“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.” - Thomas Edison I have never before seen a PhD described so perfectly.

My second first-author paper is officially submitted yippee 🤩🤗

Throwing away all my PhD samples is both satisfying and terrifying 🥲

Something not enough people know: When presenting a PowerPoint, if someone asks “can you go to slide 6”, just press 6 then enter. No need to scroll through all your slides 🤗

Honestly the worst thing about living abroad is that I still get notified of everyone’s take away order in the family group chat

Convocation day! Got a little teary thinking of my PhD journey: beginning at Bristol Chemistry and then moving across the world and transferring to UniversityOfVictoria to continue working w/ Ian Manners Research Group. Very proud of what I have achieved/overcome and super thankful for the people around me 🥹

I’m giving a talk today at #CCCE2022 in Calgary! Stop by if you want to learn more about VoxCell BioInnovation’s human-like cancer tissue models and how we create them using 3D bioprinting and two-photon polymerization! Talk at 4 pm in Glen 201.

In case you were wondering, the popping of popcorn follows a Gaussian distribution.

The second paper to come from my PhD work is now published and available through open access!!! This work on electrospinning of 1D micelles results from a collaboration between UniversityOfVictoria and Universität Bayreuth - thanks to all my co-authors for helping make it happen! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ma…

Yesterday, VoxCell attended the opening of the BioInnovation Hub in Victoria - a collaborative workspace provided by UVic in partnership with Vancouver Island Life Sciences (VILS) aimed to advance health and life sciences innovation. #victoria #biotech #womenintech #bioprinting

Thanks for choosing #Macromolecular #Chemistry & #Physics for the publication of your work! Read it now: buff.ly/3qNL3UJ #polymers #openaccess

Another chapter of my PhD work is published… and this time in J. Am. Chem. Soc. !!! 🤩 This project, although carried out in my final year, taught me so much about self-assembly and ended up becoming a story with twists and turns which I very much enjoyed! Yay science!! 🙌

Uniform Length-Tunable Biodegradable Block Copolymer Nanofibers w/ Polycarbonate Core via Living Polymerization-Crystal-Driven Self-assembly Ian Manners Research Group UVic Science #Biodegradable #Block #Copolymer #Nanofibers #Polycarbonate #livingPolymerization pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check out our collaborative paper on the first polyphosphinoborane block copolymers! Great work by Matt Matthew Wiebe Diego Diego Garcia Hernandez Charlotte Dr. Charlotte Ellis 🧪 and Lei Shixing Lei in collaboration with James and Alex from Andrew Weller Chemistry at York doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

👏Congratulations to #UVic professor of chemistry Ian Manners Ian Manners Research Group, for receiving the E.W.R. Steacie Award! The award honours Manners distinguished contribution to chemistry in Canada. Chemistry@UVic UVic Research TIPS_SPIIE #CFIfunded 🔗 ow.ly/l1KB50MsTqe

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10/10 science jokes at UniversityOfVictoria !

The world has lost an incredible scientist & a wonderful person. I owe a lot to Ian. He was an excellent mentor through my PhD 2016-2022. Moving to Canada with his group was a no-brainer. I always enjoyed our chats whether on science or birds - his passion for life was infectious