A week ago, it was the last day in the lab of our friend and colleague Anoop Thomas, who spent more than 5 years among us. We will all miss his good mood and curiosity, his knowledge in chemistry, his assistance and availability for the younger students and more generally, for all people in the group… but we are very happy for him that he was offered a great position of assistant professor at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. We wish him and his family all the best for the future and will keep in touch !

A new postdoctoral researcher joined the group one week ago : Sudipta Saha is a physicist with specialization in optical physics and photonics. He received his integrated MS-PhD in physical sciences from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. Subsequently, he conducted his postdoctoral research at the Florida International University, USA. Welcome to him !

We have the pleasure to welcome a new phD student coming from India, Shahana Nizar. She completed her master degree from IISER Thiruvananthapuram in June 2020 with chemistry as major subject and physics as minor subject. During her master thesis, she has been working on the chiroptical properties of aggregates, under the supervision of Pr. George Thomas.

We have the pleasure to welcome two new postdoctoral researchers in our group :

• Dr Sandeep Kulangara, who completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research inThiruvananthapuram and then worked two years and a half at the Government Victoria College Palakkad as an assistant professor in chemistry.
• Dr Soh Kushida, who completed his PhD at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg under the supervision of Prof. Uwe H. F. Bunz on March 2020 and has been since April 2020 a superlative postdoc (SPD) of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.