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David Eyton BP Technology Outlook

On Tuesday 22 March David Eyton, Group Head of Technology at BP, gave a lecture to a group of PhD students and staff in the Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge. David Eyton gave an overview of the new BP Technology Outlook which shows how technology can play a major role in meeting energy challenges by widening energy resource...

The Alan Turing Institute – Energy Summit

On 21 March The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) Energy Summit took place in Murray Edwards College. The objective was to highlight the requirements, challenges, and opportunities of data science applications for the energy sector. The Energy Summit invited the users (or potential users) of the ATI from industry, government and...

Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation at European Commission visit

On 3 March Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation at European Commission gave a speech at the David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge on ‘Reinventing European research for the information age’. Carlos Moedas was joined by Jo Johnson MP, the UK Minister for Science and Universities...

Cambridge spin-out secures $3m to improve oil recovery efficiency

Silicon MicroGravity (SMG), a newly-formed University of Cambridge spin-out that has developed a novel sensor technology used by oil companies to enhance oil recovery, has received initial funding of $3 million from Imperial Innovations Group plc (AIM: IVO, 'Innovations') and Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm...

Winners of £40,000 low-carbon Shell Springboard award announced in Cambridge

Finian Parrick from Zero Carbon Future, Michael Murray of NVP Energy and Tony Dye of Epicam were each named regional winners at the Shell Springboard event in Cambridge on Tuesday 16 February, seeing off competition from 140 other businesses across the UK. They each scoop £40,000 funding and proceed to the Shell...

University of Cambridge, World Economic Forum 2016 IdeasLab Videos

Energy@Cambridge is pleased to have supported the University of Cambridge academic delegation at the World Economic Forum 2016 at Davos, Switzerland. The full videos are now available by clicking the links below: Professor Richard Friend (Department of Physics): Improving solar materials efficiency using quantum mechanics...

University of Cambridge at World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge led a delegation of academics to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016, to explore issues including carbon reduction technologies and how science and engineering can best address society's greatest challenges. The event was...

Searching for the missing piece of the fuel cell puzzle

In the academic environment, researchers are often so deeply focused on their particular areas that they aren’t aware of other fields where their work may have applications. It’s easy to understand. Here at the University of Cambridge, where there is increasing support for interdisciplinary research and engagement, it is...

Energy@Cambridge Networking Evening

On Wednesday 20 January Energy Champions Dr Dan Credgington and Dr Mark Ainslie from Energy@Cambridge organised a networking event for PhD students and early career researchers, supported by ESRC, around the topic of ‘Good technology does not require public investment’ held at Emmanuel College. The invited participants...

University of Cambridge at the World Economic Forum 2016

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge is to lead a delegation of academics to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016, to explore issues including carbon reduction technologies and how science and engineering can best address society's greatest challenges. The...