The 2014 Midlands "ISE Satellite Student Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry: The Midlands Electrochemistry Group (MEG) meeting was hosted on Monday, 1st April in the Department of Chemistry, University of Loughborough, sponsored by the RSc, ISE, Alvatek, Metrohm Autolab UK. The annual event is designed to bring together electrochemistry groups from universities across the midlands to share research, and provide a platform for PhD researchers to talk about their work with peers in the same field.

This year, there were close to 100 attendees, with delegations from University of Warwick, Nottingham University, University of Birmingham, Loughborough University, the University of Leicester and the University of Bath. 12 talks covering a wide variety of electrochemistry were given by postgraduate students, along with over 10 poster presentations.

WEIG student Barak Aaronson was awarded the prize for the best talk (High Resolution Electrochemical Imaging in Ionic Liquids: Surface Structure Effects on Triiodide Reduction at Platinum Electrodes) and Lingcong Meng recieved a prize for his poster (Laser Heated Diamond Electrodes). Barak will now go forward to deliver his talk at the UK national meeting Electrochem 2014, and the work on laser heated diamond electrodes will be presented at the Faraday Discussion 172 in Sheffield later this year.

The group went for an evening meal in Loughborough to celebrate (kindly organised by Rob Channon and Barak).