Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).
10.00 – 18.00, SAFB G16 LT (Sir Alexander Fleming Building)
Welcome coffee from 09.30 in the concourse level 1
- Departmental talks sessions: 10.00 – 16.10 in SAFB G16 LT (coffee breaks in the concourse level 1).
- PhD students poster competition: 12.30 – 13.40 in SAFB 120-122 (lunch will be provided). Imperial staff and students will be able to vote for their favourite poster before the event.
- Panel session: 16.10 – 17.10 in SAFB 120-122.
- Awards from 17.15 with canapés and drinks reception in the concourse level 1.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to engage with our academics and postgraduate students. Please see the full programme below:
Programme
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome
Welcome and opening remarks by the Dean Professor Richard Craster.
10.05 – 10.35 Centre for Environmental Policy Showcase
- 10.05 – 10.20: Dr Caroline Howe (Senior lecturer) – Title of talk to be confirmed
- 10.20 – 10.35: Karl Scheifinger (PhD student) – Seeding Collective Climate Action: Co-creating Climate Mitigation Scenarios with the Public
10.35 – 11.20 Department of Mathematics Showcase
- 10.35 – 10.50: Dr Ed Cohen (Reader in Statistics) – Title of talk to be confirmed
- 10.50 – 11.05: Jose Giral Barajas (PhD student) – Modelling cellular resource accumulation using queuing theory
- 11.05 – 11.20: Bethany Clarke (PhD student) – Generating Cilia-like Dynamics through Structural Anisotropy
Coffee break (11.20 – 11.30)
11.30 – 12.30 Department of Life Sciences Showcase
- 11.30 – 11.45: Dr Claudia Contini (Lecturer in Biotechnology and Engineering Biology) – Synthetic Cells: from Soft Matter to Life-Like Behaviours
- 11.45 – 12.00: Martina Demurtas (PhD student) – Neural crest induction requires SALL4-mediated BAF recruitment to lineage specific enhancers
- 12.00 – 12.15: Theodore Brook (PhD student) – Title of talk to be confirmed
- 12.15 – 12.30: Ambre Bexter (PhD student) – Title of talk to be confirmed
12.30 – 13.40 Lunch and Poster session
13.40 – 14.40 Department of Chemistry Showcase
- 13.40 – 13.55: Dr David Ayuso Molinero (Senior Lecturer) – Why chiral light can barely tell left from right – and how to fix it by shaping it in 3D
- 13.55 – 14.10: Georgina Rai (PhD student) – A combined kinetic and computational analysis of the palladium-catalysed formylation of aryl bromides
- 14.10 – 14.25: Gem Flint (PhD student) – G-quadruplex structures mediate transcriptional reprogramming in drug-resistant ovarian cancer
- 14.25 – 14.40: Xixian Yi (PhD student) – Ultrasensitive Multiplexed Detection of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) induced Cancer Biomarker
Coffee break (14.40 – 14.50)
14.50 – 15.50 Department of Physics Showcase
- 14.50 – 15.05: Academic presenter to be confirmed soon – Title of talk to be confirmed
- 15.05 – 15.20: Bryony Lanigan (PhD student) – Atom interferometry for fundamental physics
- 15.20 – 15.35: Anthony Harwood (PhD student) – Making Objects Travel Faster than the Speed of Light
- 15.35 – 15.50: Edward Binns (PhD student) – Bridging the gap between the chiral and achiral. Imprinting chirality on achiral matter
15.50 – 15.55 Closing
Closing remarks by Professor Richard Craster.
Coffee break (15.55 – 16.10)
16.10 – 17.10 Why Should We Support Curiosity-Driven Research?
Panel discussion.
Chair: Professor Erhard Hohenester (Professor of Structural Matrix Biology, Department of Life Sciences).
Panel members will be announced soon.
17.15 – 18.00 Canapes reception and prizes
Awards will be given at 17.30.