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We have reopened applications for fully-funded studentships to join the Sensor CDT in October 2026!Studentship applicants must be eligible for home fees.Our fully-funded studentship will:cover your University fees (at home fees level),provide you with a maintenance grant at the UKRI level (£21,805 pa in academic year starting October 2026), which u…

Prof. Lorenzo Di Michele has taken over as director of the Sensor CDT following Prof. Clemens Kaminski's 12 years of leadership.Find out more with the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology's news story.

We enjoyed taking part in this year's Cambridge Festival at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Cambridge Festival is the largest annual public engagement festival hosted by the University of Cambridge.Two Sensor CDT MRes students, Sihe Hu and Kenton Kwok, demonstrated their self-designed and built photospectrometers to intere…

Our MRes students presented their posters at the inaugural Sensor CDT Mini Conference.For the last few weeks, our MRes students have been working on their first Mini-Research Project. This project aims to challenge students academically by introducing them to a new area of sensor research they have not studied before.For the Mini Conference, the st…

The Sensor CDT is part of the UK TechExpert pilot offering an enhanced stipend of £10,000 above the UKRI minimum stipend of £21,000 for students eligible for home fee status in the 2026/27 cohort. Join us and help grow the UK’s national capability in sensor technologies, part of the UK’s modern industrial strategy.The TechExpert pilot, part of the …

Sensors Day is the flagship event of the Sensor CDT. Students, academics and industry experts, all with an interest in sensor technologies, meet for an interesting line-up of invited speakers and student presentations. This year, we held Sensors Day 2025 at Homerton College, with the theme Sensors in Space. Our invited speakers discussed sensors f…

In October, two Sensor CDT students, Jake Stuchbury-Wass and Josephine Tumwesige, who had recently completed their internships, shared their experiences with other cohorts.Jake Stuchbury-Wass undertook a three-month internship at Nokia Bell Labs.Josephine Tumwesige completed a three-month internship with DEFRA under the UKRI policy.

We were pleased to welcome our new cohort of students! They are the first cohort of the next phase of the Sensor CDT 'Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World'. To help everyone to get to know each other, we took a sunny walk to Madingley Hall, where we had some introductions and activities.We wish all our incoming students a succ…

The rain held off for this year's Sensor CDT Summer Social. It's a lovely opportunity at the end of the vacation for all our students to catch-up and relax. Well done to Jiayi and Yuqi for being excellent grill-masters!

Find out what happened at this year's Cross-CDT Makerspace Hackathon, with the Applied Photonics CDT. Our brief was set by Ben Moore from RO2.

Dr Ryo Mizuta, Senior Teaching Associate at the NanoDTC, and independent scientific illustrator, gave a workshop to our students about how to improve their graphics for publications and presentations. He talked about the theories of design, and the students developed the 'stories' of their latest research.

At this month's Sensors CDT talk, we were pleased to welcome Dr. Duygu S. Sevilgen, a Postdoctoral Researcher specialising in the use of microelectrode sensors to study biomineralisation. The talk provided an insightful overview of electrochemical microsensors - small, custom-made tools enabling real-time, high-resolution measurements with a partic…

The Sensor CDT was at this year's Cambridge Festival, in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Many members of the public visited to learn more about how sensors might make their homes more efficient, comfortable and sustainable.Terry Fawden (2021 cohort) and Jiayi Hou (2023 cohort) demonstrated and explained the different senso…

For our Sensor CDT Christmas talk, we were delighted to host Prof. Utkan Demirci, Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. As well as a distinguished academic researcher, he is also a serial entrepreneur with expertise in translating microfluidics into licenced medical sensor devices. He discussed his work in cell s…

In October, we held our annual Sensors Day 2024 at Robinson College, with the theme of Sensing Our Environment. As the flagship event of the Sensor CDT, Sensors Day brings together students, academics, and industry experts interested in sensor technologies for an engaging programme of invited speakers and student presentations. Our students presen…