Michael Thielke has officially started his EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship ElectroBioLiS, a project that will develop freestanding spinnable sulfur-rich copolymers in combination with conductive carbon particles which can be directly used as a cathode in a lithium sulfur battery without the need to making an ink to deposit onto a current collector. This project will have a positive impact in the battery community and beyond. Sulfur co-polymers have shown to exhibit outstanding capabilities in domains such as mercury capture from aqueous solutions, application for which freestanding fibre mats with large surface area would be highly beneficial. Congratulations, Michael – this is an exciting project!