Third year PGR Emily Glover reports on her visit to IOPP last week (19th February): I visited the IOP Publishing headquarters in Bristol, to learn more about a career in scientific publishing. This was first introduced to me as a career opportunity in my first year, through a ‘Beyond a PhD’ talk presented by an […]
Category: Research stays and industry visits
Industry visit to IBM January 2020
On the 16th January, a group of students from the CDT went to visit IBM Hursely to learn about the company and career opportunities that are available to PhD students. Despite an early start from campus, it was a productive day for all of the students, learning about the history of IBM and some of […]
David Newman spends Research Visit at Diamond Light Source
Second year PGR David Newman reports on his latest visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. Between the 9th and 17th of December, I was at the Diamond Light Source in Didcot, near Oxford. The first few days were devoted to […]
Learning from industry: David Osuna Ruiz reports on his placement with Shouhang European S.L
Third year PGR David Osuna Ruiz was recently awarded funding from EPSRC for industry placements in national or international companies whose activities are aligned with the UK National Industry Strategy. David’s field was Renewable Energies. His two-week placement, made possible by the EPSRC’s funding award, was with Shouhang European S.L., which develops energy resources saving […]
Gooch and Housego Industry Visit
In May this year, our first year PGRs (Cohort 5) visited Gooch and Housego, a global leader in photonics technology in Torquay, for an insight into their company and the wider industry. G&H are experts across a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies – crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, fiber optics, DFB […]
Mian Zahid Hussain at ICS Winter School 2019
Recently, third year CDT postgraduate researcher Mian Zahid Hussain secured a grant from Italian Chemical Society (ICS) to participate in a winter school on Catalysis which took place at Bardonecchia, Italy from 7-11 January 2019. The focus of the winter school was to provide a detailed picture of the current scientific challenges to the catalysis […]
XM2 visit at IBM in Daresbury
On Friday, 7th December 2018, 16 of our third and fourth year postgraduate researchers visited The Hartree Centre (IBM) in Daresbury. The Hartree Centre is transforming UK industry through high performance computing, big data and cognitive technologies. We got to know representatives from Daresbury’s IBM research team, who introduced us to their work on data […]
Excursion to California: Beam-time at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley.
XM² PGR David Newman (1st year, supervised by Prof Rob Hicken and Dr Mustafa Aziz ) recently went to the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, California where he was using X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), X-ray ferromagnetic resonance (XFMR) and other magnetic spectroscopic techniques to characterise spin currents in ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic/ferromagnetic trilayer structures and probe the dynamics of […]
Zahid Hussain’s research visit at the TU Munich: MOF-Derived Bimetal Oxide/Carbon (M-MO/C) Nanocomposites for Solar Light Driven Applications
Zahid Hussain started his PhD in the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials in 2016 and was invited to join the Catalysis Research Center at the Technical University, Munich, from January to December 2018. This fantastic opportunity aims to derive bi-metal oxide nanocomposites from metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for high efficient solar light driven applications. Zahid got […]
PGR cohort visit at Gooch & Housego (Photonics Technology, Torbay)
In June, our second year PhD students (2016 cohort) went for ca company visit to Gooch and Housego, a global leader in photonics technology in Torquay. G&H are experts across a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies – crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, fiber optics, DFB laser modules, precision optics (thin-film coating, […]