As part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, Josh was given the opportunity to embark on a 3-month internship with a university or industrial partner during the 4-year studentship. As his project focus surrounds

Following on from the success of last year’s challenge, new students from the CDT-ACM were asked to build working microscopes for just £100. Four teams competed to win a prize awarded by the CDT.  The winning microscope, designed and built

Tim Ellis has been working at Rutgers University in the laboratory of Professor Stephan Schwander in the Public School of Health where he has been developing key skills in the handling of bacteria and the genetic profiling of immune cells

Massive congratulations to Bernice Akpinar who completed the London to Land’s End Cycle Challenge. She cycled over 353 miles to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. Bernice managed to complete the challenge over three and a half days, finishing

On 5-7 July CDT-ACM students Sofia Marchesini, Daphné Lubert-Perquel and Kate Fomcenkova visited St Paul’s School to organise an outreach programme exploring the magic of materials. Pupils were able to test the effects of heat on different materials such as

On Friday 15 April, postgraduate CDT students at Imperial College organised the CDT Festival of Science 2016 around the theme of ‘Science & Science Fiction’. It was a day of activities based on futuristic technologies including testing virtual reality Google

First year CDT-ACM students visited the Diamond Light Source Facility at Harwell for a four-day residential introductory course last week. They were introduced to facilities and techniques at Diamond Light Source and the ISIS neutron and muon facility, learning about

It has now been a year since Josh Bailey became the co-lead of UCell, a not-for-profit public engagement group specialising in the green energy solutions, such as hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucell). After a very busy year of

As a part of outreach and volunteering activities, first year CDT student Oscar Williams has helped to organise and participate in outreach events through the PhD student-led society UCell. UCell is a society concerned with increasing public knowledge about fuel

We are inviting applications for a fully funded 4-year PhD project in the area of surface chemical physics in Professor Geoff Thornton’s research group http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/research/group_pages/nano/ at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, and in close collaboration with Imperial