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ERC Advanced Grants: €445 million from the EU to 190 senior research leaders

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced today the award of its prestigious Advanced Grants to 190 senior researchers. The funding, worth in total €445 million, will enable them and their teams to pursue ground-breaking ideas. These are the first ERC Advanced Grants awarded under the 'excellent science' pillar of...

Future Cities Prize Fellowships - PhD student opportunities

The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment is pleased to announce the first annual Research Student competition on the topic of Future Cities for University of Cambridge students. Eight PhD students will receive £2000 each to develop a short (at most 10,000 words) research paper and summarise the findings...

Invention of blue LEDs receives Physics Nobel

The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Major new research grant awarded to Professor Sir Mark Welland in the field of nanotechnology

The multi-million pound 5 year project sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation follows the publication of the LRF’s Foresight review in nanotechnology: the next industrial revolution. The project is entitled Nanotechnology in subsea power infrastructure. Along with its collaborators; National University of Singapore...

New glass manufacturing technique enables design of hybrid glasses to revolutionise gas storage

A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of ‘designer glasses’ with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also facilitating industrial scale carbon capture and storage. An international team of researchers, writing today in the journal Nature Communications, report how they have managed to use...

Energy@Cambridge Co-ordinator appointed

We are delighted to announced that Dr Shafiq Ahmed has been appointed as Energy@Cambridge Initiative Research Co-ordinator and will take up his post on 1 July 2014. Shafiq has a PhD in Materials Science from Oxford and was previously Postgraduate Scholarships Manager for UUK and prior to that managed international...

Energy@Cambridge to support two CRASSH faculty research groups

Energy@Cambridge wishes to support up to two CRASSH faculty research groups exploring research led by the arts, humanities and social sciences concerning any aspect of energy-related research. The world’s energy challenge needs multifaceted responses from across the arts, the humanities and the life, social and physical...

Mar 4, 2014: Professor Lynn Gladden to give Bakerian Lecture

It’s magnetic resonance - but not as you know it Bakerian Lecture by Professor Lynn Gladden Professor Lynn Gladden leads research activities at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Her group develops methods that advance our understanding of processes that lie at the heart of many...

Energy for the Future Panel Discussion

Supported by Energy@Cambridge , CamAWiSE (Cambridge Association for Women in Science and Engineering) hosted the lively “Energy for the Future: plugging the gap in energy supply, a gap too big?” panel discussion at Trinity Hall College on 21 May 2015. Iman Hill (former Vice President of African Development and Production...

Call for Energy Champions

Energy@Cambridge Call for Energy Champions A number of Energy Champions will be selected to support different areas of the Energy@Cambridge strategic research initiative with the aim of building stronger research networks and engagement in the Energy@Cambridge initiative. Energy Champions, selected from early career...