Theona Șucu (@theonnaaa) profile picture

Senior Research Specialist @DowBenelux. Past maker of resins to be cheerful in the @GreenMatLab at The University of Manchester. 👩🏼‍🔬 Opinions my own.

Ghent, Belgium
Joined November 2016
Photo by Theona Șucu (@theonnaaa)Photo by Theona Șucu (@theonnaaa)
I passed my PhD viva today! 🎉Happy to share I’ll be moving to Ghent (with @matei_radu) to start @DowNewsroom job as a Senior Research Specialist. Woop! 🎉 – at Manchester, England
Resins to be cheerful: the big finale. Congratulations are in order for Dr Theona Șucu! 🎉 Thanks to @Filip_Du_Prez and Dr Chamil Abeykoon for examining.
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PhD life got me feeling like grocery shopping and doing dishes are hobbies
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It's out! Really enjoyed going through what the group's been up to in the past couple of years, but more importantly talking about what's next and how our perspective shifted to an interdisciplinary approach.
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Had such a good time splitting my time in Stockholm between @sipponenlab and Karin Odelius’ labs at @KTHuniversity! It’s now time to leave the 🇸🇪 snow behind and go back 🇬🇧.
Saying "hej då" to Theona Șucu who has been visiting us from @OfficialUoM where she is doing her PhD studies in the @GreenMatLab group of Prof. Michael Shaver. Thanks for your amazing drive and team spirit during these past few weeks! Looking forward to our future collaboration.
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Join us tomorrow at #GRIPS2022 for 'Alternative polymers & polymeric like materials.' Featuring our panel of expert speakers from @KTNUK, @OfficialUoM, Magical Mushroom company, @UniStrathclyde, @UPMGlobal and @foodgov. Register here: bit.ly/GRIPS2022 @UKCPNetwork
Got a 10 L reaction scale-up going today! Happy days! 😁
Big day in our lab today! And we don’t just mean #PancakeDay, but also #ScaleUpDay .👩🏼‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 @syrris @SMI_Hub @RoyceInstitute
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Just another day at the paw-fice with these two…
Got ourselves some visitors today! Sammie and Callie are always down to hear about plastics. Not when they’re napping though….
Looking for people to join our lovely team @GreenMatLab @SMI_Hub in our lovely new labs @RoyceInstitute!
Join us and @SMI_Hub for an exciting project merging our FLP and ROP expertise in our shiny new labs @RoyceInstitute! This is a fully funded opportunity for UK students. Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/su…
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New playground 👩🏼‍🔬🎉!
After more than a year of being split across home offices and four different buildings, we are all finally reunited in our shiny new labs in @RoyceInstitute @SMI_Hub. 🤩
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Waiting to cycle the antechamber like
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Great pun title incoming, they always make us smile! Inherently degradable cross-linked polyesters and polycarbonates: resins to be cheerful 😁, Theona Șucu et al., @GreenMatLab and @RoyceInstitute, pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Cool stuff by @GreenMatLab’s own FLP chemists! 🎉
Delighted our “Polymer-Supported Lewis Acids and Bases: Synthesis and applications” review is out in Progress in Polymer Science @ELSchemistry. Congrats are in order for @Utku_yolsal, @Tom_Horton23 and Meng! 🎉 Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Didn't everyone work on their puns and dad jokes during lockdown? Shout out to @R2BCBeerCafe who inspired the cheeky title.
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Best I’ve done during lockdown. Not saying everything I baked wasn’t great, but it wasn’t a reason to be cheerful like this one is.
More good news....Congrats to Theona! Her review "Inherently Degradable Cross-linked Polyesters and Polycarbonates: Resins to Be Cheerful" has been published in @PolymChem pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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(2/2) We need to actively engage in these conversations, push back against perspectives that are wrong like #hudlicky and ensure that in our own labs and workplaces and homes and lives #BlackLivesMatter.
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It is a day for sad departures as the exceptional Yuechao Xu is leaving the team after 2.5 years. #Yuexit
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Best bday weekend. AND the Scottish pub! Waiting for @JackDHowley to retweet so I can send you a screenshot @honestlyruss
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We move into our new labs in the @RoyceInstitute in 2020 & are expanding our #sustainability team! We have 3 PhD positions w start dates btw May and Sept 2020. (1) Polymeric frustrated Lewis pairs, (2) Sustainable polymer synthesis, (3) Polymer recycling. Share and get in touch!