Maja Dunstan

💫 Quantum Phenomena and Emergent Properties in MOFs ⚛️

is a symposium at the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in 🇩🇰 this summer, organized by myself and Lars Öhrström.

🏃‍➡️ We welcome submissions for oral contributions by Sunday, March 1 ⏰

iccc2026.com

#MOFs #coordinationchemistry

Feels fitting that I was doing some rhenium chemistry today!

Super cool! Can’t wait to see it published

PhD position in the McPherson Group at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Southern Denmark. Apply by February 8th 2026

📣PhD Position now available📣
🗓️Application Deadline 8.2.2026
📌The position will be hosted at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense)
🧪You will develop metal–organic frameworks as platforms for multi-electron redox chemistry
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📣 we are hiring!

We are looking for candidates for a fully funded PhD position at EHU to study organic radicals and charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms using computational chemistry methods @ec.europa.eu
👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

📅 Deadline: April 17

👇 Details below, please RT

www.danielreta.com/phd-computat...

It was a great poster, congrats!

👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework"

🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.

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💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪

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⏰ Deadline: November 30

Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

🎓 Early Announcement:
The 10th European Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ECMM 2026) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark — Aug 17–20, 2026.
Plenary & keynote talks + great opportunities for early-career researchers.
🌐 www.conferencemanager.dk/ecmm

#ECMMCopenhagen #MolecularMagnetism #Copenhagen

🧪 Simplicity engineered for magnetism 🧲

📢 Preprint: Cr(pyrazine)₃ - maybe the simplest MOF with potential voids known. Built from Cr(III) + radical pyrazine linkers, this perovskite analogue shows magnetic interactions rivaling the strongest known in inorganic materials, stabilizing order above RT.

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

LINXS Young Researchers' Symposium III - Hard Matter — LINXS Join us for the YRI Hard Matter Symposium at LINXS – a 2½-day event combining hands-on beamline insights, career development, and networking opportunities for early-career researchers working with syn...

The Young Researcher Symposium for Hard Matter research is now open for registration! This free 2½-day event is designed specifically for early-career researchers working with or interested in synchrotron and neutron techniques.
Register: www.linxs.se/events/2025/...

Deadline alert! Symposia submissions for #ICCC46 close September 15 at midnight.

This is your chance to shape the program for Odense 2026. 🌍✨

Submit here 👉 iccc2026.com

Periodic in time though, not in space!

They were fantastic! Until inevitably someone would remove too many rings and drop a flask full of compound into the water 😅

We certainly had the electrical versions of Ure’s steam bath mentioned in the article when I was teaching undergrad chem!

The Carlsberg Foundation was founded by the brewer who started Carlsberg beer! So I think it still counts as being named for the beer 🍻

Research Associate in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry:Manchester As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

We are recruiting! Two 24 month postdoc positions are available with @m-l-baker.bsky.social and I, one mainly synthesis and the other measurements of lanthanide SMMs. Links below, deadline 19th Aug - please re-post:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Try This at Home - Magnet Academy Hey, kids! Do try these cool science activities at home! They’re easy, fun and most can be done with stuff you have around the house.

Easy, free, fun for kids in the final days of summer- check out our "Try This at Home" activities!

We are looking for candidates to host for EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellowships. If you are interested in applying and you meet all the criteria on the link below please get in touch with me by e-mail. Deadline 16th August. www.se.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

International PhD scholarship round for 2026 is open at ANU. Aspiring scholars with Masters degree, or equivalent (eg Australia/NZ Hons), interested in computational chemistry, quantum information, molecular spins, vibronic coupling, or something in that vein - get in touch!

That's spectacular! Where is it?

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖
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If you ever figure this one out, please let me know 😂

⏰ Only three more days to apply for an open PhD position in lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪

🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📖 You can explore our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

Helen Dick Megaw and the Dynamic Lives of Inorganic Molecules. In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that employed barium titanate (BaTiO3), one of a small family of molecu...

Crystallographer Helen Dick Megaw was born 118 years ago today. Her studies of the structure of perovskites in the 1940s and 1950s culminated in her 1957 book Ferroelectricity in Crystals which explained their ability to produce electricity and store information.

tinyurl.com/mr429bx3

#WomenInSTEM

There are heaps of interesting short reads in the Women in Science Archive for anyone interested in reading about some of the pioneering women across all fields of science and mathematics

This is crazy! Did ACS give a reason?

PhD scholarship in switchable f-block–organic framework materials - DTU Chemistry PhD scholarship in switchable f-block–organic framework materials. The PhD project will focus on the design, synthesis, and characterization of new types of metal-organic network structures, which inc...

👋 We are excited to share an open PhD position in 4f/5f chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at the Technical University of Denmark!🧪

🔗 See more and apply here:
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📅 Deadline: May 30
📖 Find our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org/articles/

Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet Engineering van der Waals (vdW) crystals leverages control of the confinement and transport of charge, spin, and heat in 2D atomic layers. This study introduces a new function by altering valence stat...

🎉 Just out in Chem! @cp-chem.bsky.social

"Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet"

👉 See: www.cell.com/chem/abstrac...

for materials synthesis, and lots of electron, (high-pressure) X-ray, and neutron diffraction and spectroscopy, magnetism and transport.