Rethinking how AI reads history

Dr Sebastian Ahnert awarded Schmidt Sciences HAVI research award to create a new AI architecture that more accurately reflects the way humans read.
CEB Infrastructure Manager wins Professional Services Award

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB)’s Infrastructure Manager, Alexander Carvell, has won a Professional Services award for demonstrating excellence in leadership and management.
Professor Gabriele Kaminski Schierle awarded leading biophysics prize

CEB’s Professor of Molecular Biotechnology awarded the Sosei Heptares Prize by the British Biophysical Society
Tiny device to transform understanding of ‘second brain’

New implant captures gut-brain signals in awake, moving animals, offering fresh insight into disorders linked to the gut-brain connection
Double success

Department-linked Sensor CDT researchers win both EPSRC postdoctoral fellowships.
Nanodomains hold the key to next-generation solar cells, researchers find

A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal’s front cover this month, has uncovered insights into the tiny structures that could take solar energy to the next level.
In memory of Professor James ‘Jim’ Wilkes (1932 – 2020)

OBITUARY In memory of James ‘Jim’ Wilkes by Sir David Harrison I first met Jim in October 1956 when we arrived together as the most junior members of staff of the Cambridge Chemical Engineering department which had opened just six years earlier. Jim had arrived by way of the Chemical Engineering Tripos, which he completed […]