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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...

C-EENRG receives Newton Fund grant

Newton Fund gives grant to develop the BRIDGE Project - Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus Energy, water and food production and consumption in Brazil face important challenges. River flows and water reservoirs, including in dams, have record...

Cambridge academics honoured over the New Year

Members of the University have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to society in this years New Year Honours List, which include Energy@Cambridge members Professor Dame Ann Dowling and Professor David Mackay . Professor Dame Ann Dowling has been appointed to the Order of Merit by HM The Queen. The Order of...

Funding boost for infrastructure research at Cambridge

Two new funding initiatives at the University of Cambridge will support the UK’s infrastructure and cities. Research at the University of Cambridge to support the UK’s infrastructure and cities has received further backing in the form of two major funding initiatives. The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (...

Hong Kong University-University of Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform

A launch ceremony of the Hong Kong University-University of Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform was held on 10 Nov at the University of Hong Kong. This is a new initiative to consolidate collaborations between HKU and Energy@Cambridge researchers with a specific interest in energy research and energy...

Mirage maker

Connecting many researchers, chemists, physicists and engineers, the APEX project is an ambitious Anglo-Indian initiative to turn fundamental advances in solar materials into commercial reality. APEX involves research institutes in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kanpur and Pune in India, and Brunel (which leads the...

Graphene means business – 2D material moves from the lab to the UK factory floor

More than 40 companies, mostly from the UK, demonstrated some of the new products being developed from graphene and other two-dimensional materials at the Cambridge Graphene Technology Day last week. Graphene is a two-dimensional material made up of sheets of carbon atoms. With its combination of exceptional electrical...

Andy Brown presents 2015 Shell lecture at University of Cambridge

On 29 October Andy Brown, Director Upstream International, Shell, together with a delegation visited the University of Cambridge. Shell met with Shell funded PhD students who presented their research in five minutes. The session was chaired by Dr Dan Credgington, an Energy@Cambridge Energy Champion in the Department of...