Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge

Event - IMPROVING EMISSIONS MODELING FOR FUTURE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS 🧍  Michael Weinold, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Switzerland 📅 17 Oct 2024, 1:30pm 📍 West 1, West Hub, JJ Thomson Avenue Aviation is presently responsible for 2-3% of global carbon emissions. The majority of these comes from long-distance routes, on which only liquid fuels are viable due to their high energy density. Therefore, more energy efficient aircraft powered by non-fossil fuels are currently under development. Michael Weinold is working on models to improve the accuracy and precision of life-cycle assessment forecasts of future air transport systems. He will present recent progress in dis-aggregating aircraft energy efficiency, limits for future efficiency and hybrid approaches to life-cycle assessment of non-fossil fuels. Timings 1:30 - 2:30pm  Seminar 2:30 - 3:00pm  Informal conversations The Energy IRC is pleased to be jointly hosting this seminar with Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG).   The CEENRG hosts weekly seminars with a focus in law, policy and governance of climate change, environment and energy - Sergey Kolesnikov ALL are welcome! #energy #research #aviation LINK - https://lnkd.in/ep6xhdFU

Next week’s Innovate Cambridge Summit 2024 brings together over 400 entrepreneurs, decision makers and key opinion leaders in the region and beyond who have been working together on the innovation strategy for Cambridge and ensure that Cambridge remains the leading innovation ecosystem in Europe.    The Summit opens with reflections on the activities and progress made over the last 12 months to realise this ambition.  Speakers for session 1: * Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director, Innovate Cambridge * Diarmuid O'Brien, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Cambridge * Michael Anstey, Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital The 2024 Summit is sponsored by AstraZeneca, Taylor Wessing, Apollo Therapeutics, Railpen and BioMed Realty. www.innovatecambridge.com Innovate Cambridge Cambridge Innovation Capital University of Cambridge #InnovateCambridge #InnovationVision #CambridgeEcosystem

The countdown is on to the Innovate Cambridge summit 2024. Follow us @ Innovate Cambridge to get a preview of the sessions and what we're going to announce. Some really exciting content coming up..... Clare Sutcliffe MBE Diarmuid O'Brien Andy Neely Tabitha Goldstaub Michael Anstey Yvonne Barnett Michael Barrett Robert Pollock Rob Bridge Kristin Anne Rutter

Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS, Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory - Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Founding Director of the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, has been recognised as one of 2024 IOP Award winners #IOPAwards24. Richard "wins the Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture for pioneering and enduring work on the fundamental electronic properties of molecular semiconductors and in their engineering development." The Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture recognises groundbreaking physicists. It is the most prestigious award of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world. It is with great pride that we see Richard and his group's work recognised for transformative impact in the understanding and engineering of the electronic properties of molecular semiconductors over the years. Commenting on his award, Sir Richard said: “I am immensely proud of this award and the recognition of our work. Our Cambridge group helped set the framework for the field of molecular semiconductors, showing new ways to improve how these materials can separate charges and emit light. But we are not done just yet! We're currently working on molecular semiconductors that have overall electron spin. We can set this spin to raise LED efficiency, and very surprisingly, to control the colour of emitted light." #semiconductors #solarcelltechnology #OLED #LED #physics #innovation #collaboration https://lnkd.in/ecZ6FxQj

We are delighted to announce that the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge has joined a three-year collaboration with the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) and multiple Cambridge partners, to engineer a new generation of neuro-technologies designed to treat depression, dementia, chronic pain, epilepsy and injuries to the nervous system. Neurological and mental health disorders will affect four in every five people in their lifetimes, and present a greater overall health burden than cancer and cardiovascular disease combined. Neuro-technology – where technology is used to interact with the nervous system - has the potential to deliver revolutionary new treatments for these disorders, in much the same way that heart pacemakers, cochlear implants and spinal implants have transformed medicine in recent decades. These technologies also have the potential to treat autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and type-1 diabetes. Cambridge’s partnership with ARIA will create a home for original thinkers who are struggling to find the funding, space and mentoring needed to stress-test their radical ideas. It will scour the UK for innovators from any background with a highly ambitious concept for a technology that could transform brain health. The very best will be offered the resources to test and then scale up their idea at pace, so it can be brought to patients across the world quickly and affordably.   Our vision is to unlock more treatments with fewer side-effects, creating a world where personalised brain health care is available to everyone. The science of building technology small enough, precise enough and cheap enough to make a global impact requires an environment where the very best minds from across the UK can collaborate, dream up ambitious ideas and test them without fear of failure. The new partnership extends beyond academia, it is open to innovators from all backgrounds and locations. We want everyone to be able to access our expertise and resources so that they can turn their concepts into mass produced, affordable and clinic-ready technologies to benefit millions of people suffering around the world. We will be delivering the Blue Sky phase, which opens the doors of the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Babraham Research Campus to welcome Fellows and a wider ecosystem of NeuroTech innovators. With us, the very best minds will test their ‘Blue Sky’ proof-of-concept ideas through dedicated funding for access to leading facilities and mentorship. Our partners Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) Milner Therapeutics Institute Departments of Engineering and Psychiatry and Cambridge Neuroscience Babraham Research Campus University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) Cambridge Network Vellos (image credits: Bioelectronics Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

A major consortium from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), the UK Government’s new research funding agency. As one of ARIA’s new Activation Partners in the agency’s Scalable Neural Interfaces opportunity space, this collaboration aims to rocket-boost progress on a new generation of neuro-technologies designed to treat conditions such as depression, dementia, chronic pain, epilepsy and injuries to the nervous system.   Cambridge’s partnership with ARIA will create a home for original thinkers who are struggling to find the funding, space and mentoring needed to stress-test their radical ideas. It will scour the UK for innovators from any background with a highly ambitious concept for a technology that could transform brain health. The very best will be offered the resources to test and then scale up their idea at pace, so it can be brought to patients across the world quickly and affordably. Original thinking is in the DNA of both ARIA and Cambridge, so this partnership will consider supporting any precise neuro-technology with the potential to solve a global health problem. It could be in the form of electronic brain implants that reset abnormal brain activity or help deliver targeted drugs more effectively, brain-computer interfaces that control prosthetic limbs, new gene therapies, or cutting-edge technologies that train the patient’s own cells to fight disease. We are really looking forward to welcoming amazing innovators with exciting ideas in neuro-technology to the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, where they will be able to access mentorship from our best medical, scientific and business experts, as well as dedicated funding, facilitating rapid testing of #BlueSky #proofofconcept in Cambridge. The coming three years will be fantastic! Cambridge University Health Partners Milner Therapeutics Institute Babraham Research Campus Cambridge Network Vellos Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) University of Cambridge (Cambridge Neuroscience, Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Psychiatry).

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The Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge is proud to be the home of the newly established SAS Advanced Analytics Hub. As our Director Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA said, “We are excited to interface Cambridge’s world-class research and innovation with SAS’ leading expertise in advanced analytics and AI forming a partnership for societal good."