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Rosy graduates!

Congratulation to Dr Rosy Polisicchio on her graduation from University of Galway today! Rosy’s thesis was titled “Lanthanide-functionalised vitamin B12 probes for targeted tumour bio-imaging: from rational design to biological evaluation” and her primary supervisor was Dr Luca Ronconi. Joe was her secondary supervisor, lending his expertise on lanthanide chemistry. Rosy was supported by a Hardiman Scholarship and later won an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. She was also active in outreach during her PhD. Rosy has already started as an R&D Scientific Communication Advisor at Unilever in the UK. We wish Rosy every success in her future career!

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Karolina defends her PhD thesis

Very proud of my very first PhD student Karolina Wojtczak who successfully defended her thesis last Thursday. A lot of hard work has paid off and she has left the group lots of interesting starting points for future projects (in addition to a few more imminent publications). Her thesis was titled “Metal-based glycoconjugates as molecular sensors for lectins and anti-adhesives”.

Karol was an absolute pleasure to have in my lab and I wish her all the best with her bright future. I’m sure she will achieve great things. Congratulations!

A great celebration was had in Galway to mark the occasion.

Thanks to Research Ireland (formerly SFI) (18/SIRG/5501) for financial support and Paul Murphy for co-supervising her, particularly after I moved to UCD last year.

Karol has already started a position as a Development Chemist in Sterling Pharma Solutions.

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Karolina presents project at ICI Postgraduate Symposium

Karolina presented a flash talk about her research at the 1st ICI Postgraduate Chemistry Research Symposium with two very colourful slides describing her project.

She thoroughly enjoyed attending the event as a whole and would like to congratulate all the speakers and organisers for a fantastic job bringing postgraduate scientists in Ireland together even in these times, when sharing and exchanging knowledge in traditional ways is very challenging if not impossible.  She is looking forward to next year’s event!