My Research Poster: Development of Photovoltaic Cells as Educational Material
Making a research poster is quite a challenge, as I discovered when I opened the template and realised how large an A0 piece of paper is. Balancing the content for readability and saying what you really want to say is a tricky thing to do, as well as making sure to communicate with figures and adding pictures.
The extra challenge is in making sure it's understandable to those outside your field, a key aim for me in this scholarship. Accessibility to scientific information in terms of access to papers is improving with open access journals, but often the language remains obscure and archaic, hindering non-specialists' understanding. That's where posters come in to bridge the gap, and it's especially useful if the maker of said poster is there to explain it, as things often are at conferences.
I'm here (albeit in virtual form) to answer any of your questions, so please do reach out!
I'm a chemist in my final year of the MChem with Industrial Placement programme at the University of St Andrews. My research focused on improvements to a Dye-Sensitised Solar Cell (DSSC) process used in the St Andrews undergraduate laboratory. For a brief overview, see my poster, or for a deeper dive you can read my research essay. My six week project was with _makesense Colombia and Picacho con futuro in Medellín to create socially innovative solutions to the challenges of sustainability and circular economy, designing and delivering workshops to understand what these concepts meant to the people and then to explore ways in which their lives intersect with the natural world.
Academic Interests
I'm currently researching solid-state materials including hexagonal tungsten bronzes and their structure-property relationships under selective doping. Outside of my research project, I'm also taking courses in catalysis, asymmetric synthesis and macromolecular bonding interactions. In my degree, I've also studied some astronomy and astrophysics - there's nothing like a good night looking at the stars!
Personal Interests
Outside of academic life, you'll find me always up for a board game (I was Secretary of a board game society once). I'm learning guitar, doing my best to pick French back up after a few years and have always been a great fan of cooking delicious food!
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