Speaker
Dr
Mkwizu Tumaini
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Description
START - Synchrotron Techniques for African Science and Technology, is Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK) funded research consortium under its Global Change Research Fund (GCRF) programme, primarily to facilitate access and collaboration around the use of Synchrotron Techniques. Towards this end, the consortium is organised two distinct thematic lines, that address their respective needs and modalities of accessing synchrotron based techniques. The first theme focussing on Energy materials whilst the second focusses on Structural biology
Overall the consortium formally comprises 17 institutions from 5 countries.
Background information around the formation of START will be presented as well as brief summaries of some of the current and proposed research by the members of the consortium.
Primary author
Dr
Mkwizu Tumaini
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Co-authors
Dr
Chris Nicklin
(Diamond Light Source)
Prof.
David Billing
(University of the Witwatersrand)
