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Professor Xavier Moya elected as "Breakthrough Energy" Fellow

Professor Xavier Moya has been elected Fellow of Breakthrough Energy . As a part of the fourth international group of Fellows to be elected for "Accelerating Early-Stage Climate Innovation”. The latest Cohort brings together 25 extraordinary innovators from four countries, who are leading 14 groundbreaking projects aimed...

University Highlight - The cost of solar power: how low can we go?

Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.

University launches its MPhil in Energy Materials and PhD Sustainable Energy Materials

The University has launched its interdisciplinary MPhil Programme in Advanced Materials for the Energy Transition and PhD in Sustainable Energy Materials Innovations, with cohorts of both starting in October 2025. Global warming and energy challenges are putting strong constraints on our society and will lead to major...

James Simon's journey to enable sustainable energy storage

From growing up in South Wales to his current role enabling sustainable energy storage through his work as a PhD researcher on the Faraday Institution Science of Battery Safety ( SafeBatt ) project, James Simon's journey is a compelling tale. James's pathway, which was featured recently in the Faraday Institution's Faraday...

10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet

"Half the technologies we are going to need if we are to meet our net-zero goals are still in the lab," says Chris Gibbs, Investment Director at Cambridge Enterprise . "As part of the University's net-zero commitments, we have invested over £7 million in new companies that will get those ideas out of our labs and into the...

How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero

Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act? They represent as much as 8% of total world carbon emissions. But despite best efforts, global emissions from road haulage are increasing along with our increased consumption – because virtually everything that we purchase arrives on a truck, even...

What does it take to make a better battery?

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution. A better battery could make all the difference. So what’s holding up progress? The key to making electronics portable was the commercialisation of lithium-ion batteries...

Prof Sir Richard Friend FRS awarded 2024 Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal

Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS, Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory, has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture, the most prestigious award of the IOP which recognises groundbreaking physicists. The award honours Sir Richard for his pioneering and enduring work on the...

CLOSED: Winton 2025 Cambridge-Berkeley Exchange Programme

Applications for Exchange Awards are open as of 1 October 2024, and will close on Friday 13 December 2024. The Winton Cambridge-Berkeley Exchange Programme is a partnership between the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability , and the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI) at the University of California...

Flight path to net zero - Aviation Accelerator - Whittle Lab

Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge. An ambitious five-year plan created by the Aviation Impact Accelerator ( AIA ), a project led by the University of Cambridge and hosted by the...