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We had a wonderful evening yesterday when we gave a presentation at Camcycle’s monthly meeting. We are also doing an inventory to make sure we know how many sensor kits we have. The sensors that we built are all working but still need to be secured in their boxes. Some of them will go directly to Scotland to the Highland Cycling Campaign and we are…

We are also looking into building a newer version of the sensor hub that will measure more air quality indicators (such as NO2). Around one of those new sensors, we will organise another workshop at the Centre for Computing History (www.computinghistory.org.uk). With lots of lessons learned at the workshop in summer, we will not solder a whole sens…

Congratulations go to Francesca van Tartwijk, of the 2017 student cohort, who was awarded the Robert Barnes Prize(Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology) (established 2018) last week.  The prize is awarded to a graduate student who, having obtained a distinction in the examinations, attains the highest aggregate mark from among all Queens' candidates f…

This week’s newsletter is a fairly short one. We are slowly redistributing sensors from volunteers who have been collecting data for the last months. We are also working on the next batch (we ran out of screws and had to order again). And we are finishing a grant application while the deadline keeps coming closer every day. In the meantime, we fina…

This year, the Sensor CDT MRes student cohort developed a low-cost air-pollution sensor which could be built and used by the public.  The team presented the results from their team challenge projectat Sensors Day 2018.  Take a look at their presentation:

Another week has gone by and we were busy soldering/building new sensors. Our seafaring sensor has come back safely from its trip with SailBritain (we have some wonderful pictures below). We will also propose a very interesting CamBike-related group design project to Part IB Computer Science students as part of their practical work in Lent term (mo…

Congratulations go to Oliver Vanderpoorten on winning the Flash Talk prize, and to Peter Pedersen on winning the Networking prize at the Sensor CDT PhD Showcase.  Both are members of the Sensor CDT, and win £100 each.  Our thanks go to Magna for sponsoring the prizes.

Congratulations go to Tiesheng Wang (Sensor CDT) and to Philipp Koehler (Nano DTC, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry) who won the prizes for the Sensors Day Poster Competition.  Tiesheng won first prize of £250 and Philipp the second prize of £100.  Our thanks go to Magna for sponsoring the prizes.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our presentation last week! We enjoyed both the Sensor PhD Showcase and Sensors Day very much and hope you did as well. The presentation we gave is a bit too large to upload (over 100MB) - we shouldn’t have shown so many small videos! We will prepare a condensed version without the videos and upload it to th…

The Sensor CDT hosted another successful Sensors Day conference. Now in its fourth year, 170 delegates attended the conference on 19 October 2018 in Fitzwilliam College, representing UK universities from around the country, including Bristol, Glasgow, UCL, Imperial College, Middlesex, Newcastle and  Oxford. International students and researchers fr…

This week we would again like to invite you to Sensors Day 2018. We will present the project and show the latest data at the conference on 19 October in Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. If you are interested in attending, you can just drop by (the presentation starts at 12:10 and lasts about half an hour). The entry for you is FREE - y…

The 2018 cohort of Sensor CDT students arrived on 1 October 2018.  They were introduced to the CDT Team, current student cohorts and PIs, provided with course information, and treated with tons of health and safety advice!  Quite a lot to take in on the first day.We have a cohort of 15 exceptionally strong students joining the CDT this year, raisin…

A four day workshop for students, early career researchers and entrepreneurs to develop potential solutions to the plastic pollution problem. Organised by the EPSRC Sensor CDT, NERC British Antartic Survey and Value in Enterprise.How might we reduce and recycle plastics?Natural and social scientist, engineers and entrepreneurs are getting together …

The CamBike team members have been enjoying their (well-deserved) holiday and of course combined it with some data collection. Read on to also learn more about the first major distribution event!DistributionThe first batch of CamBike sensors in wooden boxes has hit the road! The sensors were given out to interested members of the public and the fir…

We will be hosting a 'Supercontinuum in Microscopy and Biological Imaging Applications Workshop' from 26-28 November 2018 inclusive.  The purpose of the workshop is to educate SUPUVIR students in the theory and practice of the principles and use of advanced microscopy techniques. The workshop will consist of lectures, that go through the optical ph…