Working Environment

Offices

The AR group occupies two reading rooms (0.27 and 1.43) at the School of Chemistry. The space in the 1.43 office is shared with computationals with different expertise. The 0.27 office is also shared with experimentalists from L. Morrill's group.

All desck are equiped with a all-in-one PC, a keyboard and a mouse. The group also owns several external drivers to perform backup regularly.

Working hours

A full-time position requires full-time dedication which translates in eight working hours daily except weekends. The School daily core-hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m to provide flexibility to these members with other obligations. During the core-hours range, each group member should be within the premises unless noticed in advance.

Computer Operative System

The standard operative system build on the PCs is Windows although it is strongly recomended to use a UNIX base machine. Commonly, we use virtual machines build on Windows, which facilitate the a UNIX environment to access HPC, programming and other analytical tools. On the other hand, the host operative system is commonly used and integrated within the School network.

To share folders between Windows (host) and Ubuntu using Virtual Box, create a folder on your Windows and set it as shared in Virtual Box. Once in Ubuntu, edit your rc.local and add:

sudo mount -t vboxsf FolderName /media/sf_FolderName

You will need to add the username as vbox user using the command line:

sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $USER

sudo adduser $USER vboxsf

Later on you can create a symbolic link from the sf_Folder to your $HOME:

ln -s /media/sf_FolderName any_name_for_the_Linux_Folder