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18 April 2024

Dr Giuliana Di Martino has been elected Fellow at the Institute of Physics (IoP). Congratulations Giuliana!

Michele Vendruscolo taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Apr 17 2024

Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.

Prof Dame Clare Grey, Xinyu Liu and Dr Alex Forse, taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Apr 15 2024

The energy density of supercapacitors – battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes – can be improved by increasing the ‘messiness’ of their internal structure.

The coming week (14-19th April) sees the annual gathering of geoscientists from around the world, at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, in Vienna. Members of the Department will be contributing, giving 16 presentations (either as posters or orals), convening one session during the week and appearing as co-authors on even more presentations. These contributions will showcase the cutting edge physical geography research that takes place across the Department, spanning the fields of cryospheric science, atmospheric modelling, geochronology, palaeoclimate and geohazards.

11 April 2024

Dr Mengfan Guo, Royal Society Newton International Fellow within the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, has been awarded a Goldsmiths' Early Career Fellowship in Materials Science and Metallurgy by Churchill College.  The Fellowship will commence on in April 2025 and will run for...

Daniel Leong taken by Michael Webb ©University of Cambridge

Apr 11 2024

Undergrad Daniel Leong completed a summer project in the Grey Lab and won a prize for his research poster. Daniel’s project was funded through the Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience (FUSE), which funds undergrad placements in battery research.

Klavs Jermakovs & Hussein Murtada taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge.

Apr 11 2024

Klavs Jermakovs and Hussein Murtada are studying Parkinson's disease, how it behaves, and potential new drug candidates.

Image courtesy the Gairdner Foundation

Apr 11 2024

Professors Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian have been named as two of the five recipients of the 2024 Canada Gairdner International Award.

ReactWise founders Daniel Wigh (left) and Alexander Pomberger at the company launch

Apr 3 2024

Two PhD students from our department have launched a start-up which will democratise access to advanced optimisation strategies with a new, no-code software platform.

Stephen Lezak has published a guest essay in the New York Times today responding to the recent rejection of the proposed Anthropocene epoch by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. His article also quotes SPRI and Geography Emeritus Professor Phil Gibbard.

Professor Matyjaszewski, courtesy Carnegie Mellon and National Academy of Science

Mar 21 2024

Professor Kris Matyjaszewski of Carnegie Mellon University will deliver our prestigious Melville Lectures on 14 and 16 May in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

20 March 2024

The 2024 Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum will be held on Tuesday 18th June 2024. The afternoon programme includes talks, the award of the Armourers & Brasiers’ Materials Science Venture Prize, and displays of current research.  It will also include the 25th Kelly Lecture given by...

Professor Erwin Reisner, courtesy Cambridge Festival

Mar 18 2024

Professor Erwin Reisner has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies.

The Santander winners, courtesy Lambda Energy

Mar 14 2024

Lambda Agri, a company embedded in Professor Dominic Wright’s research group, has received another prestigious award for its light-management technology that is used to increase crop yields.

14 March 2024

Professor Manish Chhowalla FREng, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, has been announced as one of four innovative engineering academics to have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies....

Mar 19 2024

Kelly Chibale (Queens’ 1989), who completed his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry with Stuart Warren, already has a string of honours and awards to his name and he’s just received two more.

Professor Erwin Reisner, courtesy Cambridge Festival

Mar 14 2024

Professor Erwin Reisner will show how his group is developing ways to turn carbon dioxide, biomass and plastic waste into precious resources to underpin a solar-powered economy at his Open Day lectures in the Wolfson Theatre on Saturday 16 March.

Klenerman (left) and Balasubramanian in front of the pub where it all happened.

Mar 15 2024

Professors Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian have been awarded the 2024 Novo Nordisk prize for their co-invention of Next Generation DNA Sequencing, which has transformed medicine and science.

Courtesy Cambridge Science Festival

Mar 12 2024

The next Alex Hopkins memorial lecture will be held Friday 22 March from 5pm - 6:15pm in the BMS lecture theatre.

Single molecular light field microscope, courtesy Michael Webb © Michael Webb University of Cambridge

Mar 13 2024

Three-dimensional single-molecule localisation microscopy made faster than ever using microlenses to ‘see around corners.’ Researchers have used this to observe living white blood cells at the nanoscale.