Shurui Miao Wins ISIS Springboard Award
The Award
ISIS Neutron and Meuon Source is a world-leading centre for research at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire. It produces intense beams of neutrons and muons that enable materials to be studied at the atomic and molecular level, offering insights that other techniques cannot. The facility serves an interdisciplinary community of several thousand academic and industrial researchers, from the UK and overseas.
ISIS created the Springboard Awards in 2024 to support and encourage early-career researchers to use neutrons and muons in their research. The first three winners of this award were Shurui Miao (University of Oxford), Jennifer Johnstone-Hack (University of Sheffield) and William Sharratt (University of Liverpool). Their awards will each last three years and will provide the winners with funding to present their research at conferences and the opportunity to spend extended periods of research at ISIS' Harwell campus.
Dr Shurui Miao
Shurui Miao is a Career Development Research Fellow (CDRF) in Chemistry at St John's. The College's CDRF programme offers early-career academics an outstanding opportunity to build a research profile within a collegiate community. (Learn more about the programme here.)
Dr Miao works with ionic liquids, a novel class of solvent which may enable more sustainable chemical processes. Neutrons can probe molecular-level arrangements and sub-diffusive dynamics within these materials, shedding new light on their functional behaviour and design rules.
Commenting on his award, Dr Miao said:
" The Springboard Award provides an excellent opportunity to collaborate with scientists at ISIS, to make new connections and to learn new neutron techniques. This award will greatly boost my ability as an early career researcher to secure future funding and demonstrate independence. " Dr Shurui Miao
For a lay summary of Dr Miao's research, visit our CDRF research blog page.
Congratulations on your award!