Final Workshop (UAB)
The Final Workshop of the SELECTA project took place on 26th – 29th of August 2018 at Gran Hotel Rey Don Jaime, in Barcelona, Spain. This event was organized by UAB (coordinator institution) and it was entitled: “Overview of the SELECTA achievements. Final Reporting”. On Monday 27th, the ESRs delivered 20 minutes presentations to show their latest results. After each presentation, 10 minutes for questions and comments were allocated. In turn, during the management session, the members of the Consortium gathered together to discuss the last management issues of the project. The following day, a guided tour to synchrotron ALBA was scheduled. Two scientists in charge of the synchrotron beam-lines showed the large-scale facility and explained in detail their own work. In the afternoon, all the participants visited Sitges and had dinner in this nice seaside village. Scientific lectures and soft skills training on grant writing were provided to the ESRs on the last day of the workshop. To get further information on the activities of the event, please see below the SELECTA Final Workshop programme.
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SELECTA Final Workshop (UAB)
The next event of the SELECTA network will be the Final Workshop entitled: “Overview of the SELECTA achievements. Final Reporting”. The workshop will take place on 26th -29th of August at Gran Hotel Rey Don Jaime, located in Castelldefels, very close to the airport of Barcelona. This last event of the network is intended to overview the scientific and technological output of the project. Besides scientific lectures and training in soft skills, a visit to the synchrotron ALBA will also be scheduled. In turn, the ESRs will deliver a presentation to explain the progress and scientific results of the last year and the relevant achievements of the project. Please use the template provided below to prepare this presentation (ESR presentation template). The programme of the event is also provided below (SELECTA Final Workshop programme).
3rd COST Action e-MINDS Training School / 6th World Congress on Nanotechnology and Material Science
The oral presentation entitled “Functional electrodeposited Fe-W alloys: design, characterization and properties” delivered by Aliona Nicolenco (SELECTA ESR from VU) was awarded the “Best Student Presentation” during the 3rd COST Action e-MINDS Training School, which took place in Siófok, Hungary, between 26th and 30th of March 2018. The presentation was mainly focused on the design of an electrolytic bath for Fe-W co-deposition and aimed to provide the basic principles for the calculation of complexes distribution and to show the convenience of this approach to unveil the factors controlling the performance of the plating bath. The jury consisted of three people (Prof. László Péter, Prof. Nina Dimcheva, Dr. Soma Vesztergom) who assessed the novelty, professional level, reaction to questions, as well as the didactic level of the presentation, among other criteria, and recognized three out of sixteen student presentations at the closing session on 30th of March. The Training School program is attached.
Art in Magnetism, INTERMAG 2018
Matteo Cialone, the SELECTA ESR from INRIM, was awarded in the "Art in Magnetism" contest hosted in the INTERMAG 2018 conference which took place in Marina Bay Sands Convention Center, Singapore between the 23rd and 27th of April 2018. The aim of this contest was to highlight the beauty of magnetism and magnetic materials. For this, four prizes were awarded to images selected by a panel of judges as well as by popular vote (see below the four pictures selected: “Art in Magnetism winners”). The picture submitted by Matteo Cialone, entitled "My nano sunflowers", was selected by popular vote and it was recognized at the evening session on the 25th of April. The image which represents sub-micrometric structures of Fe70Pd30 was acquired by scanning electron microscopy at the Nanofacility Piemonte at INRIM and it was colorized after the acquisition. To get further details on the image, please see below: “Image information”.
2018 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
On Friday 6th of April 2018 at 9:15 am, Prof. Christina Lekka, from University of Ioannina, delivered an invited talk entitled: “On the design of Fe-X (X=Cu and Co) Nanoclusters and coatings with improve magnetic moment by density functional theory”, at the 2018 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. This interdisciplinary and international forum, which took place on 2nd-6th April 2018 at the Convention Center of Phoenix, Arizona, gathered together around 4200 participants and 50 parallel sessions. The meeting provided a window to the future of materials sciences and offered an opportunity for researchers to exchange technical information and network with colleagues. To get further information on this event, please check the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting website: http://www.mrs.org/spring2018
SELECTA Final Workshop
The next event of the SELECTA network will be the SELECTA Final Workshop entitled “Overview of the SELECTA achievements. Final Reporting”. The meeting will be organized by UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and it will take place on 27th-29th August at Gran Hotel Rey Don Jaime, Castelldefels, Barcelona. This last event of the network is intended to overview the scientific and technological output of the project. During the Final Workshop the SELECTA ESRs (Early Stage Researchers) will present the results achieved during their PhD. The future exploitation of SELECTA results and the preparation of the Final Report will also be tackled during the workshop. Further information, such as programme, registration process and accommodation details, will be available soon.
Licentiate seminar: Antonio Mulone
On Thursday, March 22nd, Antonio Mulone, SELECTA ESR (Early Stage Researcher) from Chalmers, will deliver his licentiate seminar. This mid-examination will take place in VDL, Hörsalsvägen 7A, Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg. The title of the presentation is “Characterization of Electrodeposited Fe-based Metallic Coatings: Toward a Sustainable Approach” and the discussion leader of the session will be Associate Professor Caterina Zanella, from Jönköping University. To get further information on this event, please see below the official announcement of the licentiate presentation.
[ Antonio Mulone Licenciate Presentation ]
SELECTA Winter School (UCAM)
The SELECTA winter school entitled “Gateway to industry: Introducing materials to market. Practical aspects” was organized by UCAM (University of Cambridge) on 7-12 January 2018. The network members gathered together aiming to provide training to the ESRs (Early Stage Researchers). The training in soft skills included a presentation on how to apply for Marie S. Curie Individual Fellowship (MSC-IF) and a whole day training on how to prepare for a job interview. The main goal of this session was to prepare the ESRs for their future job interviews. For this, ‘mock’ job interviews were performed. Each ESR delivered a 12 minutes presentation to apply for one of the three job offers proposed (industry, publishing or university). Afterwards, the ESR was interviewed by a panel of three senior researchers who provided feedback at the end of the interview. The scientific lectures of the event were scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday. Among the activities of the winter school, visits to GRANTA and to Cavendish Lavoratory were also arranged by the UCAM organizing team. During the management session several network issues were tackled, such as financial aspects, reporting, dissemination and future steps of the project. To get further information on the training in soft skills, scientific lectures and activities organized during the SELECTA winter school, see below the programme of the event.
[ SELECTA Winter School Programme 2018 ]
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International Conference Balttrib’2017
The SELECTA team from Vilnius University participated in the International Conference Balttrib’2017. This event took place on 16-17 November 2017 at the Aleksandras Stulginskis University in Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference gathered together leading experts and professionals of the field to share knowledge and experiences and discuss the latest industry trends. The principal investigator of the Vilnius University group, Prof. Henrikas Cesiulis, delivered a plenary presentation entitled: “Trends in Iron-Group Metals Based Protective Coatings: The Role of Hydrofobicity”. In turn, the SELECTA ESR, Aliona Nicolenco, gave an oral presentation entitled: “Wear Resistance of Electrodeposited Fe-W Alloys under Dry and Lubricating Conditions”. See below the programme of the International Conference Balttrib’2017.
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SELECTA Winter School organized by University of Cambridge
The SELECTA winter school entitled “Gateway to industry: Introducing materials to market. Practical aspects” will be held on 7-12 January 2017 at UCAM (University of Cambridge), United Kingdom. All the ESRs of the network will attend several scientific lectures and training in soft skills will be provided. The ESRs will be trained on interview skills to prepare them to face future job interviews. Another training activity, which will be optional, will be the preparation by the ESRs of a 3-4 minutes showcase video on each particular PhD topic. These videos will be prepared in advance, they will be projected during the event and afterwards they will be used to disseminate the SELECTA outcome. The senior researcher will also participate in the winter school activities and they will gather together to discuss several management issues of the network during the management session. See below the procedure required to book the accommodation of the participants and a preliminary agenda. Information on how to pay the registration fees will be available soon.
[ Winter School Accommodation ]
