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The Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) recently announced the names of the 10 PhD students from the University of Cambridge who have received the 2018 CSAR PhD Student Awards for Applied Research.Tiesheng Wang from the EPSRC sensor CDT is one of the award winners. https://www.csar.org.uk/student-awards/2018/tiesheng-wang/ His …

Sensor CDT student Tiesheng Wang and his supervisor Stoyan Smoukov have developed a new supercapacitor made from a "candy cane" like flexible polymer material composite. Its flexibility and higher charge holding properties could enable new sensor applications, such as implantable sensors.  Tiesheng Wang, a final year PhD student of the Sensor CDT, …

Sensor CDT students teamed up with students and staff from the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction to think collectively about sensor solutions to challenges in the built environment.Students from all Sensor CDT cohorts teamed up with students and staff from the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction to find potenti…

Molecular sensors, sensing in the Antarctic, robotics...The third Sensors Day conference took place at Robinson College in Cambridge on 20 October 2017.As always, this conference brought together speakers from a range of sensing disciplines (see full programme here). Allard Mosk, Marina Kuimova, Tuomas Knowles and Ljiljana Fruk presented captivatin…

Students from all three Sensor CDT cohorts traveled to Marston Vale to meet up with the MAS CDT for a joint away day aiming to solve research problems together.Students from the Sensor CDT and the Molecular Analytical Science CDT met at the Marston Vale Forest Centre about half way between Cambridge and Warwick for a packed day of academic and fun …

A four-month challenge to build low-cost sensors and instruments for biology OpenPlant, CamBridgeSens SRN and the Synthetic Biology SRI are hosting an interdisciplinary challenge across Cambridge and Norwich. Calling all biologists looking to improve their research and pick up some electronics knowledge, engineers looking to apply their skills and …

By combining their scientific and managerial skills, the third cohort of Sensor CDT students will develop low-cost and open-source cell-free molecular diagnostics for biological and chemical sensor applications.Low-cost, fast and reliable virus and chemical detectionThe third student cohort has started its team challenge on cell-free molecular diag…

Second prize in the #CDTinnovation category goes to Oliver VanderpoortenCongratulations to Oliver Vanderpoorten, from the 2015 cohort, for winning second prize in the CDT Twitter photo competition for his entry: Fluorescently labelled BAG neurons in C.Elegans - a simple model organism to study neurodegenerative diseases.The Twitter photo competitio…

Second prize in the #CDTinnovation category goes to Oliver VanderpoortenCongratulations to Oliver Vanderpoorten, from the 2015 cohort, for winning second prize in the CDT Twitter photo competition for his entry: Fluorescently labelled BAG neurons in C.Elegans - a simple model organism to study neurodegenerative diseases.The Twitter photo competitio…

We are recruiting for two fully funded 1+3 years MRes +PhD studentships, in collaboration with MedImmune, starting in October 2017. Further details can be found here.The deadline for applications is 31 May 2017.

Poster session on interdisciplinary sensor researchThe 2016-17 MRes mini-research projects are drawing to a close. Last Wednesday, oral presentations filled a whole morning and the afternoon’s poster session saw the students engaging with the research community at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.This year the interdisciplinar…

A team of Sensor CDT students demonstrated their research projects at the Cambridge Science FestivalA student team from the 2016 MRes cohort presented their pulse oximeter which they built during their Guided Sensor Project in December.  Carolina Orozco, Elise Siouve, Francesco Tonolini and Sammy Mahdi presented their Arduino based pulse oximeter t…

Allowing older people to live in their own homes for longerA new startup, set up by six science and technology students studying towards their PhD in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sensor Technologies and Applications, is developing an innovative technology platform with the potential to revolutionise at-home care for older people …

Sensor CDT start-up company looking for first round funding. Presentation 21 Feb 2017, 4pm, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Site, Cambridge.Six students from the first cohort have started a company to develop a technology platform which will help older people to live in their own homes for longer, allowing them to retain …

The University will be receiving 18 million pounds to develop a new national Centre for Infrastructure Sensing on the West Cambridge Site.The University of Cambridge will receive £18 million in funding to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure is resilient and responsive to environmental and economic impacts. The funding will be used to support  resea…