Following on from the success of her talk at the Midlands Electrochemistry Group Conference, Zoe Ayres takes the top spot again by winning the prize for Best Talk at the Diamond Conference 2016.

Zoe's two-times prize-winning talk is based on the development of her all-diamond pH sensor, and how it can be used in extreme environments. Congratulations Zoe!

It's conference season, and WEIG are taking it as an opportunity to snatch up all the prizes!

May 25th saw the Midlands Electrochemistry Group (MEG) 2016 Conference, gratefully hosted by the University of Leicester. Representing WEIG were Ashley Page, talking about multifunctional scanning for cellular uptake, Zoe Ayres and her diamond pH sensor, and Minkyung Kang discussing single nanoparticle electrochemistry. Also there were electrochemistry groups from Loughborough, Birmingham and Nottingham. But it was Warwick who came out on top, as Zoe won the prize for Best Talk and Lingcong Meng won the award for Best Poster.

June 1st was the Chemistry Department Postgraduate Research Symposium, Warwick's in-house conference. Here we had Maria Adobes Vidal discussing the dissolution of L-cystine crystals, David Perry talking about surface charge mapping, Faduma Maddar modelling the dissolution of pharmaceutical actives, and Minkyung showcasing her talk again. This time, Ashley was runner-up for the award for Best Poster, while Maria was the runner-up for Best Talk.

Well done everyone!

The Winner of the RSC Ronald Belcher Award 2016 is Miss Zoe Ayres!

The Ronald Belcher Award is given for outstanding work on an analytical topic, by a current post-graduate student. Zoe was awarded the prize for the development of her robust boron doped diamond pH sensor for in-situ pH measurements in extreme environments.

http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2016/may/awards-and-prizes-2016

The RSC selection committee evaluated Zoe's contributions to science and deemed them to be of the highest quality, considering not only her research but also her professional standing and STEM promotion. Well done Zoe!

Roy Meyler recently attended the Hasselt Diamond Workshop - SBDD XXI - in Belgium to present his work on fabricating boron doped diamond electrochemical sensors to be used for detecting in extreme environments.

He won the Best Student Poster award, having been selected from over 100 posters by researchers from 24 countries.