From left to right: Boris Kelly-Gerreyn, Robert Cutler, Joanne Donahoe, Ed HillWe were delighted to welcome Robert Cutler from the Swire Educational Trust to NOCS on Friday 11th September 2009. Robert toured the centre with Professor Ed Hill (Director of NOCS), Joanne Donahoe (Associate Director, Development Office) and Dr Boris Kelly-Gerreyn (Project Manager of SNOMS). Part of the tour included a video conferencing session with our partners at the University of Xiamen (China). Robert was introduced to Professor Minhan Dai and the new Swire PhD student, Zongpei Jiang. The Swire Educational Trust are generously funding Zongpei's 4 year PhD studentship which will bring him over to NOCS for his first three years to work on SNOMS data. This marks the start of an excellent collaboration between Southampton and Xiamen.
During the tour, Robert was joined by Dr David Hydes (Chief scientist of SNOMS) and Professor John Shepherd FRS. After the tour, Robert met with the new vice-chancellor Professor Don Nutbeam.
The visit was deemed a great success by all involved.
