Welcome, Phillip Broadwith, Chemistry World

Professor Jason Love, Professor of Molecular Inorganic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Modern technologies depend on metals from across the periodic table and their recycling is crucial for an environmentally benign and societally beneficial circular economy. This session will highlight metal recycling from electronic waste with a focus on the recycling of gold and separation of the rare-earth elements.

Kit Chapman, Freelance writer

To celebrate the 150^th year of the periodic table, Kit will explore the edge of known chemistry and reveal how teams around the world are racing to create the latest elements.

Professor Andrea Sella, UCL

This talk will explore how mercury came to underpin the sciences, and why it is one of the key indicators of change to our planet

Dr June McCombie, Senior Research Officer, The University of Nottingham

Using telescopes to explore the boundaries of our universe and the chemistry taking place there 

Chemistry plays a crucial role in controlling the evolutionary cycle where stars are formed from vast clouds of gas and dust, then age and then die either simply by cooling down or in the spectacular brilliance of an exploding star. We will take a look at how astrochemists explore this cosmos using the tools of a chemist and an astronomer.

Sarah Wilson, Technical Manager, Sellafield Ltd

A brief review of the nuclear processing methods which have been carried out over the past 70 years and a look at what the future holds. Including the challenges of reprocessing, the wastes produced and how those wastes can be reused.

Julie Franklin, Career and Professional Development Adviser, Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Finding someone to fund your ideas is crucial for all scientists. Just having a good idea isn’t enough, you have to sell your vision to the funder. This session will show you how to write grant proposals to access research and business funding.