Juliana gave an invited talk ("Exploring surfaces and interfaces with first-principles quantum mechanical simulations") at the MMM Hub Conference & User Meeting 2024 in Uxbridge, UK (October 2024).
Juliana has joined the editorial board of the Physica Scripta journal (October 2024).
Hearty congratulations to Edward Black who passed his viva with minor corrections (September 2024).
Juliana served as external examiner for a PhD oral viva examination conducted at Imperial College London, UK (September 2024).
Juliana gave a talk titled "Designing Organic/2D Heterostructures for Photovoltaic Applications" at the 7th TYC Energy Materials Workshop: From Data to Discovery of New Energy Materials, held at Imperial College London, UK (July 2024).
Our joint work, "Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition", with Dr Balakrishnan's group has been published in the journal Nanotechnology (July 2024). #publications
The third edition of the Workshop on Materials for Sustainability at Keele University, organized by Dr. Juliana Morbec and Dr. Nilanthy Balakrishnan, was a great success, featuring interesting talks and insightful discussions (July 2024).
Juliana served as external examiner for a Master oral viva examination conducted at Federal University of Itajuba, Brazil (July 2024).
Juliana presented her group's work on the effect of defect and strain on the electronic properties on wurtzite ZnS at the UK Semiconductor 2024 conference in Sheffield, UK (July 2024).
Congratulations to Edward Black and Juliana Morbec for their work "Effect of molecular rotation and concentration on the adsorption of pentacene molecules on two-dimensional monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides" which has been published in the Electronic Structure journal (June 2024). #publications
Juliana presented her group's work on the interation between pentacene molecules and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides at the 37th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-37) in Harrogate, UK (June 2024).
Juliana has been awarded an open badge by the UKRN Open Research Programme for completing the "Reproducible Research Workshop and Train-the-Trainer" delivered by Griffith University (June 2024).
Juliana gave a talk about the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize our economy at the Pint of Science Stoke-on-Trent 2024 (May 2024). #outreach
Juliana served as independent chair for a PhD oral viva examination conducted at Keele University, UK (April 2024).
Dr. Juliana Morbec and Dr. Nilanthy Balakrishnan discussed renewable energy sources with children and adults on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024 on 11th February 2024 in Newcastle-under-Lyme (Feb 2024). #outreach
Juliana has joined the International Programme Committee of the 37th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-37), which will take place in Harrogate, UK, from 17 to 21 June, 2024 (January 2024)
Juliana has joined the RSC Solid State Chemistry Group as an ordinary member (January 2024).
Juliana had the pleasure to present her group's work on the design of organic/2D heterostructures for photovoltaic applications at the RSC Next Generation Materials for Solar Photovoltaics 2024 conference held in London, UK (January 2024).