October 2023: Congratulations to Dr Qian Li for being awarded her PhD as well as winning the McLean Medal (an annual award to the postgraduate with the best accepted or published journal).
October 2023: A warm welcome to our new MEng and MSc students! We hope you enjoy your time with the group.
September 2023: Theoni gave a talk at the Macrogroup Annual meeting.
November 2022: Congratulations to Joana for passing her viva. Well done Joana!
October 2022: A big welcome to Biri that joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome to the group!
Septmber 2022: Well done Bailin for passing your PhD viva! All the best for the future
August 2022: Congratulations to Theoni for her promotion to a full Professor, starting September 2022!
June 2022: Theoni to give an invited talk at EPF 2022 in Prague.
April 2022: Anna is leaving the group after 8 year! Good luck with your new appointment Anna!
April 2022: Theoni has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the European Polymer Journal. Congratulations!
March 2022: A big goodbye to Birsen. Good luck with your new job!
January 2022: Xu joined the group for a PhD. Welcome!
October 2021: New blood in the group. Welcome Jun, Jiahe, Yuchen and Yicheng. Good luck with your master projects.
October 2021: Welcome Shaobai to the group. Good luck with your PhD studies.
July 2021: A big welcome to Sofia that joined the group for her PhD studies. Sofia will be working in a collaborative project with Dr Jon Krell and Professor Alexandra Porter.
April 2021: Theoni gave an invited talk at the 2nd 2nd Virtual European Polymer Conference.
March 2021: Welcome back to the group Lezhi! Good luck with your PhD studies.
January 2021: Anna’s paper on novel ABC thermoresponsive triblocks that we have also patented is out! Click here for access. Congratulations Anna!
December 2021. Qian’s first author paper on thermoresponsive ethylene glycol based methacrylate has been accepted. Congratulations Qian! Click here for access.
October 2020: Welcome to Xu, Ruiqi and Chen, our new MSc Advanced Materials students that joined the group!
September 2020: Congratulations to Dean for passing his PhD viva! Well done soon to be Dr Carroll!
September 2020: Farewell to Caroline and Xia! A big welcome to the new MEng students.
February 2020: A big welcome to Miss Shuchen Wang that has started her PhD studies in our group.
November 2019: Theoni to give an invited talk at the Emerging Polymer Technologies Submit EPTS2019 in Australia.
October 2019: Anna is staying on with the group as a postdoctoral fellow and 3 MEng students have joined us. Amy, Lezhi and Feihong welcome!
July 2019: A big welcome to Dr Maria Mediero that is joying the group to work (in collaboration with Prof. Porter).
July 2019: Theoni is starting her term at the chair of Macrogroup and giving an invited talk (and career advice) to the Young Researches Meeting of Macrogroup at the University of Kent.
May 2019: Theoni to give an invited talk at the Frontiers in Polymer Science meeting in Budapest.
May 2019: Congratulations to Dr Anna Constantinou for wining the McLean Medal Award that is a prize is awarded annually to the postgraduate with the best accepted or published journal paper. Well done Anna!
April 2019: @HPRG. Macrogroup annual meeting: Theoni has been elected as the next chair of Macrogroup UK. She will be taking over in November.
January 2019: The group is getting bigger bigger! 7 more MSc students have joined us. Welcome Danai, Hongke, Jinyi, Kaiwen, Linli, Maria and Nikitas!
December 2018: Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk at the 2nd NSFC RSC conference at Warwick. Great conference!
October 2018: Big welcome to Joana that is joining us for a PhD and Saul & Kathryn that are joining us to undertake their MEng project. All the best!
September 2018: Welcome back to Qian Li (ex-MSc student of the group) that has now joined the group as PhD student. Good luck!
August 2018: Anna C's latest paper in Macromolecules on thermoresponsive tetrablock polymers. Click here to view
August 2018: Congratulations to Anna Constantinou for being awarded a prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. She will be staying in the group for another year as a postdoctoral fellow.
May 2018: Dean's work gets accepted in Polymer Chemistry and will also be featured as the inside cover. Congratulations Dean!
March 2018: Congratulations to Anna Constantinou for wining the first prize for talk of best scientific content at the Postgraduate Day of the Department.
January 2018: A big welcome to Bailin and Will that joined the group to undertake their PhDs.
October 2017: Baby Eirini arrives. Both mum Theoni and baby Eirini are doing well.
October 2017: A big welcome to Dr Anna Li Volsi that joined the group as postdoctoral fellow.
Congratulations to Justin for his new position to Korean. Best of luck!
July 2017: Dr Georgiou to give an invited talk at EPF 2017.
Congratulations to Justin for his new papers in Acta Biomaterial and Macromolecular Rapid Communications!
5/04/2017 The 3rd annual London Polymer Group meeting was organised by the TKG group. A big thank you to everyone involved and to everyone that attended the conference!
April 2017. A big welcome to Xinmo that is joining the group for a PhD. Welcome to GPG Xinmo!
Anna's new cover in Polymers! Click here to view. Congratulations Anna.
Feb 2017. Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk at KAUST.
A big welcome to Birsen for joining the group as a PhD student! Hoşgeldiniz Birsen!
Jan 2017: Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk at RSC Biomaterials at Belfast.
Congratulations to Dr Bingyuan Lu for passing his viva today! 07/12/2016
A big welcome to all the MSc and MRes students for this year! Good luck everyone. December 2016
Dr Georgiou has been awarded the 2016 Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal for contributions to polymer science which show outstanding promise for the future.
A big welcome to our new undergraduate students Ade, Neil and Tristan. Good luck guys. October 2016
September 2016: Good luck to all our graduates. It was great working with you. All the best!
August 2016: Justin's new paper in Chemistry of Materials on hybrids with different polymer structures is out! Well done Justin. Click here.
Congratulations to Anna for being awarded the 2016 James S Walker Award by the IOM3 for her MSc project on thermoresponsive polymers. Well done Anna!
July 2016: Miss Anna Constantinou presented her work at Warwick 2016 and Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk. The best Warwick conference ever with 600 participants.
June 2016. Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk at POC16 in Crete. What a nice event!
The LPP16 World Congress in Budapest is starting on the 29th of May 2016! Dr Georgiou to give an invited talk.
Pint of Science talk on the 25th of May with Dr Gentleman, Dr Dreiss and Dr Georgiou entitled "Grow your own body" Join us. https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/future-body
The Georgiou Polymer Group (GPC) has now a twitter account. Visit us at https://twitter.com/TheoniGPG
April 2016. Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk to the 2nd London Polymer Group meeting. Next year it is up to the GPG to organize the conference!
Congratulations to Bingyuan. His paper on "Microfluidically fabricated pH-responsive anionic amphiphilic microgels for drug release" made it to the 2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry B "hot" papers! The same article is also future on the Emerging Investigators 2016 Issue that Dr Georgiou was invited to contribute.
Anna's recent paper in Polymer Chemistry makes it as the "paper of the month". Click here. Congratulations Anna!
March 2016: Dr Georgiou gave a talk at Annual Conference and Expo on Biomaterials (Biomaterials 2016) which was held during March 14-16, 2016 in London.
Congratulations to Anna on her first paper entitled. "Thermoresponsive Gels based on ABC Triblock Copolymers: Effect of the Length of the PEG Side Group." Click here
Bingyuan's new article on "Microfluidically Fabricated pH-Responsive Amphiphilic Microgels for Drug Release" is out. Click here.
A big welcome to all the new MSc students of the group!
Congratulations Justin for successfully defending your thesis. Well done Dr Chung! ;-)
Miss Anna Constantinou won jointly the 2015 AWE William Penney Prize. This is an annual award to students on the MSc Advanced Materials course in the Department of Materials for the best project report ! Congratulations Anna! Well done!
November 2015: Theoni gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull.
October 2015: Miss Anna Constantinou and Mr Dean Carroll joined the GPG for a PhD. Good luck!
Congratulations to Leon, Anna, Hamizah and Rhanda for obtaining their MSc degrees. Well done all of you!
October 2015: Justin's paper hits the cover of Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Click here
Theoni has been appointed as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances starting November 2015.
September 2015: Justin's work also on Materials Views! Well done Justin! click here
September 2015: Our review paper on "Thermoresponsive Polymers for Biomedical Applications" is still one of the top 10 most cited paper in Polymers. Click on the title for access.
September 2015: Congratulations to Justin for his publication on GTP polymerisation of 3-(trimethoxylsilyl)propyl methacrylate, TMSPMA. Click here
August 2015: Good luck to Charles, Caroline and Louise!
August 2015: Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk at Nanotechnology Congress and Expo in Germany. Theoni was also one of the invited speakers at the Internation Symposium on Amphiphilic Polymers, Networks, Gels and Membranes that was organised by Professor Bela Ivan in Budapest (31st of August to 2nd of September).
June 2015: Mr Charles Signoret has joined GPG for a summer internship. Welcome Charles!
May 2015: Latest article on amphiphilic microgels in collaboration with Professor Pamme. Click here.
May 2015: Dr Georgiou to talk at the Department of Chemistry, at the University of Cyprus.
April 2015: Everything is set-up in the lab. Ready to go! Exciting!
April 2015: Invited seminar by Dr Georgiou at the Department of Materials at Queen Mary entitled "Engineering Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications".
March 2015: Don't miss out on the London Polymer Group 1st symposium! At University College of London.
March 2015: Dr Georgiou at Ghent University in Belgium for an invited talk at the Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry.
February 2015: Dr Georgiou gave an invited seminar at School of Biosciences, University of Kent, UK.
December 2014: The lab is finished! Time to start setting it up.
May 2014: Dr Georgiou gave an invited talk entitled "Manufacturing Milestones for Polymer Business" at Medteck, London, UK.
Feb 2014: Check out Theoni's latest invited review on Star Polymers for Gene delivery.
January 2014: Dr Georgiou joins the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.