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Each fellowship offers up to £8 million over ten years to enable exceptional mid-career researchers to establish world-leading research groups within UK universities. From over 600 applicants, Professor Kim Jelfs of Imperial College London is among just seven recipients in the inaugural cohort.

For further information Professor Jelfs can be contacted at [email protected]

Contribution from Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza, PhD, University of Southampton, Edan Bainglass, Paul Scherrer Institute, Caterina Barillari, ETH Zürich, Matthew Evans, University of Cambridge, Joseph Rudzinski, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and FAIRmat, Jörg Schaarschmidt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and MaterialDigital

Read about MADICES 2025 (pg: 77) - https://www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_files/CICAG%20Distillate%20Winter%202025-26%20FINAL.pdf

Contribution from Dr Ryan Greenhalgh, CTO, deepmirror, and Dr Tushar Modi, Research Scientist, deepmirror.

🖇️ pg 68: https://www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_files/CICAG%20Distillate%20Winter%202025-26%20FINAL.pdf

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This one-day conference brings together leaders in laboratory automation, analytical sciences, digital innovation, and computational chemistry to explore the practical and strategic steps required to build the lab of the future - one that delivers scientific excellence while meaningfully improving environmental impact.

"The usual argument in favour of continuing to use mol2 files is that they are the only standard chemical file format we have that supports partial charges, which are important for many tasks in computational chemistry. This is no longer the case."

Read this amazing piece in the latest issue of Distillate (pg: 60) - https://www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_files/CICAG%20Distillate%20Winter%202025-26%20FINAL.pdf

NFDI4Chem is playing a leading role in Germany in this regard: the consortium not only provides technical infrastructure but also shapes the discussion on standards, ontologies, and subject-specific data competencies, particularly through (inter)national networking.

🔗 Read more (pg-39): https://www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_files/CICAG%20Distillate%20Winter%202025-26%20FINAL.pdf