Prof. Patrick Degenaar
@patrickdegenaar.bsky.social
I am a professor of neuroprosthetics at Newcastle University. I specialise in making implantable brain devices to restore sight to the blind
The Jesmond Dene in Newcastle is lovely at any time of year. But this year, the Autumn leaf fall has been particularly beautiful. Well worth a visit if you are a transient visitor or student in Newcastle city.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Jesmond Dene in Newcastle is lovely at any time of year. But this year, the Autumn leaf fall has been particularly beautiful. Well worth a visit if you are a transient visitor or student in Newcastle city.
Super excited to finally get my DGX Spark AI workstationb(Yay 😁)..... only to realise all tge ports are usbc-c and my keyboards are not... Doh.. will have to wait another day or two to play with it..
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Super excited to finally get my DGX Spark AI workstationb(Yay 😁)..... only to realise all tge ports are usbc-c and my keyboards are not... Doh.. will have to wait another day or two to play with it..
Well done to my PhD student Cong Ma who has published his first paper on "Optimising the Design of Implantable Fuel Cells" www.preprints.org/manuscript/2..., which is part of an EPSRC funded Glutronics project.
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Well done to my PhD student Cong Ma who has published his first paper on "Optimising the Design of Implantable Fuel Cells" www.preprints.org/manuscript/2..., which is part of an EPSRC funded Glutronics project.
It was great to host a fact-finding delegation from South East University, China this week. I was proud to be able to show the standard of our teaching and research here at Newcastle. SEU is a great place. Looking forward to the reciprocal visit.
October 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It was great to host a fact-finding delegation from South East University, China this week. I was proud to be able to show the standard of our teaching and research here at Newcastle. SEU is a great place. Looking forward to the reciprocal visit.
It's great to have a visiting fact-finding delegation from EEE at South-East University China. Proud to show how we do things here at Newcastle.
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's great to have a visiting fact-finding delegation from EEE at South-East University China. Proud to show how we do things here at Newcastle.
Newcastle is a wonderfully friendly and welcoming city. So today I was especially delighted to see thousands of ordinary Geordies show up to prevent a few hundred far-right hooligans from giving the city a bad name.
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Newcastle is a wonderfully friendly and welcoming city. So today I was especially delighted to see thousands of ordinary Geordies show up to prevent a few hundred far-right hooligans from giving the city a bad name.
I reviewed this fascinating piece of work today at TU Delft. Dutch PhD vivas are somewhat different in format to here in the UK. But in the end it is the quality of the candidate that matters. And happy to say he passed my thorough grilling. 😁
September 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I reviewed this fascinating piece of work today at TU Delft. Dutch PhD vivas are somewhat different in format to here in the UK. But in the end it is the quality of the candidate that matters. And happy to say he passed my thorough grilling. 😁
It was wonderful to give my lecture on "Responsible Use of AI for Engineers" to our new MSc cohort today. A great bunch! and we had fun going through the tools together!
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It was wonderful to give my lecture on "Responsible Use of AI for Engineers" to our new MSc cohort today. A great bunch! and we had fun going through the tools together!
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University life can be fun as well as work! From Friday, Newcastle will host its giant funfair called "The Hoppings", a yearly activity dating back to medieval times.
University life can be fun as well as work! From Friday, Newcastle will host its giant funfair called "The Hoppings", a yearly activity dating back to medieval times.
June 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
hoppingsfunfairs.com
University life can be fun as well as work! From Friday, Newcastle will host its giant funfair called "The Hoppings", a yearly activity dating back to medieval times.
University life can be fun as well as work! From Friday, Newcastle will host its giant funfair called "The Hoppings", a yearly activity dating back to medieval times.
Great to have Jason from Synopsys here in @nclengineering.bsky.social to give a seminar on their RTL Synthesis tool
June 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great to have Jason from Synopsys here in @nclengineering.bsky.social to give a seminar on their RTL Synthesis tool
It was wonderful to have a visit from Prof. Jong Mo Seo, Seoul National University to here in Newcastle. He gave a great talk on retinal prosthetics and we had lots of fun playing with our femtosecond super-laser!
February 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It was wonderful to have a visit from Prof. Jong Mo Seo, Seoul National University to here in Newcastle. He gave a great talk on retinal prosthetics and we had lots of fun playing with our femtosecond super-laser!
Great to see the Chinese New Year festivities today in Newcastle. It is an interesting image together with the Irish Centre. Both communities actually have historical overlap from the 1840s and co-located in various UK, US cities.
February 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great to see the Chinese New Year festivities today in Newcastle. It is an interesting image together with the Irish Centre. Both communities actually have historical overlap from the 1840s and co-located in various UK, US cities.
The Parkrun is one of the best pro-health institutions in the UK and it is FREE!!!. My local one in the Jesmond Dene is beautiful and the crowd is very supportive. They are all over the UK! www.parkrun.org.uk/events/
January 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Parkrun is one of the best pro-health institutions in the UK and it is FREE!!!. My local one in the Jesmond Dene is beautiful and the crowd is very supportive. They are all over the UK! www.parkrun.org.uk/events/