{"id":2501,"date":"2025-06-24T14:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:05:39","slug":"congratulations-dr-farcasanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/06\/24\/congratulations-dr-farcasanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Dr Farcasanu!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our PhD student Marc Farcasanu successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. The viva was conducted by Dr James Henstock from Northumbria University and Dr Priscila Melo from Newcastle University &#8211; thank you both for acting as Marc&#8217;s examiners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Well done Marc!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2504\" style=\"width:455px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-24-at-11.56.48_bfb55d81.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations on the successful defence of your thesis and the recent paper publication. It has been a pleasure working with you and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Please don&#8217;t be a stranger and keep in touch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our PhD student Marc Farcasanu successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. The viva was conducted by Dr James Henstock from Northumbria University and Dr Priscila Melo from Newcastle University &#8211; thank you both for acting as Marc&#8217;s examiners. Well done Marc! Congratulations on the successful defence of your thesis and the recent paper publication. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/06\/24\/congratulations-dr-farcasanu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations, Dr Farcasanu!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}