News and Vacancies

Vacancies

If you are interested in doing a PhD, please contact us to discuss available opportunities.

There are funding opportunities for sponsoring your work such as those offered by IRC, and Marie Curie Schemes. We are also interested in candidates who might qualify for CSC studentship.

If you are an undergraduate and want to do a summer research experience in our group, please contact Dr. Colavita directly; we have openings during June-September.

Latest News (@ColavitaGroup)

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  • November 2017: Well done Joana for an excellent PhD talk and thesis defense!! We look forward to your commencement :)

  • November 2017: Please welcome Mr. Swapnil Ingle to our group!

  • August 2017: The group delivers three presentations at Electrochem 2018 in Birmingham, great meeting!

  • August 2017: Please welcome our new group member, Dr. Alessandro Iannaci!

  • May 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Carlota Domiguez!! She has been awarded the highly competitive Marie Curie EDGE COFund fellowship!! She will work in our laboratory towards the design of new electrocatalysts for rechargeable batteries - Well done Carlota!

  • May 2017: Great representation of our group's work at the Spring EMRS - nice to be back in Strasbourg!! two talks and three posters plus Joana wins a Graduate Student Award: Congrats Joana!!!!

  • April 2017: Adam and Paula travel to the University of Rennes for a Ulysses research exchange in Dr. Barriere's laboratory.

  • March 2017: Finally back at Pittcon in Chicago after so many years. Great symposium on carbon materials organised by Dr. Lockett!

  • March 2017: Joana travels to Lisbon to work on cell-surface interactions in the group of Prof. Jorge Silva.

  • January 2017: We are happy to host Dr. Dilushan Jayasundara once again in the group for a research exchange visit!!! Welcome back Dilushan, it is great to have you in Dublin once again!

  • September 2016: Federico Zen and James Behan win student awards for best presentations at the 2016 Fall Meeting of the EMRS in Warsaw. Well done to both!!

  • September 2016: Joana Vasconcelos wins Gold Elsevier Young Student Award for best presentation at the 27th International Diamond and Carbon Materials Conference in Montpellier. We are grateful to Trinity College Dublin for sponsoring Joana's travel. Well done once again!!

  • June 2016: Dr. Kevin Metz continues his Visiting Academic appointment with a visit to our lab!

  • May 2016: Joana Vasconcelos wins a Best Postgraduate Presentation Award at the 2016 Dublin Chemistry Symposium!! Congratulations to Joana!!

  • May 2016: Please welcome Dr. Carlota Dominguez to our group.

  • April 2016: Work in collaboration with the Scanlan group is published in Nature Scientific Reports. Well done to all authors!

  • December 2015: Paula Colavita presents at the Annual Theme Seminar of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.

  • September 2015: Joana Vasconcelos presents at Thesis-in-Three. Great job!!

  • July 2015: Joana Vasconcelos attends the Summer School on Biomaterials Cell Membranes and Lipid Bilayers in Taormina, Italy.

  • May 2015: Federico Zen and Joana Vasconcelos present their work at the Spring EMRS 2015 in Lille.

  • May 2015: Dr. Kevin Metz is a Visiting Academic in our lab and we are seeing green!. Check our paper in ACS Sus Chem Eng!!

  • February 2015: Please welcome Dr. Leticia Esteban-Tejeda to our group.

  • January 2015: Welcome to our group to our new member Mr. Khairul Hoque.

  • November 2014: Please welcome Dr. Serban Stamatin to our group.

  • November 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Daniela Angione! She has been awarded a Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) by SFI. She will be working in our laboratory and in collaboration with Prof. Scanlan in order to develop a new sensing technology.

  • September 2014: Welcome to the group to our new members: Adam Myles, James Behan and Guido Ciapetti.

  • July 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Suoyuan Lian! He has been awarded the highly competitive Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (by IRC). He will join our laboratory in October 2014 - Welcome to our lab!

  • June 2014: More great news! James Behan has been offered an IRC studentship to support his postgraduate studies in our group. Well done James!

  • June 2014: Great news! Together with Prof. Scanlan's group we are awarded funding for an Innovation Partnership by Enterprise Ireland.

  • June 2014: Great news! We are awarded a Career Development Award (CDA) by SFI.

  • June 2014: Dr. Kevin Metz comes from Albion College (USA) to carry out research in our laboratory over the summer.

  • May 2014: The group attends E-MRS 2014 Spring Meeting in Lille, contributing two posters and two oral presentations.

  • January 2014: Paul Duffy has defended his PhD thesis and is now Dr. Duffy. Congratulations Paul!!!

  • December 2013: Deirdre Murphy has defended her PhD thesis and is now Dr. Murphy. Congratulations Deirdre!!!

  • July 2013: Deirdre Murphy is the proud recepient of the Robert A. Mayer Award from the American Carbon Society!!! The award allowed Deirdre to participate to the Carbon 2013 Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Well done Deirdre!!! See the newsbrief here.

  • June 2013: James Behan is awarded a prestigious Undergraduate Researcher Bursary from the Nuffield Foundation and the Royal Society of Chemistry to work in our laboratory over the summer. Congratulations to James!!

  • May 2013: Stephanie Sanders and her advisor Dr. Kevin Metz come from Albion College (Michigan, USA) to work in our lab.

  • January 2013: Great News! We are the proud recipients of an Investigator Project award from SFI.

  • December 2012: Great News! The group is awarded a Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) by SFI.

  • November 2012: Great News! The group, in collaboration with Dr. Scanlan is awarded a Commercialisation Fund grant by Enterprise Ireland.

  • July 2012: Mike, Stephanie and their advisor Dr. Metz come from Albion College (Michigan, USA) to work in our lab over the summer.

  • May 2012: Deirdre Murphy wins a Best Postgraduate Presentation Award at the 2012 Dublin Chemistry Symposium!! Congratulations to Dee!!!

  • May 2012: the group attends E-MRS 2012 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, contributing three posters and two oral presentations.

  • March 2012: Ronan Cullen wins first prize at the poster competion of Smart Surfaces 2012 !!! Congratulations to Ronan!

  • Jan. 2012: The group is awarded a Market Feasibility Award by Enterprise Ireland (in collaboration with Prof. Scanlan).

  • Dec. 2011: The group is awarded a Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) by SFI (in collaboration with Prof. Scanlan).

  • Dec. 2011: Work done in collaboration with Dr. Baker (Chemistry TCD) makes the cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry A !!

  • Oct. 2011: Prof. Colavita and Prof. Scanlan file a patent application !!! Two PhD students are co-inventors.

  • Sept 2011: We are awarded a project grant at the Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (in collaboration with Dr. Quinn)

  • Oct. 2011: Camille Auriault gives her first presentation at the DRHEA Undergraduate Research Conference in DCU. Camille is in the last picture at the bottom...

  • June 2011: Paul Duffy wins first prize at the poster competition of the 63rd Irish Universities Chemistry Colloquium in UCD !!!