On Thursday 24th February, Sze May Yee successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Towards the Simulations of Complex Human Brain Cell Membranes.” May was examined by Edina Rosta and Antreas Kalli, who have requested that she completes minor corrections to her thesis. May’s viva was able to be held in …
On Friday 12 November, Paul Smith successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Understanding Lipid Membrane Biophysics Through Molecular Simulation.” Paul was examined by Andela Saric and Arianna Fornili, who have requested that he completes minor corrections to his thesis. Paul’s viva was able to be held in a face-to-face setting, …
Since January 2021, three members of the group have had their PhD vivas, Rob Ziolek, Demi Pink and Adam Suhaj. Each one of them have successfully defended their thesis, and have been asked to submit minor corrections. Rob was the first to have his defense on 18 February 2021. He …
On 31 January, Irene Marzuoli, who was co-supervised by Prof. Franca Fraternali in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biology, was examined by Prof. Syma Khalid (University of Southampton) and Prof. Fernando Bresme (Imperial College London) during her PhD viva. Irene’s viva was during the afternoon, and in the end the examiners …
On 18 December, Philip Ferguson, who was co-supervised by James Mason (KCL, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science), was examined by Jason Crain (IBM Research, UK) and Jake Bundy (Imperial College London) during his PhD viva. Phil’s viva lasted most of the afternoon, and in the end the examiners were left impressed by …
On 29 November, Mateusz Bieniek conducted his PhD viva, which was examined by Dr. Paul Mulheran (University of Strathclyde) and Dr. Giorgia Brancolini (CNR NANO, Modena, Italy). First, Mat gave an exit seminar to an audience including members of the Lorenz Lab, the two examiners and Dr. Willie Taylor, Mat’s superviser …