Latest Events

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the UK launch of our new cost-effective AFM – the Dimension Nexus Benchtop system.

Register: https://info.bns.bruker.com/AFM-WS-Royce-Cambridge-May-2025.html

The Nexus is the latest addition to our AFM family – a cost effective, small footprint system designed to deliver wider access to top AFM performance, which includes:

• NanoScope 6 controller – highest speeds, lowest noise and versatility
• PeakForce Tapping technology – highest resolution, lowest imaging forces and widest sample type compatibility

The workshop will focus on the unique features of the system which has been designed to be easy to use, fully upgradeable – a welcome addition to multi-user labs where AFM expertise and applications vary and where physical space for instruments is at a premium.

In addition to talks from our technical experts we will also be demonstrating the system on a range of samples to provide a full overview of its capabilities.

The workshop will be valuable for researchers (from students, Post Docs to PI’s), experimental officers, lab managers and other scientists involved in material characterisation at the nanoscale.

Whilst this event is free to attend, space is restricted to allow participants valuable time with our specialists and the systems – so please register your interest as soon as possible.

The workshop is free of charge. Please click here to download the programme.

Agri-Food Robotics Online Conference, 15-16 May 2025

We would like to invite engineering researchers and students to take part in the Agri-Food Robotics Conference that will be happening online (Zoom), 15-16 May 2025.

A purpose of this conference is to figure out in what way Robotics and other modern technologies can help humankind to address global food challenges which are becoming fundamental to the planet’s existence.

By exploring related to Agri-Food industry research topics brought up in presentations and panel discussions, the conference will aim to address problems arising from climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices and highlight importance of developing modern technologies that may help to illuminate food shortages and soil degradation in future.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Henry Medeiros, University of Florida, USA

Matthew Howard, King’s College London, UK

Hiroki Mori, Co-founder of Tokuiten, Japan

Juan Bravo, Founder and CEO of Agrobot, Spain/USA

Josie Hughes EPFL, Switzerland

Letizia Mortara, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK

Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

Louise Sutherland, LINCAM/CERES, Cambridge Enterprise/University of Lincoln, UK

Elizabeth Sklar University of Lincoln, UK

Mario Caccamo, NIAB, UK

Stavros Vougioukas, UC Davis, California USA

Tyson Lee Swetnam, University of Arizona, USA

We would like to invite students of related to Robotics and AI fields to present their research at the conference break-out sessions.

If you wish to do so, please complete a relevant section in a conference registration form: https://forms.gle/iF7Jd2suJzxpGLCb7

More information and conference programme on the website: https://agriforwards.eng.cam.ac.uk/agri-food-robotics-conference-15-16-may-2025

Caroline Hargrove CBE is the CTO at Ceres, a world leading developer of low cost, next generation fuel cell and green hydrogen technology, where she led her team to a MacRobert Award in 2023 (MacRobert Award). Previously, Caroline was at McLaren for 20 years, first as a Simulation Development Engineer at McLaren Racing, and then as a founding member and CTO of McLaren Applied Technologies which was set up to exploit F1 technology in other markets including healthcare and telecommunications. She then acted as CTO for Babylon, a fast-growing Health Tech AI company aiming to bring affordable and available healthcare to everyone and Zedsen, a Med Tech startup where she still acts as Non-Executive Director. Caroline is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and received a CBE for services to Engineering in 2020.

https://www.kingselab.org/all-events/caroline-hargrove

5.30 PM – 6.30 PM: Fireside discussion in Keynes Lecture Theatre
6.30 PM – 7.00 PM: Drinks reception and networking in the Bar

TICKETS: tickets will be released closer to the event

Acknowledgments

With thanks to the Royal Academy of Engineering which supports E-Lab Resident Chris Tagnon – host of this fireside chat – to explore the makings of Engineering Leaders’ careers in ventures under the Engineering Leaders Scholarship scheme.

Speaker: Prof Harro van Asselt (Dept of Land Economy, University of Cambridge) 

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars Easter Term 2025 Tuesdays fortnightly at 12.30-1.30pm (in-person)

Please contact EPRG Administrator (eprgadm@jbs.cam.ac.uk) for further detail

Seminar organizer: Zeynep Clulow (z.clulow@jbs.cam.ac.uk)

Speakers:
Professor Dame Julia King
Dr Jess Wade, Imperial College London
Prof Melanie Britton, University of Birmingham
Dr Clara Barker, Oxford University
Prof John Singleton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr Yu Yu, Almath - Industry perspective

Roundtable Discussion: Dr. Connie Wang, Prof. Rachel Oliver OBE, Emeritus Prof. Valerie Gibson OBE and Prof. Lesley Cohen

The IOM3 Energy Materials Group sponsored also by other learned societies is organising a 1-day meeting to celebrate Emerging Female Leaders in Energy, “Women in Science Promoting Energy Research (WISPER)”.

There will be opportunities for early career individuals to present their work (6 talk slots and 24 poster slots are available). The day will close with a roundtable discussion at the meeting featuring high profile people: Dr. Connie Wang, Prof. Rachel Oliver OBE, Emeritus Prof. Valerie Gibson OBE and Prof. Lesley Cohen to discuss their career experiences.

If you would like to contribute a research poster, the deadline submission is 25 April 2025.