Dr Duncan Sutherland, who has recently completed his PhD in the Institute for Energy Systems (IES), has been awarded a Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (WCSIM) Postgraduate Prize.
The investment, part of the €3bn Horizon 2020 SME Instrument programme, will be used to introduce Sofant's patented technology – which seeks to double the battery life of mobile devices – to market.
Combine hydrogen production with technology to capture and store the resulting carbon emissions and you could have the means of decarbonising the heat, power and transport needs of entire cities across the UK.
Jack Speakman, a 3rd year Chemical Engineering student, has been awarded an EPSRC bursary to conduct a summer undergraduate research project in Dr Sarkisov's group for 8 weeks.
We are delighted to report that the three Chancellor’s Fellows Daniel Friedrich, Timm Krüger and Filippo Menolascina have been selected for the 2016 Scottish Crucible programme. They are part of the 30 Cruciblists which come from 14 different Scottish institutions and disciplines ranging from arts to veterinary medicine. They were successful in the competitive application process which attracted over 100 applications from early to mid-career researchers.
Eli Kinney-Lang, a first year PhD student at the Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), has been awarded a 2016 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting Student Travel Award sponsored by the NIH.
At the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) 2016 conference one of our IDCORE Engineering Doctorate Students, Anthony Gray, won first prize in the ICOE Poster competition. ICOE 2016 is attended by wave and tidal industry leaders and associations as well as students and academi