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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 departmentsStudentMain departmentTopicAbbie DavidsonPhysicsQuantum sensing at the nanoscale for emerging radiotherapy technologies Francesco Cenci…

At this month's Sensors Café, we welcomed Dr. Nathalie Muller, Commercialisation and Academic Relations Manager from Cambridge Enterprise to give our students a talk about IP and commercialisation within Cambridge University. She introduced Cambridge Enterprise and its areas of work and answered students' questions about the support available at di…

To prepare for the Team Challenge, Professor Ian McCrone from the Cambridge University Vet School gave our students an introduction to the Vet School and took them on a trip to the University Dairy Farm. As the students will be testing their devices on cattle, they learned how existing collars help track the cows and gained insights into farming re…

For this month's Sensor CDT Industry Talk, we welcomed Dr. Will Gompertz, a long-term supporter of the CDT and Innovation Lead for Low-Cost Nuclear at Innovate UK. In his talk, he introduced himself and the strategy of UKRI's Innovate UK, providing valuable insights into the role of sensors within society and the ecosystems which support their deve…

We launched this year's Team Challenge with a kick-off event. The topic for this year's challenge is 'Automated Vegetation Monitoring Using Animal-Mounted Sensors.' We are fortunate to have mentors from Rothamsted Research, Harry Rogers from AgriFoRwArdS CDT, and Dr. Xiaohan Li and Dr. Sebastian Pattison from the Department of Engineering, who will…

To celebrate the end of the MRes students' exams, we held a casual event with special guests. Tiesheng Wang, a 2014 Sensor CDT graduate and now Associate Professor at Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in China, returned to the CDT. He brought around 25 students, postdocs, and staff from DUT to tour the UK and meet with our students. As well as…

This month, we had an informative talk by Dr. Anita Marguerie de Rotrou from the Office for Translational Research (OTR) at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. She introduced the OTR and the areas in which it works, such as translating research for medical devices, project management, and industry partnerships. She also answer…

This month's Sensors Café was led by Sensor CDT co-director Tijmen Euser. He conducted an engaging and educational workshop on the steps following the completion of a paper, including journal submission, the review process, responding to reviewers, and writing referee reports.

This month, we resumed our series of Industry Lectures with a talk by John Saffell, a long-term supporter of the Sensor CDT and Director of Nosmotech. He guided our students through the maze of industry and academic options in sensors and answered their questions about their future career directions.

Congratulations to Sarah Barron (2018 cohort) and Sophie Oldroyd (2020 cohort), who have been awarded the 2024 Robin Paul Research Paper Prize. Their paper 'A Conformable Organic Electronic Device for Monitoring Epothelial Integrity at the Air Liquid Interface' won the award for the best research paper published by a PhD student as first author at …

The MRes students gave their mini-research project presentations this week. Their presentations were on an array of different disciplines, showcasing the variety of research that happens within the Sensor CDT. Each student demonstrated remarkable dedication, creativity, and expertise in their respective fields.

In this month's Sensors Cafe, we enjoyed presentations by 2020 cohort PhD students Liam Self and Sophie Oldroyd. Liam presented his research on indoor positioning, which explored the augmentation of manual data collection with GAN-generated radio maps and the utilization of graph-based ML models for accurate localization. Sophie's talk focused on…

We are pleased to announce that the Sensor CDT's funding has been renewed by UKRI.  Our new theme is Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World.This funding will support five cohorts of students, starting in October 2025. Further information about admissions will be published in Summer 2024.More information about the renewal can be …

We were delighted to host Prof. Karen Ottewell for an academic writing workshop especially curated for our MRes students. During this session, Prof. Ottewell covered three key areas of written texts our students are currently engaged with:Presentation skills for the Mini Research Project.Strategies for the PhD Proposal's mini viva.Techniques for cr…

This month, a collaborative workshop on Intellectual Property (IP) was organised with students from the MPhil in BioScience Enterprise (MBE) programme. Dr. James Pitchford and Dr. Craig Titmus, partners at Mathys&Squire, provided a comprehensive presentation on IP topics. After the presentation, the students were grouped into four teams to delibera…