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Sir James Dyson opened some of the world’s most advanced engineering facilities at the University of Cambridge on the 9 May 2016, giving the institution’s students and academics the space and means to prototype, invent and collaborate on cutting-edge research. The development has been funded by a £8m donation from the James Dyson Foundation, the la…

Chris Abell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.Chris is the Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. A major focus of his highly interdisciplinary research has been to understand the mechanisms of key enzymes, and develop approaches to their inhibition. He was a pioneer in the development of fragment-based ap…

Professor Sir David Mackay passed away on 14 April 2016. Professor Mackay joined the University of Cambridge as a Natural Sciences (Physics) undergraduate in 1985 and then went on to complete his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in Computational Mathematics. In 1992, he returned to Cambridge as the Royal Society Smithson Research Fello…

A centrepiece for industrial partnership with the physical sciences and engineering, and home to Energy@Cambridge officially opened on the 7 April 2016. The building was opened by David Harding, whose generous sponsorship of the Physics of Sustainability programme was central to the funding of the Maxwell Centre project by HEFCE. In addition, the c…

Scientists have discovered that a highly promising group of materials known as hybrid lead halide perovskites can recycle light – a finding that they believe could lead to large gains in the efficiency of solar cells. Hybrid lead halide perovskites are a particular group of synthetic materials which have been the subject of intensive scientific res…

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 choices, transforming the …

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 various stakeholder group…

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, and the event was chaired by…

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 of the University of Camb…

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 Springboard 2016 national final, tak…

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 mechanicsProfessor Abir Al-Tabbaa (De…

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 supported by Energy@Cambrid…

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 often the case that an inve…

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 included PhD and early career …

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 University will host an IdeasLa…