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We are recruiting for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes + PhD studentship, in collaboration with MedImmune, starting in October 2016.  For details of the project please go to  cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk/industry-studentships.Please note that this studentship is only open to UK and EU nationals.The deadline for applications is Friday, 25 March 2016.

Is there enough oxygen in my blood?The Sensor CDT took part in the annual Cambridge Science Festival.A busy weekend in March 2016 saw around 2000 visitors coming to the Plant and Life Sciences Marquee where staff and students from the Sensor CDT demonstrated their prototype pulse oximeter. The general public, from school children to retired enginee…

Congratulations to our Sensor Champions, Josie Hughes and Philip Mair.Many congratulations to our 2015 Sensor Champions, Josephine Hughes and Philip Mair.  Both students produced stellar work for both the practical and research components of the programme in their MRes year and fully embraced the interdisciplinary nature of the Sensor CDT course. J…

The second cohort of Sensor CDT students has arrived at the beginning of October to embark on their four year MRes + PhD programme with us.A new cohort of 15 Sensor CDT students from the UK, EU and overseas has just started their MRes part of the CDT programme. They all have a common interest in sensing and will contribute their experiences and kno…

The first cohort has completed their eleven months MRes course and is now preparing to embark on their individual PhD projects in five different Departments.The first cohort of ten Sensor CDT students has successfully completed the MRes. Over the last eleven months the students attended a set of bespoke and in-depth lectures, received training on n…

MRes student Tiesheng Wang presents a Sensor Team Challenge prototype at this year's Open Technology Week.A prototype sensor for monitoring elderly people in their own home has been presented at the 2015 Open Technology Week which runs from 26-30 July at a number of venues across Cambridge.Open Technology Week - an opportunity forthe Sensor CDT to …

We will showcase innovative and exciting sensor technologies and applications at the international Sensors Day 2015. This one-day conference will be held on 16 October 2015 at Murray Edwards College. The first cohort of Sensor CDT students will demonstrate their comprehensive set of sensors for assisted living developed during their Sensor Team…

The pharmaceutical company MedImmune will sponsor up to two Sensor CDT studentships per year.The international pharmaceutical company MedImmune has joined the consortium of industrial partners of the Sensor CDT. With its major R&D hub based in Cambridge, MedImmune has already strong links with individual researchers from Cambridge University and th…

The Sensor CDT students are starting their final MRes project, the Sensor Team Challenge. This year's topic is "Assisted Living".The first cohort of Sensor CDT students is just starting its Sensor Team Challenge on Assisted living for the elderly. The students will develop a network of sensors helping to assist people in their homes to live a more …

Josie Hughes publishes the results from her Mini Project on noise monitors connected via a Bluetooth Low Energy network in the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent SystemsJosephine Hughes, an MRes student in the first cohort of the Sensor CDT has just published the results from her 8 week Mini Project entitled "Development of wire…

Prof Clemens Kaminski was elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in recognition of "pioneering work in the development of optical methods for quantifying the kinetics of reactions in chemical and biological systems". Over his career Prof. Kaminski developed wide range of time resolved optical imaging techniques to monitor chemi…

The first cohort of 10 Sensor CDT students has arrived this week. The first cohort of ten students have embarked on the Sensor CDT course this week. The students, with undergraduate degrees in physics, engineering, biochemistry and biology, have been selected out of a large competitive field of applicants. The three women and seven men come from u…

The Sensor CDT marks the start of the CDT with a reception and dinner at Trinity College for academic and industrial partners.In the run-up to the the imminent arrival of the first student cohort in a month's time, the Sensor CDT starts in style with a drinks reception and dinner at Trinity College.       This was a great opportunity for CDT superv…

Dr Tanya Hutter and Dr Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos join us as senior teaching fellows in charge of educational delivery Welcome to Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos and Tanya HutterWe would like to welcome the new senior teaching fellows, Dr. Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos and Dr. Tanya Hutter, both who join us as Senior Teaching Fellows of the EPSRC …

Tanya Hutter and Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos are starting as the new CDT Senior Teaching FellowsTanya Hutter and Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos have been appointed as Senior Teaching Fellows of the Sensor CDT.Both are chemical engineers by training.Tanya holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, M.Sc. in Materials Science and a PhD in Physical Chemis…