M. L. Baker Group

Research Associate in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry:Manchester

Prof Dave Mills and I are currently advertising two 24-month PDRAs.

Application deadline: 19th August.

PDRA in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry:
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PDRA in Advanced Spectroscopy and Magnetism:
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06.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to @nathan-alcock.bsky.social on successfully obtaining his PhD studying actinide electronic structure and bonding with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. His thesis work includes this paper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... and others that will follow shortly.

30.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lana next to her research poster on [redacted]

Lana presented her actinide X-ray spectroscopy research this week at HPC-CONEXS at Diamond Light Source (poster content redacted until published!).

23.05.2025 15:16 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Last week, we welcomed the first external users (University of Glasgow) of our cryostat for actinide samples. The team conducted HERFD using I18 and the Active Materials Lab at Diamond Light Source @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

22.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have a PhD opening as part of this programme: esrf.gestmax.eu/1869/1/phd-s...

22.04.2025 10:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(UoM - Peking University) Rare Earth Covalency and Electronic Structure Quantification with Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (UoM - Peking University) Rare Earth Covalency and Electronic Structure Quantification with Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Like f-elements in unusual oxidation states?

Please look at this 4-year #PhD position between Manchester and Peking University to isolate formally divalent molecules and determine their electronic structures with advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

15.04.2025 09:19 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you to the team at ID20 for supporting our Th RIXS experiment this week; excellent beamline with very impressive energy resolution @esrf.fr

14.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Valence-delocalized trithorium nanocluster superatoms with open-shell exalted diamagnetism - Nature Chemistry Superatoms are metal clusters that collectively behave like an atom, but they usually require metal–metal bonding and thus they are based on main group or transition metals. Now it has been shown that...

Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @natchem.nature.com !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1