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We are recruiting for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes + PhD studentship, in collaboration with MedImmune, starting in October 2017. Further details can be found here.The deadline for applications is Monday, 6 March 2017.

We are recruiting for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes + PhD studentship, in collaboration with MedImmune, starting in October 2017.  Details of the project and how to apply can be found here.The deadline for applications is Tuesday, 28 February 2017.

Josephine Hughes is runner-up of the "Unsung hero award" for her work in organising the RoboCup Junior competitionJosie Hughes, a Sensor CDT student in the first cohort, has been involved in organising the RoboCup Junior competition for some time. In 2015 she went to Hefei in China to help running the event.RoboCup Junior encourages young people be…

Prestigious prize awarded to Sensor CDT student Chris ValentineSensor CDT student Chris Valentine was awarded the Leete Premium award for the research he will be carrying out as part of his PhD studies. The Leete Award is given annually by the Engineer’s Trust toy a 1st year PhD student based at the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM), which is part o…

From neurons to nanomaterials, flying particles to acoustic thermometry...The second Sensors Day conference took place at Churchill College in Cambridge on 14 October 2016. Hosted by the Sensor CDT, the event brought an eclectic mix of talks to a broad audience from academia and industry. From sensing in the extreme environment of Erebus volcano to…

Students successfully designed, built and tested an open source optical projection tomography system to image biological samples in 3D. Completed: Sensor Team Challenge on Optical Projection TomographyThe second cohort of Sensor CDT students has finished their 15 week Sensor Team Challenge. This project is a major part of the MRes course, requiring…

CDT students, Oliver Bonner and Josie Hughes, from the first cohort were interviewed recently on Cambridge TV about the Sensor Team Challenge on assisted living technology. The project was carried out in the final term of the MRes year at the Sensor CDT and involved the entire cohort working together as a group.Watch the interview to find out more …

The Royal Society's Interface Focus Journal has published a special issue dedicated to the research topics covered at Sensors Day 2015The theme of the issue is "Sensors in Nature and Technology" and gives a fascinating overview of how sensors in nature serve as inspiration for novel technologies, and also vice versa, how technology gives us better …

A research paper on assisted living technology, authored by the first cohort of Sensor CDT students, has been published in the Royal Society's Interface Focus journal.The first cohort at the Sensor CDT has just published the results from the Sensor Team Challenge - a 12-week project carried out during the MRes year. The research article, “Developme…

The Sensor CDT students ran a sell-out workshop on how to use Arduino micro controllers in research labsArduino workshopHow to use Arduinos in your researchA team of first and second year Sensor CDT students ran an extremely enjoyable and successful one day workshop on how to use Arduino micro controllers for research applications.The examples were…

 MedImmune is supporting the Sensor CDT as part of its Beacon projectResearchers from MedImmune and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology are collaborating on a number of projects in the areas of bio-engineering, -processing and -pharmaceuticals.This Beacon Project collaboration is part of the pharmaceutical cluster in Cambridge,…

The second student cohort at the Sensor CDT featured in a recent article in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology’s newsletter, CEB Focus (Issue 18, May 2016). Written by our graduate student, Dimitrios Simatos, the piece highlights the diverse range of sensor related mini-research projects undertaken by the CDT students during t…

The Sensor Team Challenge, the final project for the MRes students at the Sensor CDT, is underway. The 2016 challenge is to develop an Optical Projection Tomography system.The second cohort of Sensor CDT students has been set the challenge of developing a 3D Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) system to image biological samples.This 15 week project…

We are recruiting for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes + PhD studentship, in collaboration with MedImmune, starting in October 2016. For more information please have a look at the project details.Please note that this studentship is only open to UK and EU nationals.The deadline for applications is Friday, 13 May 2016.

Josie Hughes, 1st year Sensor CDT PhD student, taught a group of Cambridge undergraduate engineers the basics of interfacing sensors with Arduino microcontrollers as part of a project to introduce students to coding and electronics.Undergraduate engineering students at Murray Edwards College enjoyed an afternoon at the end of term diving into progr…