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Academics at the University of Edinburgh are joining forces with research scientists from biopharmaceutical company Celgene to develop a new technology that could help to improve cancer treatment.
Nikolai Gerasimov, a postgraduate researcher in the School’s BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, has won a Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (WCSIM) research grant for an innovative advance in fire performance testing.
In early May, the School invited two speakers from the US to run a whole-day intensive careers event for postdoctoral researchers.
The School’s Dr Antonis Giannopoulos is part of an international team of scientists that have secured support from the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) to advance the search for water on Mars.
Software developed by the School’s Dr Antonis Giannopoulos and Northumbria University’s Dr Craig Warren has been selected by Google to take part in its prestigious Summer of Code mentoring programme. The pair's project is one of 207 worldwide handpicked by Google.
Dr Frédéric Bosché, Senior Lecturer in the School's Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, has been elected President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC).
School of Engineering researchers have devised a fabric dressing which could improve wound recovery for patients suffering from burns or skin grafts.
A collaboration between the School of Engineering, University spin-out ENIAN and the Data Lab will revolutionise the way renewables projects predict grid connection costs.
The School of Engineering is to play a major role in a new centre supporting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland to develop and manufacture innovative medical devices.
Dr Camilla Thomson, the School’s Chancellor’s Fellow in Energy, and alumna Clare Lavelle, who is Head of Energy Consultancy at Arup, have been named in the Top 50 Women in Engineering in the UK by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).
Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi has worked with scientists at the University of Southampton to develop a flexible underwater robot which mimics the quick, efficient movements of squid and jellyfish - nature’s most efficient swimmers.
A team of engineering researchers led by Dr Aristides Kiprakis have conducted a study that challenges the rules which currently govern the layout of tidal turbines.