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Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
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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✅

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#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.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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On #NationalEngineeringDay, flick through a recent edition of our #Engineering news mag

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Pictured is Chris Tagnon, a recent @ifmcambridge.bsky.social grad awarded a Masters in Motorsport scholarship from
@raeng.org.uk & Sir Lewis Hamilton’s @mission44.bsky.social
Front cover of the Department's Engineering News magazine featuring a head and shoulders shot of Chris Tagnon, with a neutral expression
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Alumni Nathan Jackrazi & @amyrochford.bsky.social have won the 2025 @kingscollege.bsky.social #Entrepreneurship Prize with their start-up Axo Neurotech 🎉

Third prize went to MPhil student Chris Tagnon, co-founder of CAST Energy 🥉

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Head and shoulders shots of Nathan, Chris and Amy
October 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Alumnus Michael Korn has launched BLUE GARAGE an "Applied Commercialisation Lab”, part lab, part community, part launchpad, designed to help early-stage companies move from working prototypes to scalable, investable products.
@ifmcambridge.bsky.social
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October 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A study published in The Lancet Global Health has revealed stark global inequalities in survival after emergency abdominal surgery for traumatic injuries.

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September 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Swami Swaminathan on being elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession.

@robinsoncollege.bsky.social

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September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Hugh Thomas has won the John Winbolt Prize for his paper, 'Can sharing car trips deliver meaningful emissions savings? The case of Great Britain' published in the journal Applied Energy.

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September 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Dept spin-out to develop wearable #etextile tech for early detection of heart defects
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"Polytecks tech records electrical heart signals but also achieves higher spatial resolution than a conventional ECG" - founder Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano @cambridge-ee.bsky.social
Ruben is seen holding and demonstrating one of his prototype devices in a lab setting. The image also shows the company logo and an illustration of how the device fits to a human arm within a wearable strap
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Alumni profile: Lane Painter's mission to Mars
How does someone with a degree in economics end up at the heart of space innovation?
@darwincollegecam.bsky.social
@ifmcambridge.bsky.social
@yourscambridge.bsky.social

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September 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Patrick Carter-Cortez & Maximilian Kraus attended Nuclear Futures: Shaping Dialogue in a Changing World conference, both won prizes for Best Abstract in Category

Nuclear education opportunities - Nuclear Energy MPhil

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September 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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PhD student Qi Wang wins prizes for advances in superconducting Trapped Field Magnets with applications for clean energy & compact technologies, high-efficiency motors, magnetic bearings, flywheels for energy storage & next-generation MRI systems

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PhD student Qi Wang
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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CamGraPhIC, @cam.ac.uk spin-out company, raises €25m in new funding to improve #AI energy efficiency & bandwidth

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Co-founded by Prof Andrea Ferrari (R), Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, & Dr Marco Romagnoli (L) of CNIT in Italy

📸 credit: CamGraPhIC
CamGraPhIC co-founders Dr Marco Romagnoli and Professor Andrea Ferrari can be seen standing in front of a wall with the CamGraPhIC logo on it
September 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🆕 A newly established Cambridge fund set up to honour the memory of former Head of the Dept Professor Arthur Shercliff👇

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🏆 18 of our #undergrads awarded Arthur Shercliff Prizes

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August 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Today we celebrate #INWED25 🎉 @cam.ac.uk

Dr Poppy Oldroyd
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Abbie Schipper @gatescambridge.bsky.social
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Prof Giulia Viggiani – 1st woman to lead our Civil #Engineering Division
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June 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Our cover star for this edition of our Dept mag is Chris Tagnon, the 1st Cambridge Uni student to be awarded a Masters in #Motorsport #scholarship from @raeng.org.uk & @mission44.bsky.social (Sir Lewis Hamilton’s charitable foundation)

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Front cover of the spring 2025 edition of the Department of Engineering magazine. Alongside four headings for news featured inside is a head and shoulders image of Chris Tagnon, the first University of Cambridge student to be awarded a Masters in Motorsport scholarship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Mission 44 (Sir Lewis Hamilton’s charitable foundation). He is wearing a blue jumper and standing with his arms behind his back against a dark metallic-looking background. His expression is neutral.
May 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge: Blooming Numbers exhibit is inspired by mathematical principles found in nature – in this case the Fibonacci sequence – a mathematical pattern that also fascinated famous
@uniofcam.bsky.social alums Charles Darwin and Alan Turing
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An illustration of the exhibit design by Melanie Sadler. It shows the Fibonacci spiral wall, plants, a beehive, viewing stations.
March 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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On #WorldEngineeringDay why not have a flick through the latest copy of our Department magazine ⤵️

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Packed full of #engineering news and views from our @uniofcam.bsky.social community 🫶

#WED2025
March 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Thomas Glenday, Head of Design & Technical Services, brought a historic cricket bowling machine back to life

🏏The contraption – created by Dr John Venn (Venn diagrams) – bowled out players from the Australian cricket team during a visit to Cambridge 100+ years ago

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February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Professor Daping Chu has been elected to
@optica.org's 2025 class of Fellows. Daping is being honoured specifically “For seminal contributions to display devices and broader impact on industrial applications.”👏💫

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Professor Daping Chu
February 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New paper tackles one of the most pressing challenges in neurotechnology today: how to ensure ground breaking developments are shaped not just by researchers, but also by the people whose lives they will impact most.

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UK Symposium on Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology celebrated in September 2024 in Nottingham where the PPI in Neurotechnology initiative was presented to an audience of people with lived experiences, researchers, and industrial and funding bodies.
February 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Here they talk us through:

⛵️The role #engineering played in the success of the #AC75 class – a #yacht that’s designed to fly

⛵️ Fluid mechanics for yacht design

⛵️ Lifting the America's Cup & being a team player

⛵️ The @uniofcam.bsky.social experience

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#NewZealand
Alumni Simon Corkery and Ignacio Andreu Angulo life the America's Cup
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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New biological graft research to improve dialysis treatment.

The Department receives one of the two 2024 BHF Translational Awards from the British Heart Foundation.

@thebhf.bsky.social

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Professor Athina Markaki
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Emma Houiellebecq, PhD student & @gatescambridge.bsky.social Scholar, has been praised for her broad thinking on resilience & her on-the-ground experience in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions ⤵️

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Emma is a winner of the Gates Cambridge Impact Prize 2025 🏆
A head and shoulders shot of Emma Houiellebecq against a grey background. Emma is wearing a smart blazer over a v-necked top and a gold necklace in the form of a downward arrow pattern.
January 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The Cambridge iGEM team received a Gold Medal at iGEM2024 Synthetic Biology competition finals for their project ‘MaGenTa’ developing tools for magnetogenetics an approach using magnetic fields to remotely & precisely control gene activation
@engbioirc.bsky.social

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January 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM