We are very proud that our 2023 cohort will start their three-year PhDs today. They will continue to be part of the Sensor CDT while moving to their new departments. Below is a list of their projects and departments
| Student | Main department | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Abbie Davidson | Physics | Quantum sensing at the nanoscale for emerging radiotherapy technologies |
| Francesco Cenciarelli | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Advancing the investigation of cortical brain organoids to unravel the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases |
| Francisco Quero Lombardero | Engineering | Integration of Thin-Film-Transistor Digital Microfluidics and Cell-Free Systems for the Study of Artificial Cell Compartmentalization via RNA Condensates |
| Gratsiela Kostova | Engineering | Development of integrated UV-Vis-NIR reflectance sensors for operando analysis of Li-Ion batteries |
| Jack Davies | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Mapping mass transfer, chemical composition and temperature within working catalytic systems |
| Jiayi (Maxwell) Hou | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Improving formolase catalytic activity for flow bioreactors to achieve carbon captor and utilisation using protein engineering |
| Juliana Ferraro | Engineering | In-vitro sensing of aerosol delivery and efficacy of chemotherapy drugs targeting lung disease |
| Leon Brindley | Physics | Controlling electron-ion coupling in organic electrochemical transistor sensors |
| Livia Occhipinti | Chemistry | Multispecific antibodies stoichiometry at the single-molecule level |
| Max Walk | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Enhancing the stability of mRNA therapeutics through structural optimisation |
| Omar Tanner | Clinical Neurosciences | Developing computational methods to relate optical measures of body position and movement to measures using wearable inertial motion sensor units (IMUS) to translate body movement analysis to real world settings |
| Oriol Colomer I Ferrer | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Nanozymes for natural enzyme replacement and cofactor recycling in dha production |
| Raluca Alexii | Physics | Sensing the protein interactome of a synthetic mRNA using solid-state nanopores to optimise mRNA therapeutics |
| Stephen Devlin | Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | Evolutionary optimisation of advanced biomimetic systems for healthcare applications |