Nathalie Fernando, PhD student in the group who is part of the CDT in Advanced Materials Characterisation, presented her first poster at MC14 (14th International conference on materials chemistry) in Birmingham this week.

Nathalie is working on photon-matter interactions and in particular the effects of X-rays on the structural and electronic structure of catalyst materials. She combines X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, and compares results to DFT outputs, to gain an in-depth understanding of the processes involved. Nathalie is supervised by Anna and co-supervised by Rob Palgrave (UCL) and Andrew Cairns (ICL). The work includes a number of awesome collaborators, including Claire Murray (Diamond Light Source), Amber Thompson (University of Oxford), and David Scanlon (UCL).