{"id":110,"date":"2020-07-16T13:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/?p=110"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:58:57","slug":"phd-examinations-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/2020\/07\/16\/phd-examinations-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD examinations during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/files\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-14.08.39.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of Luigi Montibeller's PhD viva examination\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Clockwise from bottom-left: Luigi Montibeller defends his PhD thesis from his home in Trento, Italy; Professor Una Fitzgerald (External Examiner) connecting from Galway; Professor Paolo Muraro in London; Professor Amin Hajitou<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A huge congratulations to PhD students in our Department who have completed their PhD vivas remotely during lockdown.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Three viva examinations have been conducted remotely within Brain Sciences since 23 March 2020, the beginning of lockdown in the UK. Well done to <strong>Joel Raffel, Christopher Timmerman Slater and Luigi Montibeller<\/strong> on defending their research despite these challenging circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Luigi&#8217;s viva took place on 15 June (pictured), with a rewarding scientific discussion taking place over four and a half hours. Professor Una Fitzgerald dialled in from Ireland as External Examiner and Professor Paolo Muraro took on the role of Internal Examiner. Professor Amin Hajitou acted as Luigi&#8217;s PhD supervisor following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/193071\/obituary-professor-jackie-belleroche-phd-ds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passing of Professor Jackie de Belleroche in July 2019,<\/a> whose incredible contributions to research and education at Imperial are remembered and celebrated here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge congratulations to PhD students in our Department who have completed their PhD vivas remotely during lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275632,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-updates","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}