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ACIS Newsletter – Issue 31, December 2022
Welcome
Dear Esteemed Members,
Welcome to our 31st issue of ACIS News! We produce a quarterly newsletter - sent around in February, May, August, and November (approximately) - to keep the wonderful members of ACIS informed of our initiatives and for members to directly communicate with our Society. We publish job announcements, meetings of interests to our society, career development opportunities, any exciting research that you would like to share with us and much more. To everyone up to date with the on-goings in our colloids society, please send your suggestions and items for the next newsletter to christine.browne@monash.edu or Stuart Brown at s3399895@student.rmit.edu.au.
President’s Corner
As this newsletter goes to press, I hope yours, or your students’ abstracts have been submitted for the upcoming 34ACSSSC. A tradition going back over 50 years and the launching pad for many colloid and interface science/engineering/technology careers, the power of this networking opportunity cannot be underestimated. All the more so as the first in-person ‘stucon’ since the Churchill conference three years ago. If you are at any stage of your PhD candidature, be sure to attend and have your eyes opened to the bigger picture and your future in it. Early career and established researchers are also strongly encouraged to attend. Registration doesn’t close until the 9th of January, but the organising committee would really appreciate your early registration for planning purposes.
At this time, the call for nominations for Director positions on the Board is open for 2023-2025. We have two Directors rotating off the Board at the next AGM so there is ample opportunity for other members to get involved. If we receive more than two nominations, there will be an election online prior to the AGM so that the new Director can be announced at the AGM. The AGM is being held at the 34ACSSSC at RMIT University on Thursday 2nd February 2023. In person and online attendance will be possible for members. For nomination you must be a financial member, and be nominated by two financial members of ACIS, using the form found here, and sent to the Secretary via acis.enquiries@gmail.com. Nominations will close on Monday 16th January 2023.
The Board is also looking for volunteers to organise future events including ACIS2024. Please drop us a line to find out what is involved, make a suggestion and/or volunteer. It is a rewarding experience to serve this community and you also never know if a future employer, referee or assessor will be impressed by your passion and ideas in the process.
At this time, I also note that applications are open for nominations for two important ACIS awards that are a great value-add to anyone’s CV:
- the ACIS Best Thesis Prize, awarded to the most outstanding Colloid and Interface Science PhD thesis in Australia and New Zealand (approved in the previous 13 months),
- the ACIS ECR Lectureship, awarded to an outstanding, recently appointed, colloid and interface research scientist (eligible to members with up to seven years full-time equivalent experience since completing their PhD at the time of nomination)
Applications are due by the 15th of January 2023. Details on eligibility and how to apply are available on the ACIS website using the links above. Do your student or colleague a favour and nominate them!
Finally, for academic colleagues - I would like to congratulate those who have been successful in recent national competitive grant rounds. I also pass on my commiserations for the many who missed out in this very tight funding environment. When you are ready, dust yourself off and consider resubmitting including your year of extra excellent pilot data and expert pre-review by surrounding colleagues. Often it is a repolished grant that gets funded! Thanks finally to all the supportive and constructive assessors in our research community.
Looking forward to catching up at RMIT early in the new year.
Erica Wanless (President)
News
34th Australian Colloid and Surface Science Student Conference
The Australasian Colloid and Interface Society (ACIS) is pleased to announce the 34th Australian Colloid and Surface Science Student Conference which will be held in the Melbourne CBD, Australia, from Tuesday 31st January - Friday 3rd February 2023. We encourage PhD students with an interest in colloid and interface science to attend as it is a great opportunity to present your work in an informal, supportive and friendly environment. ECRs and staff are also strongly encouraged to attend and support the community. To encourage a large participation from the community during these uncertain times the conference will be offered for in-person and online attendees; however, in-person attendance is strongly encouraged. Those who are able to attend in-person will also have the benefit of attending the many networking and social events planned for the conference.
Dates for your calendar
Conference Dates: 31st January – 3rd February 2023
Workshop: 31st of Jan.
Conference: 1st of Feb – 3rd of Feb.
Abstract Submission: Still open for poster presentations. Closed for oral presentations.
Registration closes: Monday 9th January 2023
For full details about pricing and registration we encourage you to view the conference registration page. The conference organisers would appreciate early registration, if possible, to help with planning and venue booking.
Conference webpage: colloids-ausnz.au/ACSSSC34
If you have any questions, please visit our contact page to get the relevant details.
We look forward to seeing you in Melbourne or virtually for the 34th ACSSSC meeting.
Kind regards,
Tamar Greaves, Saffron Bryant, Aaron Elbourne, Marta Krasowska, Christine Browne, Joe Berry, and Casey Thomas.
Conference
Organisers
IACIS - Highlight your Publication
IACIS has a column in their newsletter where research students can promote their recent published work. For your work to be included please follow these instructions:
The maximal length of
your text is ˝ A4. The text should be spelling checked and grammatically
correct. You can include 1 figure.
· Start with the title of the article.
· Tell who you are, in which group you
work and at which university.
· What is the topic of your PhD?
· What is the article about?
· Why are you proud of it? Or why
should we read it?
· Anything else you would like to share
· End with you can find the article
here: include the doi or link to the article
You can send your text or questions to Saskia Lindhoud: s.lindhoud@utwente.nl
Awards
The ACIS Awards
Applications are now open for two ACIS awards:
- the ACIS Best Thesis Prize, awarded to the most outstanding Colloid and Interface Science PhD thesis in Australia and New Zealand (over the previous 13 months),
- the ACIS ECR Lectureship, awarded to an outstanding, recently appointed, colloid and interface research scientist (up to seven years full-time equivalent experience since completing their PhD at the time of nomination)
Applications are due by the 15th of January 2023. Details on eligibility and how to apply are available on the ACIS website using the links above.
The ANBUG Awards
At the recent Australian Neutron Beam User Group / AINSE Neutron Scattering Symposium, two ACIS members were honoured with prizes. Congratulations to Dr Isaac Gresham (now at USyd) who received the ANBUG Outstanding PhD Prize for his thesis "Understanding complex polymer brush behaviour through improved reflectometry analysis methods" (UNSW and ANSTO, supervisors Stuart Prescott, Patrick Spicer, and Andrew Nelson). Congratulations also to Dr Andrew Nelson (ANSTO) who received the inaugural ANBUG Technical Award for outstanding contributions to the technical aspects of neutron scattering.
https://anbug.net/anbug-awards-for-2022-announced/
For more information on these fantastic awards follow the below link:
https://anbug.net/anbug-awards/
Opportunities
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Physical Chemistry
Specialization towards colloid and interface science studied by scattering methods
We would like to spread the word about a fantastic opportunity in the Division of Physical Chemistry as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Lund, Sweden. This position is at Lund University and applications close on the 22nd of January. Follow the link below for more information:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:556566/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Germany
For any recently graduated PhD candidates or post-docs this project is a wonderful opportunity to become involved in the latest and world leading neutron scattering developments at the European Spallation Source in Lund. For those who would like to bridge the computational to the experimental sides of membrane biophysics this would be an outstanding career opportunity. For more information follow the link below:
https://gneus.eu/topics-supervisors/topic-26/
Activities
Join our Awards, Communications, Conferences and Events Committees
ACIS needs its members to be actively engaged. Please let us know if you would like to be involved in the committees that will run the activities of the Society: Awards; Communications; Conferences and Events. Or if you would like to propose other activities we should be running. We especially invite students and early-career researchers to become involved. Please email your interest to acis.enquiries@gmail.com.
Visiting Scientist Register
Are you planning to host a visit by an outstanding scientist in the colloid and interface field? Why not let ACIS members know about the visit? We aim to keep track of visiting scientists, to facilitate their introduction to the Australasian scientific community. Please email details of the visit to acis.enquiries@gmail.com.
ACIS Membership
Please encourage your colleagues, students and industrial partners working in the field of colloids and interface to join us. General membership is $100 per annum. The membership year is from 1st March each year. Memberships paid after this date are valid until 28th February of the following year. More information is available on our website https://www.colloids-ausnz.au/.
Use Our LinkedIn
Group to Tell People Your News
ACIS is now present on LinkedIn. Please join our LinkedIn group and post discussion items on job ads, conference calls, and interesting facts about the wonderful world of colloid and surface science.
Or Tag your Friends and Colleagues
Share your next big breakthrough, job opportunity or beautiful science with the ACIS community by using twitter.com/colloids_AusNZ.
The Newsletter team signing off,
Christine Browne – christine.browne@monash.edu
Stuart Brown – s3399895@student.rmit.edu.au