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Dr Anna Regoutz

@bluebananna.bsky.social
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Solid state chemist • spectroscopist • working on devices • Assoc Prof in Experimental Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford • she/her

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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A year ago I walked up to the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory on my first day back in Oxford after a bit more than a decade. Today, I’m between thinking “gosh how’s it been a year already” and “has it really only been a year”. Excited to see what year #2 will bring 🤩
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
After much umming & aahing, I’ve finally decided to update our group name/logo. I’m not a natural overthinker, but this definitely proved fertile ground for an extensive crisis of confidence 🙈 In any case, here’s the new one. And credit to @inkscape.org for not breaking at my limited skills 😅
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
As peak tourist season approaches in Oxford, I am particularly enjoying early mornings in my College office with a view of the calm and empty front quad ☺️ I treasure my early mornings at work as they provide space to think and write amongst the craziness of everyday life as an academic 🌟 #OxfordLife
Photograph of the front quad of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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Christina Birkel @christinabirkel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New paper alert! Who knew V incorporates into the A-site of a MAX phase? We were surprised! And then we tried all 3d metals... check out how it influences the magnetism of Nb2SnC. Great collaboration with @bluebananna.bsky.social and others! #MAXPhases #chemsky #matsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our next speaker is Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social from the University of Oxford presenting her work on complex interfaces using HAXPES.
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lovely morning train journey to Teddington to visit the National Physical Laboratory for the @uksaf.bsky.social meeting today ☀️ Looking forward to a great program and my invited talk on an exciting interface explored using #HAXPES 💪
Photograph of the Thames near Windsor from a train bridge
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Christmas came early 🤩 I am incredibly fortunate to step into the (giant) footsteps of St Edmund Hall’s inorganic chemists, including Mike Mingos, who has kindly gifted me his extensive collection of crystal structure models. A dream for any solid state chemist and an incredibly useful resource 💛🧡❤️
Photo of a shelf covered in crystal structure models (and eucalyptus)
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A sunny good morning from the Radcliffe Camera and its fabulous rainbow makeup 🌈 #MorningPerson #MagicalBubble
Photograph of the Radcliffe Camera with rainbow flags visible in its top windows
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Christina Birkel @christinabirkel.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New paper alert! Interested in #mxenes and #electrocatalysis? Check out our latest work on incorporating Mo into V-MXenes (and V- #MAXPhases) to make them more efficient catalysts for water splitting. Congratulations, Rose! Great collab with @bluebananna.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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(V1–yMoy)2CTx MXene Nanosheets as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution
MAX phases are a large and growing family of transition metal-based ternary carbides and (carbo)nitrides, that have also attracted significant attention as precursors for a class of two-dimensional ma...
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
And it’s a wrap 🎁 Final work day done and at least part of the to do list complete. Fantastic Fellows Christmas dinner in College to round off my first term back at Oxford and now on my final commute home for 2024 🚂 See you in the New Year, Oxford! 🍾🥂 #OxfordLife #ReadyForChristmas
Photo of the Chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Final work day pre-Christmas and about to head out for our group Christmas lunch 🎄 Going stereotypically Oxford by having it at the KA. We always used to go for group drinks there during my DPhil so nice to continue this tradition 🙌 The photo is from an early morning walk to work the other day 🧡
Photo of the Kings Arms pub in Oxford early in the morning
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The countdown to Christmas is truly on now 🎄 A couple more days filled with admission meetings, ALL those thing I promised myself to get done before the holidays, and Christmas lunches and dinners 🙌 #BusyFinale #AlmostThere #OxfordLife
Advent calendar in the windows of Nuffield College, Oxford
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This week has been a week of (coffee fuelled) early mornings ☕️ With undergraduate admissions in full swing I needed those extra hours in the morning to keep up with everything else 😅 Oxford feels extra special pre sunrise with hardly any people around 🌙 #OxfordLife #MagicalSpires
Photo of the Sheldonian theatre lit upClarendon building lot up and with a Christmas tree outsidePhoto of the trees in St John‘s from Parks Road
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Gudrun Lotze @gudrunlotze.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Research associate position at Uni Hamburg in the area of #synchrotron science. A rare permanent position! #ichbinhanna Deadline: 20.12.2024 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A fantastic week at #F24MRS is coming to an end. Lots of great science and the opportunity to catch up with old friends and new 💙 Big shout out to the @roysocchem.bsky.social grant for carers who made it possible for me to be here with my 2yo in tow 💪 #TravellingScientist #AcademicMama
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
How about switching from Li and Na-based battery materials to fluorine ones? 💡 @brentmelot.bsky.social providing a convincing case to get creative with F ions at #F24MRS 💪 🔋
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Start of another day of #F24MRS and thick snow on the 30th+ floor of my hotel ❄️ Energy levels are somewhat running low at this point of the week and it’s tempting to crawl back into bed and watch the snow fall, but plenty of great science still to come 💪 #KeepGoing #TravellingScientist
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Really fantastic work by @virtualatoms.bsky.social on searching (theoretically) for crystalline anisotropic dielectrics 🙌 Check out atomate2 if you wanna have a go yourself: materialsproject.github.io/atomate2/
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Want to work on oxides for power electronics? We have a 3.5 year DPhil (PhD) project on gallium oxide available in our group starting Oct 25 🙌 Do get in touch if you have any questions 💡 chem.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/re...
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Joel Varley from LLNL always promises high quality oxide theory and once more he didn’t disappoint 🤩 A true tour-de-force of gallium oxide theory and the complexity not only of oxygen defects but also gallium vacancies 🙌 #UWBG #OxidesAreFun #ItsComplicated
Photo of Joel presenting his work
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Inspiring talk by @lonepair.bsky.social at #F24MRS including fascinating assessments of the traditional roles of modelling and experiment compared to the role of the data-driven approach „Captain“ 🧑‍✈️
Photo of Aron presenting his talk
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good morning Boston ☀️ Excited for #F24MRS. A fully packed program with one too many interesting talks at the same time. Tough decisions will have to be made 😅 #TravellingScientist
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Christmas comes early in Oxford #OxMas I’ve watched several Christmas trees arrive today and was fascinated by the engineering operation involved in positioning the tree on top of the medieval well in the front quad. A nice distraction during tutorial work today 🎄 #OfficeView #OxfordLife
Photo of the front quad of St Edmund Hall with Christmas tree and lights
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Spending today at the IoP for a workshop on the topic of physics & AI. Curious to hear from a broad range of colleagues and stakeholders on what the drivers, opportunities and challenges are around the use and development of AI 💫
Photograph of the title page for the meeting
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
We currently have a project on gallium oxide thin films available through the competitive DTP route at UCL (Project ID: 2228cd1383) 🙌Deadline 8th January 2024 📢 Get in touch if you're interested! More info on the scheme here: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...
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Apply for a UCL EPSRC DTP studentship
The UCL EPSRC DTP 2024/25 recruitment is now open.
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Are you a #HAXPES user at beamline P22 at DESY? 💫The beamline team is looking for responses to a survey on their current review and scheduling processes ✍️ If you haven't received a link yet, but would like to add your thoughts, DM me 🙌
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
On the outskirts of Oxford this morning to take part in an exciting project 🤩 Always a pleasure (and challenge) to work in a professional recording environment 😅 The result will be revealed in the not too distant future 🤓
Photo of the Oxford Digital Media logo
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Short but productive trip to beamline P22 at DESY for a test experiment on the Polaris ambient pressure #HAXPES end station 🤩 Great team and many useful discussions 💪 Now hoping that my plane will make it through #StormBabet back to London 😅 #TravellingScientist
Top down view onto the end stations at P22The team working on the P22 Polaris end stationPhotograph of the sample holder inside the analysis chamber
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Off to Trieste for a couple of days of meetings at Elettra 💫 Looking forward to discussing all things photoelectron spectroscopy and to catch up with collaborators who have become close friends over the years (and possibly to some Italian treats) 🤩🍝 #TravellingScientist
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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Thursday the 16th of November, London, UK, Thomas Young Centre symposium on Data Driven Materials Design: thomasyoungcentre.org/event/tyc-mi... Free to attend but registration required. #CompChem #ChemSky
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TYC Mini-Symposium: Data Driven Materials Design - THOMAS YOUNG CENTRE
Tian Xie: Microsoft Corporation Yuqi Song: University of Maine (Virtual) Daniel Davies: Benevolent AI Sterling Barid: The Acceleration Consortium (Virtual) Venue: Mary Ward House, Tavistock Pl, Londo...
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#RealTimeChem @realtimechem.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
We’re here! #RealTimeChem has arrived on Bluesky. Share some #chemistry using #RealTimeChem and connect with other chemists. 😃👩🏼‍🔬🧑🏿‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬🥼🧪⚗️
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Congratulations Dr Curran 🥳 Very proud supervisor - well done on defending your PhD today 💪 Big thanks to @zwijcompchem.bsky.social and Louis Piper for examining 🙌 Curran has had a massive positive impact on the group and our collabs and I can’t quite believe he‘s done done 😂
Photograph of Curran, Aysha, Prajna, Yujiang (on iPad) and Anna
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
At the University of Warwick today for Photoemission 101 🤩 A whole day full of photoelectron spectroscopy talks by technique experts, industry users and people like myself 💪 Kicking it off is Dave Morgen from Cardiff/Harwell XPS 🙌
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Birthday present to myself: first visit to SLS and the ADRESS beamline for my first soft X-ray ARPES experiment 🤩 A lot of firsts for one weekend 😅 Excited to hunt for band bending and a 2DEG in an oxide heterostructure 💪 #TravellingScientist
Photograph of the beamline label saying ADRESS X03MA
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