Lamprou Lab Blog

Last October, I had the opportunity to join the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) embedded within the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation ( CMAC ). As I am close to finishing my first year, I think it is a good idea to explain why it is really worth being four years PhD student in sunny Glasgow. When I joined, I didn’t have a clear idea about how DTC works, so I am going to introduce some of the differences between DTC program and a standard PhD.  *Best (funniest) Acronym of CMAC. Courtesy of Brucci Wareham     

Last October Ridade, a PhD visiting researcher from Purdue University (Indiana, USA), was working with us in CMAC at the University of Strathclyde as part of a recent collaboration network between both Universities. Ridade is currently working with a twin-screw granulator as the main processing equipment for her research, and he experience in this area introduced me to this new application. It was a great learning experience having someone from the other side of the world coming to share not just lab equipment and bench space but also personal experience and why not, fun in the lab! We spent long working hours that (of course) required long coffee breaks with all sort of good edible things such as tea cakes, muffins, biscuits, and many more! Not to miss, as well, occasional dinner breaks where take-away chips and soup were like the best thing since sliced bread. Of course not everything was lab work. We also had some free time to visit the lovely city of Edinburgh wher...

Dr Lamprou with two PhD students (Fraser and Laura) of the group.