Valentina Erastova

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Molecular Insights into Caprock Integrity of Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: Perspective on Hydrogen-Induced Swelling and Mechanical Response The geological storage of hydrogen (H2) requires reliable long-term caprock sealing, yet the nanoscale interactions between H2 and clay minerals remain critically underexplored, despite their importan...

Nice to start the year with a paper published from a collaboration started last year with Mehdi Ghasemi, supported by Clay Minerals Group of the @minersoc.bsky.social

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Submitting your paper mid December

Group's 1st paper out! CONGRATS to Delfina Pereira & all coauthors: Xiulan Xie, Kerstin Volz, Jürgen Belz @unimarburg.bsky.social, Sarah Stewart & Valentina @erastova.bsky.social, Tuğçe Beyazay, Harun Tüysüz @imdeamaterials.bsky.social, Nicole Paczia & Zainab Subrati @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

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👨‍🎓#PhD in my group @edinburghchem.bsky.social via E5 DTP

Nature-Inspired and Computationally-Informed Design of #Clay-#Biochar Systems for Heavy Metal Remediation 🌍

Supervised by Margaret Graham, Ondrej Masek & Valentina Erastova

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Deadline: 14 Dec 2025

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🌍👨‍🎓#PhD: Design of #Biochar for #Sequestration of Emerging Pollutants via E5 DTP @edinburghchem.bsky.social

Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek

Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 2025

Having missed Andrey Kalinichev’s talks this summer at both Goldschmidt and International Clay Conference due to overlap of our parallel sessions, it is great to finally catch up at small but scientifically charged @cecamevents.bsky.social in Vienna @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Talk at @cecamevents.bsky.social at @bokuvienna.bsky.social by recently defended Dr Hannah Pollak on ClayCode - software she developed during her PhD at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode
Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987

Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!

Photo tax of a very happy and proud supervisor

Extra special day in the group @edinburghchem.bsky.social y’day

Congratulations to Dr Audrey Ngambia🎓 for a brilliant PhD defence!

Thank you for joining my group & trusting me as very new PI that we can make these pesky biochar models - we did it thanks to your dedication and hard work🍾

Congratulations to our PgT students of @edinburghchem.bsky.social for completing their studies! I am extra happy to see that students undertaking #compchem projects - Yifei and Samuel (our group) - have won awards for best taught part and best project talk! 🏆🥳

Yesterday we were visited by Ellen Porter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophical Transactions A of the @royalsocietypublishing.org, to discuss real hurdles of #publishing in #science with our #PhD & #PostDoc at @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social

The excellent hybrid set up at @cecamevents.bsky.social HQ allows us to start day 3 with a fascinating talk about #biochar plastic phases by Rob Johnson from University of Hawaii who is 12h earlier than us

A must have when in switzerland 🫕

Very interesting and important work presented by Audrey Ngambia on developing #porous #biochar #models and #CO2 capture. Very lucky to be her supervisor😊

Manuel Garcia-Perez kicking off the second day of #biochar #modelling workshop @cecamevents.bsky.social

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Great end of day one of our workshop - many new connections were made. What a pleasure to bring together scientists in the field of #biochar - experimentalists, engineers and modellers.

We had a fantastic day of talks and discussions at @cecamevents.bsky.social HQ - great facilities to support productive meetings and interactions!

The workshop "Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application" has started in Lausanne!
After a short welcome by CECAM and the organisers, V. Sierra Jimenez, C. M. Grottola & P. Giudicianni have kicked off today's program.
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Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling

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Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos!

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#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪

Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us!

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Another day from @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip

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I have a badge and, therefore, I am working

Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam

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Home 🖤

After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home