I originally planned to start my UKRI Policy internship at the Government Office for Science (GO-Science) last March, but as with most aspects of our lives, this had to be put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the
CDT ACM Cohort 6 student, Claudia-Tatiana Santos Maldonado has been recently granted with a travel grant from Max-Planck Institute. She will have the opportunity to attend the centre, receive mentorship from Dr.Zaefferer, and present her work among six other students selected
CDT students Jennifer Hack and Rebecca Shutt along with UCL student Drasti Patel recently won a grant for £500 from the Institute of Physics London and South East Branch to create a Podcast called “Unbalanced”, which will be exploring gender and
CDT ACM cohort 6 student, Annie Regan, will be speaking at on July 11th 2020 as part of their first ever online event. Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform that promotes women in science, and the science they
As many other the ACM seminar series moved online. Last week we welcomed Ricardo Comin as our first external speaker. Riccardo is Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on X-ray imaging of complex materials
Yesterday our PhD students launched their first livestream in a weekly series of sessions. During the session they are discussing how life is affected by the lockdown and look behind Covid-19 science. This week’s session is about false information that
On February 24th, students from Imperial College London, University College London and Trinity College Dublin gathered in the UK as part of the sixth CDT ACM cohort’s visit to Diamond Light Source. Starting at 10am at the Harwell Science and
This year’s CDT ACM cohort of students from Imperial, UCL and TCD recently gathered in Dublin for two weeks, to take part in an intensive microscopy training programme at the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (AML) at Trinity College Dublin. Through instrument
We show how novel chemistry can be used to separate inorganic arsenic(III) and arsenic(V) – a material we have patented and named ImpAs, consisting of a arsenic(V)-selective metal-organic chemisorbent receptor supported on polymer resin beads. We show two cases
Third year student Seigo Masuda (CDT cohort 4) helped to initiate and work with Rackets Cubed, a charity that runs integrated Squash, Tennis, Education (STEM / Maths) and Nutrition for local school children. Seigo is currently doing a PhD in