The annual group Christmas outing 2012 was held on the 14^th of December. Everyone in the group (all 35 of us!) got together to celebrate the festive season in what was one of the greatest and most productive years the electrochemistry group have ever had. The night commenced at Barak’s house for the traditional Secret-Santa gift swapping extravaganza followed by a very special private dinner at Woodside in Kenilworth. After the wonderful food and very many drinks later (open bar courtesy of Pat and Julie) the night continued in nearby Leamington Spa until the early morning hours.

Many thanks to this year’s organising committee (Rob Channon & Sophie Kinnear) for doing such a great job!

Yet enother succesful viva! Lucy Tomlinson passed her viva for her work on the electrochemistry of single crystal boron doped diamond. Lucy is now training as a teacher in a nearby school.

Neil Ebejer is now a Dr! He submitted his PhD thesis 'Development and application of pipette based electrochemical imaging techniques' and passed his viva with minor corrections. Well done to you and all the best for the future...Neil now works for INTEL in Ireland.

The August/September group imaging competition was again a great success. Well done to Tom Miller for winning the trophy (actually it was bottle of wine) for his rather quirky entry titled 'It's a dog', which now hangs on the wall in Pat's office. Runner up was Laura Hutton for her lead on boron doped diamond electrode named 'Heavy Metal'.

The electrochemistry and interfaces group wants to welcome 6 new PhD students; Guohui, Tania, Lingcong, Alexander (otherwise known as Parky), Liz and Anatolli (Tolik). For more details on their projects take a look at our 'about us' page...Good luck to you all and work hard!