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Dr Galindo-Nava wins 2019 Metals Young Investigator Award

17 April 2019 Dr Enrique Galindo-Nava has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Metals Young Investigator Award offered by the Metals journal this year to the most outstanding...

22 June 2026

Awards and Prizes

Two Department winners – CSAR PhD Student Awards 2019!

17 April 2019 The Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) recently announced the names of the 12 PhD students from the University of Cambridge who have received the...

22 June 2026

Awards and Prizes

Cambridge Rolls-Royce UTC receives recognition for their diversity

04 April 2019 The University of Cambridge Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Encouraging Diversity in Science & Engineering, jointly shared with the Whittle...

22 June 2026

General

Rob Somekh 1947-2019

28 March 2019 Following a PhD in low temperature physics, Rob Somekh began work in the department in 1972, joining the then Superconductivity Group as a post doc. under Jan...

22 June 2026

General

Professor Serena Best CBE receives a Suffrage Science Award

11 March 2019 Congratulations to Professor Serena Best CBE who received a Suffrage Science Award (Engineering and Physical Sciences) last Friday. The Suffrage Science scheme celebrates women in science for their...

22 June 2026

Papers of the Month

Introducing GOSH: the geometry optimisation of structures from hyperspace

March, 2019 Techniques which predict crystal structure are a mainstay of modern materials science. A key ingredient in these techniques is the optimisation of candidate structures, which then reveal local...

22 June 2026

Papers of the Month

Surface potential tailoring of electrospun polymer fibers for enhanced triboelectric performance

March, 2019 Triboelectric generators rely on contact-generated surface charge transfer between materials with different electron affinities to convert mechanical energy into useful electricity. The ability to modify the surface chemistry...

22 June 2026

General

Professor Oliver’s #MyScienceInquiry Select Committee pitch to be taken forward

28 February 2019 The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have decided to take forward Professor Rachel Oliver’s #MyScienceInquiry proposal looking into the “Impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and...

22 June 2026

Papers of the Month

Unveiling the Chemical Composition of Halide Perovskite Films Using Multivariate Statistical Analyses

February, 2019 The local chemical composition of halide perovskites is a crucial factor in determining their macroscopic properties and their stability. While the combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)...

22 June 2026