithography, chemical (wet) etching, oxygen plasma cleaning ( PLASMOD), contact profilometry, Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition ( PECVD), metal evaporation, metal lift-off and metal annealing.

Nelly would like to thank the organisers and specialists involved with this amazing course.

31st May 2012: A huge pat on the back for Edel Houton on the publication of her first principal author paper. This work (published in Dalton Transactions) describes a ferromagnetic [Mn2] dimer which has been probed using IR and Raman spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility and magnetisation vs. field studies, single crystal EPR measurements and DFT studies! For access to this paper click here.

March 2012: Congratulations to Nelly Berg on the publication of her magneto-structural correlation work which has recently appeared in the excellent journal Chemistry-A European Journal. For a look at this paper please click here.

15th March 2012: Happy Birthday to Leigh Jones! (I realise this is sad!) 

14th March 2012: Today marks the electronic publication of the latest paper from Sean Meally’s PhD work. A big congratulations to him and Cecelia McDonald for her important contributions. Please click here to access this paper.

3rd February 2012: A big congratulations to Nelly Berg on the publication of her latest offering entitled: Old Dog, New Tricks: 2,2'-biphenol as a Bridging and Book-End ligand in discrete and extended Co(II) architectures, CrystEngComm., 2012, 14, 2372. For access to this paper click here.    

22nd-25th Novermber 2011: ECMM 2011 (Paris).

The Jones group recently attended the biannual European Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ECMM) in Paris (France not Texas!). The hugely successful event was graced with many fine speakers including plenary lectures from Matthew Rosseinsky (Univ. of Liverpool) and Vincent Pecoraro (University of Michigan). The worthy winner of the 2011 Olivier Kahn Award was announced as Professor Stefano Carretta of the University of Parma, whom also delivered an excellent seminar detailing his award winning work. Below are some pictures highlighting the beauty of Paris as well as the excellent ambiance during the evenings! 

Edel, Nelly, Cecelia and Sean enjoy the sight of Blackpool...oh i mean The Eiffel Tower at night.

A beautiful picture taken in Le Jardin de Luxembourg.

Sean Meally pictured in between Ross Inglis (left) and Tom Hooper (right)  (both postdoctoral fellows with the Brechin group at the University of Edinburgh) at the conference dinner.

Social festivities in full flow in The Moose Pub (Odeon, Paris).

Sean Meally takes it all in during one particularly interesting talk.

       Where’s Wally? The delegate photo taken at ECMM 2011.

10th November 2011: Group member Sean Meally impressed the school recently by reciting the entire Periodic Table in under 1 minute! Nice work Sean! To see this magnificant display click here.

9th November 2011: Leigh Jones progresses to Lecturer: Above the bar status after a successful pregression interview. Many thanks to the internal and external members of the panel for their hard work.  

20-21st September 2011: The Jones group made their way over to Warwick recently for the Dalton Young Researchers Symposium, all four members armed with a poster! Although great craic was had by all, many interesting areas of research were highlighted during this excellent 2 day event.      

30th June 2011: Congratulations to Nelly Berg for the publication of her recent work on ionic and covalent chains in CrystEngComm. 

Crystal structure of an alternating Mn(III)-Na(I) ionic 1D polymer linked via strong H-bonds (dashed lines).

10th June 2011: Congratulations to our ex- 4th year student and NUIG Chemistry graduate Patrick Kealy for securing a position at SEAGATE (Springfield, Derry). SEAGATE are world renowned manufacturers of read-write heads for hard drives. The Springtown facility is the largest factory of its type in the recording head industry, supplying over a million heads every day for Seagate disc drives.

1st April 2011: No, this is not an April Fool’s Prank. NUI Galway really did welcome President Mary McAleese to Galway on the 1st of April. President McAleese was present to open the new NUI Galway Prostate Cancer Screening Institute. President McAleese then went on to receive the President's medal from the Literary and Debating Society at the college. After delivering her rousing speech held in the Kirwan Theatre, President McAleese along with her husband Dr Martin McAleese and our own President Dr James J. Browne, found themselves in the School of Chemistry and were soon posing for photographs with some of our plucky and very patient PhD students which included our very own Nelly Berg, Cecelia McDonald and Edel Houton (pictured in lab coats below).

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