News
09/05/2017 Eva is awarded the 2017 RSC Corday Morgan Prize
05/05/2017 We welcome Marichu Rodriguez from the Garcia-Alvarez group in Oviedo
University which will be working with us for four months funded by Eva’s SRUK
Emerging Talent award
02/05/2017 Congratulations to Marco de Tullio on passing his PhD viva! Next stop for Marco is
his wedding in Majorca in a 3 weeks and many of us will be there too!
20/04/2017 Alberto’ work on the catastrophic cleavage of saturated NHCs is accepted for
publication in Angewandte Chemie
26/04/2017 Eva’s birthday and two papers accepted in the same day! Congratulations to Lewis
and his exciting ferrate complexes (Dalton Trans) and to Marina and her gallium-
induced activation chemistry (Forum Article in Inorg Chem)
31/03/2017 Our very own Iron Man, Dr. Lewis Maddock leaves the group, we wish him all the
best for his future!
29/03/2017 Eva visits Oxford to give a talk as part of the Organometallic and Main-Group
Chemistry Seminar Series
28/03/2017 Laia’s work on stabilizing sensitive anions using a Mg clamp appears published in
Chemical Communications! Well done Laia!
27/03/2017 Eva gives a seminar at the University of Reading.
08/03/2017 We all enjoy the first Athena SWAN lecture in the Department delivered by the
inspiring and thought-provoking Professor Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh)
06/03/2017 Eva visits Janssen Pharmaceutica (Belgium) to discuss ongoing collaborations and
deliver a research seminar. Thanks Vittorio for organizing such an enjoyable visit!
01/03/2017 We welcome Samantha Orr as a new postdoctoral fellow in the group to work in a
project fully funded by Janssen Pharmaceutica
04/02/2017 Eva speaks at SRUK event at Glasgow University as part of the celebrations of
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
18/03/2016 Eva gives a lecture at LCC-CNRS Toulouse (http://www.lcc-toulouse.fr/lcc/)
29/02/2016 Alberto’s and Zoe’s paper on magnesiate SET reactivity in Dalton Trans., selected
as a hot paper
(http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2016/DT/C5DT04044B#!divAbstract)
20/02/2016 Our paper on alkali-metal effects in manganate chemistry is now online
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201504956/abstract)
03/01/2016 A new Marina arrives to the Hevia group! Marina Hevia Honeyman is born!
Congratulations to Gordon and Eva on the arrival of their second daughter!
28/12/2015 Marina’s new paper on alkali-metal manganate chemistry is accepted for
publication in Chemistry European Journal and selected as VIP. Well done Marina!
18/12/2015 Congratulations to Andy for passing his second year viva
13/12/2015 Marina is away to Pacifichem (Hawaii) to present her poster entitled
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilised Lithium Gallates: Synthetic, Structural and
Reactivity Insights! Enjoy the conference and remember to come back!
11/12/2015 Congratulations to Laia for passing her second year viva with flying colours
08/12/2015 Ross McLellan joins the group as a new PDRA. Welcome to the team Ross!
20/11/2015 Congratulations to Zoe and Alberto. Their work on SET reactions of sodium
magnesiate reagents is accepted in Dalton Trans in its Main Group
Transformations themed issue!
08/11/2015 Eva gives a talk at Durham University
03/11/2015 Eva becomes a member of the International Advisory Board of Eur. J. Inorg.
Chem.
30/10/2015 Eva gives a talk at the 6th Workshop on New Perspectives in Asymmetric and
Organometallic Chemistry at the Universitat de Valencia, Spain.
06/10/2015 Welcome to our Final Year Students Lynsay Chambers and Stuart Dargo.
29/09/2015 Welcome to Michael Fairley and Victoria Pollard who have just joined the group
as 1st year postgraduate students.
26/09/2015 We say goodbye to one of our PDRAs, Tracy Nixon. We wish her all the best in
her new adventures in Chemistry!
21/09/2015 Our cover picture in ACIE appears online, ’Spooky NHC Chemistry with evidence
of “paranormal activity” just in time for Halloween! 👻
15/09/2015 Group’s Twitter account @EvaHeviaGroup goes live
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295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK