Nicholas Ballard

🎄✨ Season’s Greetings ✨🎄 This year, the CINEMA Doctoral Training Program made remarkable strides in research, collaboration, and innovation. Thank you to our researchers, mentors, and partners for making 2024 a success! Happy Holidays! 🎅🎁 #MerryChristmas #Innovation

📌 Day 2: Dr. Yoshi Marien (Univ. of Antwerp) delivered a deep dive into the kinetic Monte Carlo technique. 👏 Special thanks to Dr. Nicholas Ballard for organizing and to MSCA for their generous support! 🚀 cinema-dn.eu #MarieCurieActions #PolymerScience #PhDLife

🎓✨ The #CINEMADN Project hosted an inspiring free course for PhD students and researchers in Lyon! 🌍🤝 📌 Day 1: Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou (POLYMAT) introduced deterministic modeling with hands-on guidance using Predici software.

Thrilled to feature Prof. Alexei Lapkin from @Cambridge_Uni, a leading mind in #CINEMAProject! Through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie initiative, he’s training PhD candidates to advance AI-driven polymer science for a more sustainable future. 🌍 #MarieCurieActions #AIinChemistry

🎉 Introducing Prof. Alexander Mitsos! 🎉 As one of the leaders in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie CINEMA project on AI in polymerization, Prof. Mitsos brings vast expertise in chemical processes, optimization, and systems engineering. PhD, MIT Director, RWTH Aachen University

Thrilled to introduce Dr. Yoshi W. Marien, supervisor & training committee member for the EU-funded CINEMA program at @UGent! 🎓 🔬 Expert in #PolymerReactionEngineering, combining classical methods & #MachineLearning to innovate polymer colloids.

Learn to use Predici & Monte Carlo simulations to tackle complex polymerization challenges. Don’t miss out! 🔗 Register Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1SFx… Know us: cinema-dn.eu/ #CINEMAproject #MarieCurieActions #PhDTraining #Polymerization #MachineLearning #Workshop

🚀 Exciting Workshop Alert! 🚀 The CINEMA project, funded by the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, is hosting a FREE hands-on workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Polymerization Processes for PhD students! 🧪 🗓️ When: Oct 28-29, 2024 📍 Where: Lyon, France

🌟 Reflecting on a year of growth! 🌟 Our PhD candidates underwent intensive training in chemistry, engineering, math, CS, communication & more. 🚀 Highlights: Multiobjective Optimization @ UPV/EHU Applied Numerical Optimization @ RWTH Aachen

🌟 Welcome Marah! Our new 9th doctoral candidate from Palestine at RWTH Aachen University, Germany! With a background in renewable energy engineering, she now leads training methods for hybrid models in the CINEMA project's emulsion polymerization.

🌟 Meet Malavika!🎨 From India to Spain, she's making waves in chemistry at UPV/EHU. As part of the CINEMA project, Malavika is developing a machine-learning model to revolutionize polymer research.

🚀 Meet Amoo! 🌟 From Nigeria to the University of the Basque Country in Spain, he's a rising star in the field of chemistry. Passionate about personal development, he sees it as leveling up in a video game: challenging at first, but rewarding with growth.

🌟 Meet Liew Zheng Jie! 🚀 From Singapore to University of Cambridge, he's a trailblazer in chemical engineering! In the CINEMA project, he's revolutionizing polymer design with machine learning. Off-duty, he's on linguistic adventures through books, exploring new cultures.