澳门历史开奖记录

The MAPS Faculty ECR Forum Awards 2024 celebrates the extraordinary success achieved in the five areas, including research, teaching, community work, EDI, outreach and communications, by ECRs in departments across the faculty. The panel were amazed by the high-quality applications received from PhDs, PDRAs, Research Fellows and other early career researchers. It was a tough task for them to decide the eleven winners across the five categories, and the winners are:

Research Excellence Award

• Alec Owens, Research Fellow, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
• Gao Xuan, PhD, Dept of Chemistry
• Gianluca Pescaroli, Associate Professor, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction
• Thaisa Comelli, Research Fellow, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction

Teaching Excellence Award

• Lucy Maun, PhD, Dept of Science and Technology Studies

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award

• Deborah Tangunan, Research Fellow, Dept of Earth Sciences
• Louisa Acciari, Research Fellow, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction

Outreach and Communication Award

• Fern Pannell, PhD, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
• Megan Joseph, PhD, London Centre for Nanotechnology

Community Work Award

• Catherine Lucas, Antonia Belli and Scott Keir, PhDs, Dept of Science and Technology Studies
• Ina Bradic, PhD, Dept of Chemistry

Many congratulations to the above winners!

Dr Michael Booth, the Forum Co-Chair, said 鈥淲e are delighted to recognise the major impact of these early career researchers in such a variety of However, it was a difficult task to decide the winners due to the fantastic quality of the applications.鈥�

Upon receiving the great news of winning the Outreach and Communication Award, Fern Pannell, a PhD from the department of Physics and Astronomy, responded, 鈥淚 am delighted to receive the MAPS ECR Forum award for Outreach and Communication this year. Working on the AWAKE experiment for my PhD has been a privilege, and creating a movie to explain the fascinating plasma and accelerator physics was a very rewarding project. I am grateful for the recognition from UCL and for my colleagues who supported the project!鈥�

All the winners聽will be invited to attend the MAPS faculty awards ceremony that is being planned to take place in December. Prof Andrew Wills, MAPS Faculty Vice Dean for Research, thanked the MAPS ECR Forum for organising the Awards and commented, 鈥淟ooking through this year鈥檚 applications for the MAPS ECR Forum Awards, I was struck by the extraordinary passion our ECRs have, not only for advancing scientific knowledge, but also in teaching, outreach, sustainability, and research culture initiatives. It is great to see how this community is building support within itself, as well as inspiring the next generation of researchers. Many congratulations to the award winners and all involved!鈥�

The Forum Co-Chairs would like to thank MAPS Research and the Faculty for their financial and organisational support and the help from the Forum members.

More on the winners and their amazing work鈥�

Alec Owens, Research Fellow, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Winner of Research Excellence Award
Alec has been a longstanding contributor to the internationally-renowned UCL ExoMol molecular spectroscopic database, which provides essential molecular data for the global exoplanet community and supports significant scientific discoveries. His work has resulted in extensive data on 15 molecules, with notable contributions on carbonyl sulphide being submitted to the HITRAN database for use in climate change monitoring. He also developed the LiDB database to model low-temperature plasmas, enhancing the efficiency of various scientific and industrial applications.

Gao Xuan, PhD, Dept of Chemistry
Winner of Research Excellence Award
Gao鈥檚 groundbreaking research in system optimization for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) has resulted in over 30 publications, including 10 high-impact papers as first/co-first author, including cover stories. His name is included in the Top Downloaded Article Author in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. His innovative strategies for "kinetics optimization" in electrolytes and "decoupling enhancement" in cathode materials have enabled AZIBs to achieve record-breaking specific capacity, addressing the "Trilemma" of specific capacity, cycle stability, and electrode mass loading.

Gianluca Pescaroli, Associate Professor, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Winner of Research Excellence Award
Gianluca completed his PhD 澳门历史开奖记录 in 2018 and has since made significant contributions to the field of cascading risk, including co-founding and leading the Research Group on Cascading Disasters. He has published three seminal papers and secured over 拢1M funding for 2023/24. He leads the Horizon AGILE project and is co-PI for ESA MULTIHAZARD and CIRCLE projects and has contributed to UN strategic documents, supporting a network of Chief Resilience Officers, and being featured on the BBC.

Thaisa Comelli, Research Fellow, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Winner of Research Excellence Award
Thaisa has significantly advanced global understandings of inclusive, future-oriented, risk-sensitive urban planning, influencing policy and practice in disaster risk reduction. She developed a people-centred methodology that integrates diverse marginalised perspectives and her work has led to significant professional advancements, capacity-strengthening engagements in multiple countries in the Global South.

Lucy Maun, PhD, Dept of Science and Technology Studies
Winner of Teaching Excellence Award
As a former MSc student and current PhD and PGTA, Lucy developed an Science and technology Studies-themed board game called "Thesis Quest: Escape to the Ivory Tower," for her department. This innovative teaching method encourages interdisciplinarity and familiarizes students with the dissertation-writing process in a fun and inclusive way. The game has been well-received, integrated into the curriculum, and accepted as a workshop at the EASST/4S 2024 conference to promote its use beyond UCL.

Louisa Acciari, Research Fellow, Dept of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Winner of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award
As Women and Marginalised Genders鈥� Officer for Independent Workers of Great Britain at the University of London, Louisa launched a women's group for discussing workplace violence and harassment, particularly aiding migrant and racialised workers in outsourced roles.聽 In collaboration with United Voices of the World, the group provided collective training on the causes of violence and harassment, women's rights, and addressing gender-based discrimination. Following positive feedback, an inter-branch Women and Marginalised Genders committee was established to extend this support across various sectors.

Deborah Tangunan, Research Fellow, Dept of Earth Sciences
Winner of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award
Deborah demonstrated her commitment to promoting EDI principles through organizing the first-ever Culture Day in the Department of Earth Sciences. As the new Ethnic Diversity Network Lead, she facilitated an inclusive event that celebrated diverse cultural backgrounds, receiving enthusiastic participation and positive feedback from approximately 50 attendees. The event's success has inspired the department to make it an annual tradition, further fostering an inclusive academic environment.

Megan Joseph, PhD, London Centre for Nanotechnology
Winner of Outreach and Communication Award
During her PhD, Megan engaged in various outreach activities, notably through the Orbyts initiative, where she led an A-level research project, securing funding and resulting in publishable findings. she now manages other PhD students' Orbyts projects. As a Life Sciences Widening Participation Assistant, she created lesson plans integrating science and art. Additionally, during a PhD internship with MedCity, she analyzed education and training in Life Sciences, facilitating connections and influencing policy through a published report.

Fern Pannell, PhD, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Winner of Outreach and Communication Award
Fern is currently working on the AWAKE Experiment at CERN, which explores accelerating electrons using plasma. Recognizing the public's concerns about particle physics, she created a 15-minute documentary titled "Plasma Wakefield Acceleration with AWAKE" to explain the science and benefits of their research. She wrote, presented, directed, and edited the video, which will be shared by CERN's Press Office with their 4.7 million followers. Additionally, she has promoted AWAKE within UCL and given talks to undergraduate physicists. She also won the 2024 IOP Particle Accelerator and Beams Early Career Poster Prize for her work.

The HoSCos Team: Catherine Lucas, Antonia Belli and Scott Keir, PhDs, Dept of Science and Technology Studies
Winners of Community Work Award
Cathyerine, Antonia and Scott devised and launched at the beginning of the academic year the History of Science Conversations (HoSCos), a regular series of lunchtime conversations聽fostering connections among PhD students, staff, and the broader academic and non-academic history community. Launched to enhance networks post-Covid, HoSCos supports PhD students in exploring career pathways and building community. Over two terms, six lunchtime conversations featured diverse guests from academia, governments and other sectors. The series received positive feedback for its high-quality seminars and networking opportunities. Cathy, Antonia and Scott aim to recruit more PhD students to continue and embed HoSCos in the department culture, benefiting the STS community and students' professional networks.

Ina Bradic, PhD, Dept of Chemistry
Winner of Community Work Award
Ina took the initiative in successfully leading her lab group鈥檚 application for the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze Award, driving and managing this project from inception to completion. Her work resulted in streamlined equipment booking, reduction of cold storage needs and energy consumption, improved understanding of waste segregation and decreasing the overutilisation of clinical waste. She also fostered collaboration with the Sustainability department and inspired neighboring labs to adopt sustainable practices.

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