In the last month and a half we have had two of our cohort 1 students (Lewis Hart and Rebecca Purkiss) pass their vivas!
Lewis is staying on at the University of Bath, to complete a Postdoctoral position with Dr … Read more
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Reflections of a CDT student on completing a summer placement in the patent profession
20th August 2018
Last month, Lauren Cane of cohort 2 completed a summer placement at Dehns, a leading firm of patent and trade mark attorneys. Here she shares her thoughts on patents and the intersection of science, law and … Read more
First CDT-CMP Newsletter!
CDT-CMP involved in the Sutton Trust Scheme
As part of the Sutton Trust scheme, a group of talks were hosted at the University of Bristol to a group of high achieving prospective A-level students. These talks were given by members of the CDT-CMP and covered the subjects … Read more
Quantum Materials Workshop
Enrico Da Como organised and hosted a great workshop at the University of Bath last week, with Jasper van Wezel from the University of Amsterdam on Quantum Materials. The workshop was supported by the Royal Society.
The workshop featured talks … Read more
SPM Poster Prize awarded to Rebecca Purkiss
Congratulations to Cohort 1 student Rebecca Purkiss on being the 1st Prize Poster Winner at the RMS SPM Meeting in Leeds 2018, for her poster ‘Regulating the femtosecond excited-state lifetime of a single molecule’ .
Welcome Event for Cohort 5
Last week the CDT-CMP hosted a Welcome Event for Cohort 5, in the style of a BBQ with a public engagement activity in the morning.
The day saw a number of current students and academics from both Bath and Bristol … Read more
CDT at Eureka 2018 – Physics at Bath
Dr Ventsislav Valev, last week organised a departmental research conference “Eureka 2018: Physics in Bath.”
The purpose of the conference was to enable people to share their latest research with colleagues from the department, providing them the chance to engage … Read more
Cohort 2 Student gets musical
Cohort 2 student Aitor Garcia Ruiz gave an excellent Piano performance last night!
Aitor finished his studies in Piano performance in Real Conservatorio de Musica de Madrid in 2012. He has studied with Jacobo Ponce and received Masterclasses, among others, … Read more
Congratulations to Ventsi Valev on VC Award for Public Engagement
Dr Ventsislav Valev from the University of Bath (a CDT-CMP Supervisor) was awarded this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research.
Ventsi’s work focuses on the interactions between light and new chiral nanomaterials. These emerging materials are creating … Read more