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This month's Sensors Café was different as we had a panel discussion about choosing a PhD project with representatives from various Sensor CDT cohorts. These PhD students shared their insights and experiences regarding choosing a project to our MRes cohort. Additionally, we were joined by Dr. Amanda Brunton from the University's Postgraduate Resear…

On February 14th, we hosted Natalie Cotterell, Development Manager from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), who delivered a talk focussed about navigating the publishing process and the other initiatives at the RSC. Natalie introduced the RSC and shared valuable insights and tips on how to publish in RSC journals, offering practical guidance to …

Yesterday, the 2022 cohort of Sensor CDT students presented their Team Challenge project 'Lifetime' at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The hour-long presentation demonstrated a solution to the extremely wasteful practices that surround rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs when they reach the end of their service lives in…

Why did you apply to the Sensor CDT? What is it like to be part of the Sensor CDT community? Hear from our current students: Tomas, Josephine, Jan and Francesca. Tomas Paulik (2022 cohort)"Unlike most students in my CDT cohort, I didn’t join the programme directly after my bachelor’s degree. I have returned to academia after a decade in the industr…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Lisa Hall, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge and Sensor CDT academic, won the prestigious MRC Millenium Medal. She was recognised for her pioneering work in biosensor design, which led to the spinout company AgaMatrix, which has delivered more than 8 million devices that…

The Sensor CDT has co-created the "Sensors, Sensing and Society initiative", which is overseen by Pete Loftus (Sensors Innovation Leadership Council – SILC), Elena Gaura (Coventry University) and Firat Güder (Imperial College London).The initiative has adopted an inclusive, transdisciplinary, co-creative and whole society approach to our activities…

We want to congratulate Jan Heck, which won with Stefany Kissovsky the "Best talk" prize at Sensors Day 2022.His brilliant presentation was titled "Optofluidic Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres as Label-Free Biophysical Sensors". Jan started in 2018 at the Sensor CDT. He is currently a final year PhD student in the NanoPhotonics Centre Group with…

Once a year the Sensor CDT awards the Sensor Champion title to one of our students. This year it is Josephine Tumwesige that won the award for her contributions to the team challenge and excellent coursework. Congratulations! Josephine has just started her first year of her PhD with Prof. Ronan Daly and Prof. Lisa Hall at IfM in Cambridge. We wishe…

The Sensor CDT organized together with the Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology at DAMPT, the MRC Wellcome Trust Stemm Cell Institute, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, the workshop "Collaboration Creation Days: Where cell biology, physics and sensors meet." PhD students, PostDocs and early career scientists had 3.5 days to…

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 compe…

CyanoVision: Developing a low-cost, open-source early-warning system for cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria are algae-like bacteria which inhabit freshwater, coastal and marine waters all over the world. These bacteria can quickly reproduce and form ‘blooms’ which are commonly referred to blue-green algae in water. Favourable reproduction conditions are h…

What a fantastic and interesting day!170 participants joined this year's hybrid Sensors Day on the 12th of October in the Moller Institute in Cambridge to hear about "Sensors in an uncertain world". The 2022 Sensors Day was quite different: in the first session we had economists, research council and social scientists talking about their perspectiv…

On the 6th of June 2022, the Sensors CDT held a responsible research practice workshop for the first time for their current MRes cohort. The aim of the workshop was to raise awarneness about the carbon footprint of research and to provide students early on with useful advice on how to reduce the environmental impact of their scientific endeavours b…

Our Sensors CDT student Sarah Barron (cohort 2018) won the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award. Read more about her outreach activities in her blogpost:"Hi! My name’s Sarah and I’m a PhD student in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. I have always been interested in how individuals perceive the world and why the modern environment has se…

Our Sensor CDT student Mohammed Alawami is a second year PhD student working on the development of cutting-edge RNA analysis tools for early detection of cancer.He is also the founder of ReachSci, an organisation supporting underrepresented students with skill training to help them unravel their potential and increase their chances to access top Un…