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During my 10-day mandatory COVID-19 quarantine, I reflected on my journey to Cambridge. I concluded that it can best be described using an African proverb, ‘it takes a village to raise a child’.My story dates back to 2020 when I was offered a place in the 2020/2021 cohort. I was not able to take up my place due to reasons beyond my control. Fortuna…

As one of three winners of the Women4Climate Tech Challenge, Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier from the University of Cambridge secures funding and support to pilot the Open-seneca initiative's community air-quality-tracking project in Stockholm and Lisbon.Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier, a second year PhD student at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Bi…

Sensor CDT student alumnus Tiesheng Wang has recently joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an Assistant Professor.  Very many congratulations Tiesheng!

Open-seneca has won a Vice-Chancellor's Research Impact and Engagement Award!  Twelve students, academics and professional members of staff from across the University of Cambridge received the prestigeous awards in areas as diverse as prostate cancer, family law, museum public engagement and police mental health.Now in their fourth year, the awards…

Sensor CDT student, Oliver Vanderpoorten has paper "Scalable integration of nano-, and microfluidics with hybrid lithography", by Vanderpoorten et al, published in Microsystems and Nanoengineering (Nature publishing group) as featured highlight article on the main homepage.  Congratulations to Oliver!

As well as running very successful Summer School events and a mini Make-a-thon at Cambridge MakeSpace, the Sensor CDT 2018 student cohort have been hard at work with media coverage for their Solicamb project.They recently saw the release of a double-page spread in The Independent, a feature on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Cambridge 105 Radio, and on T…

The 2019 National Science Photography Competition, organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) part of UK Research and Innovation, has recently announced the winners.  We are proud to announce Peter Pedersen (Sensor CDT 2017 cohort) won a prize in the Equipment and Facilities category for 'Citizen science abroad'.Tak…

Congratulations to Sensor CDT MRes students Theo Baissas and Ben Woodington who won two prizes at the MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack in Paris.  They were awarded second place within the Mental Health and Neurology section, and the Deeptech Founders prize for their in-ear EEG app.The MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack was the first outside of the Unit…

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications, in collaboration with Hitachi, is inviting applications for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes + PhD studentship, commencing in October 2019. The studentship will be hosted in the BioNanoEngineering group (https://www.fruk-lab.com) in the Department of Chemical Engineering a…

To nurture the development of future talent in the Cambridge ecosystem, AstraZeneca's Project Beacon is working in collaboration with the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies to fund PhD projects on an annual basis.  Here, Carolina Orozco and colleagues tell us more about the project.

Tiesheng Wang from the 2014 cohort and his collaborators have figured out a generic way to confine materials inside a space with a typical dimension of 1-to-2 nm, a bit like building a ship inside a bottle. They have established a rational approach, called Pourbaix Enabled Guest Synthesis (PEGS), to identify the boundary conditions for a desired sh…

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications for a Healthy and Sustainable Future at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The venture will provide PhD training for at least 50 PhD students between 2019 and 2027.The programme builds on the current …

Sensor CDT Student, Pelumi Oluwasanya, and his supervisor, Dr Luigi Occhipinti (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge), have been awarded an ESPRC IAA PDA grant.  The project will run from 1 April to 30 September 2019.The grant is a Partnership Development Award (PDA) with Applied NanoDetectors who will supply £45k in-kind support and …

Josie Hughes from the 2014 cohort has developed a robotic hand which mimics the movements of a human hand to play piano. Using soft and rigid parts the robotic hand helps to understand the complex movements of the human hand.  This robotic hand was developed by Josie Hughes, Perla Maiolino and Fumiya Iida from the Biologically Inspired Robotics Gro…

Congratulations to the CamBike Sensor Team (Sensor CDT 2017 Cohort) for being awarded the University’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) for “Co-creating a context-appropriate mobile air quality sensor network for citizen science in Nairobi".  The team were awarded a grant of £15,000 for the project.