The energy researcher who wants to build better to consume less
15 September 2021Against a global backdrop of rising energy demands and finite resources, Rihab Khalid set out to understand how buildings can become more energy efficient. As...
Four Cambridge researchers recognised in the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes
09 September 2021Four University of Cambridge researchers – Professors Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman, Suchitra Sebastian and Jack Thorne – have been recognised by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation...
The virologist helping us to stay one step ahead of infectious diseases
10 August 2021An established virologist specialising in the field of HIV drug-resistance, Ravi Gupta pivoted his expertise to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last 18 months...
Cambridge researcher named as Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellow
30 July 2021Five internationally-recognised researchers, including Cambridge’s Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, have been appointed as the first Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows to conduct work on artificial intelligence’s...
Cambridge researcher named one of Top 50 Women in Engineering
23 June 2021Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan from Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has been named one of the top 50 Women in Engineering 2021 by the...
Professor Clare Grey awarded €1 million Körber Prize
22 June 2021The Körber European Science Prize 2021, worth one million euros, is to be awarded to University of Cambridge chemist Professor Clare Grey, one of the...
The futurist who'd like the future to slow down - just a little
10 June 2021The problem with being a futurist, says Richard Watson, is that change is happening a lot faster and a lot crazier these days. We talk...
The conservationist helping us to make better decisions
04 June 2021Bill Sutherland has started a revolution in conservation. Put simply he’d “like us to stop doing the things that we know don't work and do...
Cambridge researchers awarded the Millennium Technology Prize
18 May 2021British duo Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman have been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.
Humans who search
12 March 2021Stefanie Reichelt had long felt there was a disconnect between the public’s perception of scientists and reality. Armed with only a camera and a chair,...
