This year we were on the hunt for creative images, graphs and illustrations based on scientific research our students were undertaking. We wanted to encourage our students to show that science can be beautiful and interesting, and is not always about sad-looking data points and graphs.
Here are out 3 winners of the 2022 Sensor CDT art science competition:
Sarah Barron:
Sarah is a Sensors CDT PhD student at the Bioelectronic System Technology (BEST) Group under the supervision of Prof. Roisin Owens at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Sarah's research is focused on better understanding the pathology and toxicology of barrier systems, including the Blood-Brain-Barrier, Intestinal-Epithelial-Barrier and the Pulmonary-Epithelial-barrier. She is currently working on developing flexible electronic devices to monitor complex 3D cellular models of such barrier systems, in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
Francesca van Tartwijk:
Francesca is Sensors CDT PhD research in the Laser Analytics Group under the supervision of Prof. Clemens Kaminski in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Her research focuses on the effect of Fused in sarcoma ('FUS’) phase transition on local protein synthesis in axon termini and the implication for neurodegeneration. For this, she uses Xenopus laevis as a model organism. The two submitted images were published here.
Matthew Ellis:
Matthew is a Sensors CDT PhD student at the NanoPhotonics Centre under the supervision of Prof. Tijmen Euser at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
