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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge @eng.cam.ac.uk · Nov 18
Welcome to the Autumn 2025 edition of our Dept. magazine featuring Prof Shaun Fitzgerald @climaterepair.bsky.social on the cover ❄️ He’s been successful in obtaining funding from ARIA✅

More on page 5. View here: www.eng.cam.ac.uk/uploads/page...

#engineering

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Front cover of the Autumn 2025 edition of the Department of Engineering News featuring Prof Fitzgerald in the snow wearing a snow jacket and a scarf covering his face. Only his eyes are visible.
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The Department of Engineering has its own shining stars this festive season. The Engineering Library Team won for 'Creating an Inclusive and Welcoming Community' in the @cam.ac.uk Professional Services Awards 2025.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Merry Christmas to everyone in Cambridge and around the world 🎄

Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice and Chancellor Lord Chris Smith share their Christmas and New Year wishes, alongside a joyful performance from the University’s first-ever Gospel Choir society.
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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✨Celebrating our library stars at the 2025 Professional Services Awards! ✨

Team winner: the Department of Engineering Library Team

Team winner: the Cambridge University Library Participation Team

Individual winner: Hélène Fernandes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library
Library services winners at the 2025 Professional Services Awards.
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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#Research #technicians from across the UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems (RAS) community gathered at our Department for knowledge exchange, collaboration & hands-on learning as part of the UK RAS STEPS & @cam.ac.uk #Robotics Workshop 🤖

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Technicians and researchers in robotics and autonomous systems championed at knowledge exchange workshop
The aim of the workshop was to bring together technicians and researchers to share best practice, showcase innovation and build stronger networks across the robotics community. The event, held recentl...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Our first lecture of 2026 will be from Professor Robin Langley FREng, who will talk on 'Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer' @eng.cam.ac.uk

2 February 2026, 18:00– 19:00

BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Research on creativity, problem solving and design thinking has been shared globally in an award-winning online course. Prof Nathan Crilly and three students were in a team which won a gold Learning Technologies Award. @cambridge.org @ifmcambridge.bsky.social

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Engineers win national award for teaching creativity and solution development skills
Professor of Design Nathan Crilly and his team won Gold at the Learning Technologies Awards for their Cambridge Advance Online (CAO) course, 'Creativity, Problem Solving and Design Thinking'. The awar...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Augmented Industries, a #tech company founded by @ifmcambridge.bsky.social alumni, secures €4.5m in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-driven platform that supports industrial technicians on the factory floor

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Co-founded by Dr Elisa Roth & Dr Mirco Roth (pictured)
Cambridge-founded start-up raises €4.5m to accelerate AI tools for industrial technicians
The Munich-based start-up was co-founded by Dr Elisa Roth and Dr Mirco Roth, both industrial engineers who completed their PhDs at IfM, part of the Department of Engineering. Their flagship product, F...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Dr Somenath Bakshi is 1 of 8 @cam.ac.uk researchers who will receive a share of the @erc.europa.eu's €728m Consolidator Grant awards this year

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He will map how bacterial physiology controls the infection dynamics of phage – a #virus that infects & kills #bacteria 🦠
Cambridge researcher awarded ERC funding to explore virus-bacteria interactions to combat antibiotic resistance
Dr Bakshi will map how bacterial physiology, including cellular resources, energy and stress, controls the infection dynamics of phage – a virus that infects and kills bacteria. To achieve this, he wi...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Aerial views of Cambridge Botanic Lights – the Garden looking amazing from above! ✨

📸Thank you to TNK Visuals for these fantastic shots!

🎫Want to see it for yourself? Tickets are still available for upcoming evenings through the link on our profile.

#CambridgeBotanicLights
Aerial view of a night-time illumination event at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, showcasing pathways and trees lit with vibrant, multicoloured lights. Aerial view of Cambridge University Botanic Garden illuminated with vibrant, colourful lights at night, showcasing an array of trees and pathways lit in various hues. Aerial view of the lights trail at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, showcasing vivid multicoloured lights illuminating trees and paths at night, with a cityscape in the background. Aerial night view of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden Fountain, illuminated in vibrant purple and pink lights, surrounded by trees with purple lights.
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Research #technicians from across the UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems (RAS) community gathered at our Department for knowledge exchange, collaboration & hands-on learning as part of the UK RAS STEPS & @cam.ac.uk #Robotics Workshop 🤖

www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/technic...

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Technicians and researchers in robotics and autonomous systems championed at knowledge exchange workshop
The aim of the workshop was to bring together technicians and researchers to share best practice, showcase innovation and build stronger networks across the robotics community. The event, held recentl...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Prof Garth Wells (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) named Deputy Executive Chair of the EPSRC, part of @ukri.org. Areas that he will be involved in: Skills & Talent, Digital Research Infrastructure, Trusted Research & Innovation & the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme

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Professor Garth Wells named as Deputy Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Garth joined EPSRC as Deputy Executive Chair in October 2025 on secondment from the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. Garth says: "My engagement with EPSRC started as a grant holder,...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Scientists from our Dept, @ceb.cam.ac.uk & Thayer School of #Engineering at #Dartmouth measured electrical signals in the ‘2nd brain in our guts’ for the 1st-ever time, giving renewed understanding to its interconnection with the #brain 🧠

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Tiny device to transform understanding of our ‘second brain'
Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth have...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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🚀 Launching the Local Government AI Accelerator 🚀

We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities.

Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026
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December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Dr Somenath Bakshi is 1 of 8 @cam.ac.uk researchers who will receive a share of the @erc.europa.eu's €728m Consolidator Grant awards this year

www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

He will map how bacterial physiology controls the infection dynamics of phage – a #virus that infects & kills #bacteria 🦠
Cambridge researcher awarded ERC funding to explore virus-bacteria interactions to combat antibiotic resistance
Dr Bakshi will map how bacterial physiology, including cellular resources, energy and stress, controls the infection dynamics of phage – a virus that infects and kills bacteria. To achieve this, he wi...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Here are some facts and figures from the 2025 Consolidator Grant call:

🔶 €728 million in funding

🔶 349 mid-career researchers from Europe and beyond

🔶 44 different nationalities

All of them pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Congratulations!

#ERCCoG #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣

349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!

👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV

#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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PhD student Zhijun Xu has been awarded the Department of Engineering’s 2025 Turner Prize for his innovative contributions to geotechnical centrifuge modelling. Zhijun is researching the "Behaviour of Novel Retaining Systems for Excavation in Clay".

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PhD student wins award for innovative geotechnical research
Zhijun’s award was for his development of innovative apparatus for modelling excavations in clay. This assesses the impact of soil deformation and ground settlement from deep excavations on nearby str...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Scientists from our Dept, @ceb.cam.ac.uk & Thayer School of #Engineering at #Dartmouth measured electrical signals in the ‘2nd brain in our guts’ for the 1st-ever time, giving renewed understanding to its interconnection with the #brain 🧠

www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/tiny-de...

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Tiny device to transform understanding of our ‘second brain'
Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth have...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Join us at our ✨CHRISTMAS✨ Neurotalks next week to hear about the nostalgia of Christmas! And since its Christmas, there will be wine on us 🥂

🗓️Tues 9 December
🕐7pm-9pm
🗺️ Cambridge Tap
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Prof Garth Wells (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) named Deputy Executive Chair of the EPSRC, part of @ukri.org. Areas that he will be involved in: Skills & Talent, Digital Research Infrastructure, Trusted Research & Innovation & the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme

www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Garth Wells named as Deputy Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Garth joined EPSRC as Deputy Executive Chair in October 2025 on secondment from the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. Garth says: "My engagement with EPSRC started as a grant holder,...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Dr Luppi named a Rising Star in Neuroscience🌟Congratulations! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Dr Andrea Luppi is one of 25 early-career researchers recognised for their outstanding scientific contributions and commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.
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Dr Andrea Luppi named ‘Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025’
Dr Andrea Luppi is among 25 researchers worldwide to be recognised by The Transmitter – a US-based publication for the neuroscience community. Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025 honours early-career re...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Dr Chapa Sirithunge is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in robotics in the Civil Engineering Division and the Bio-inspired Robotics Laboratory. Her research interests span assistive robotics, soft robots and physical human-robot interaction.

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📢 New Episode Alert!

This week, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about what robots can teach us about human anatomy, and vice versa. 🤖

Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/28/e... #Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Cambridge wins £1.34 m EPSRC grant to pioneer circular power electronics — repairable, reusable, recyclable. Led by Prof Teng Long. bit.ly/48fgxZ1
Cambridge wins £1.34m EPSRC grant to drive innovation in circular power electronics
The project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), aims to revolutionise how power converters are designed, built and reused – marking a major step toward circular ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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1st year MEng student Malaika Jha, joined @rollsroycegroup.bsky.social for a 10-week internship over summer 2025 and shared her thoughts and insights on the experience.
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Student internship: Malaika Jha at Rolls-Royce 2025
Exploring Innovation in Aerospace What drew you to this placement? I wanted to experience working in an aerospace engineering company at the forefront of innovation and growth, and see how different t...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM