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2024 LAD Early Career Award: Ilsa Cooke!

Congratulations to Ilsa for winning the 2024 Early Career Award from the Laboratory Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The LAD Early Career Award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field within 10 years of receiving their PhD.

The award recognizes Ilsa’s contributions to the discovery of new molecules in space and her work providing a detailed understanding of their reaction mechanisms, thermodynamics, and kinetics through elegant laboratory investigations.

The Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) is a multi-disciplinary division that encompasses experimental and theoretical research, and related observational astronomy and planetary science, with the objective of advancing our understanding of the fundamental processes that drive the Universe.

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Ilsa and Carina visit the ILTS!

Ilsa and Carina visited the Astrophysical Chemistry / Low Temperature Nanomaterial Science Group at the Institute of Low Temperature Science (Hokkaido University) in Sapporo, Japan this December. The group studies microscopic physical and chemical processes and evolutionary processes of materials at the atomic and nanoscale that occur in terrestrial and extraterrestrial low-temperature environments, using various experimental techniques.

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Best Early Career Paper Published in the IEC-2022 Conference Proceedings: Thomas Speak!

Congratulations to Tom for winning the prize for the “Best Early Career Paper Published in the IEC-2022 Conference Proceedings”, for his paper titled “Experimental Observation and Modelling of Contained Detonations of PE4: What is the Influence of Afterburn?”. This prize was awarded by The Institute of Physics: Shock Physics Group. This paper is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Future Developments in Explosives and Energetics: 1st International Explosives Conference, Chapter 18.

The International Explosives Conference (IEC) is an international conference for all professionals involved in the fundamental science of explosives and energetic materials. The focus of the conference is future developments and the principal themes for this 2022 inaugural event included (but were not limited to):

Energetic Materials and Characterisation
Manufacturing and Processing
Response to Stimuli
Advances in Experimental Techniques and Diagnostics
Theory, Modelling and Simulation