 I applied for a theme at Lynx to be able to build together a series of activities and networks that would help both my own research but also research in areas that I'm interested in and that I have a number of colleagues who who are also interested in so that the main area of our theme was new materials for energy and sustainability. And that pulled together people working on magnetic materials on catalysts on various different types of material, and we thought that we could build something together that that could benefit from the way that Lynx is structured so that we would be able to arrange activities that could help people in their specific areas, but also look for commonalities between the different areas that we were working that we were working working on. So I was able I was lucky enough to be able to build together a collaboration of very motivated people who were interested in trying to work together on this and so we decided to submit an application and we were successful. Our theme has been organized with a core group of people who meet who meet to discuss the the overall, the overall thrust of the theme, which, as I mentioned before has the title of new materials and so we have the activity split into different working groups. Those working groups cover areas like functional magnetic materials catalysis charge transfer materials nanostructured materials. And the working groups aware most of the most of the magic actually happens. And each, each working group has taken taken on different activities and different ways of working to try to get to that to get to their end goals that we've shared some of the processes that we developed with the individual working groups. But each working group has had a relatively free hand to sort out to sort out what they want so for example one working group has focused a lot on education, training up training up researchers with the necessary skills and techniques. Another working group spent quite a lot of effort on trying to figure out what's needed to improve certain types of scientific software for analyzing data and that kind of thing. The work has been organized in a way that's that each, each participant can can contribute what they what they what they want to and what they can and then we all build it together into one whole. So the benefits of having a theme at links are many. It's a great opportunity to be able to meet people from all around the world at the various different events that happen either remotely or in person. And we're also able to help support certain activities. So one of the activities that we have been running is a school on x-ray absorption spectroscopy and how to analyze data from that that has been of interest to multiple, multiple people in the theme multiple working groups. And this school has run with a strong practical components, and it's run for it's it's been run during the lifetime of the theme and now that the theme is coming to an end we're hoping that we will be able to establish this as a more permanent event on the calendar, as it's been possible to see all of the benefits that arise from that. So the theme is coming to an end, and it will finish at the end of this year 2023. And looking back, it's very nice to be able to see all of the different things that have been accomplished in the different themes and how in the working groups and how all of the working groups have moved forward and formed their own identities, and now have communities or hubs surrounding them that will be able to continue looking into those areas so I think it's been very nice to bring bring a large number of researchers here to the ground, and then they've been able to give presentations and talks, both inland and in the kind of surrounding areas in Sweden, and also in Denmark. And that's been really great to get to meet a lot of these people and have a lot of conversations that have sparked a lot of new ideas. And so I think that working on the theme has been a real pleasure and a real privilege trying to make sure that we can make it happen. The push forward activities, it's been really helpful to have engagement with post post doctoral scholars, and also students who have been interested in putting their putting some of their energies into into developing activities and being able to promote those activities. On the whole, I think that we have been able to build new relationships between people and that's been the most positive outcome from the whole experience. For the application process, I think the key thing is to make sure that one can see a clear benefit that arises for the, for the working groups that will that will that will make up the theme and trying to make sure that those working groups can focus on their focus on their own activities, but are also able to to to work together and see where there are where there are parts in common or where their work can help build a can help can help another working group. And so trying to make sure that there is a framework for the theme when it is operating that will allow that that kind of thing to happen. And mainly, the main advice, I suppose, is to make sure that you have a good team of people who are who are motivated to make sure that plenty of events happen.