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New ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Cavendish researcher to develop microscopy technique for quantum simulators

Cavendish Laboratory researcher, Professor Ulrich Schneider, is one of the winners of the European Research Council’s (ERC) latest round of Consolidator Grants, backed with some €632 million to tackle big...

17 March 2022

Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council funding

Five University of Cambridge researchers have been awarded Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council, the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research.

17 March 2022

New £2.67 million investment to keep Cambridge at the forefront of particle physics research

The Cavendish’s High Energy Physics group in the University of Cambridge is to receive £2.67 million funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The group is one of...

9 March 2022

Drug-screening spin-out secures new funding

A University of Cambridge spin-out company from the Cavendish Laboratory, combines materials engineering and cell biology to help biopharma companies make better medicines, faster. It announced today that it has closed a £2.14 million seed funding round.

23 February 2022

Two-dimensional material could store quantum information at room temperature

Researchers have identified a two-dimensional material that could be used to store quantum information at room temperature.

11 February 2022

Mutating Quantum Particles Set in Motion

In the world of fundamental particles, you are either a fermion or a boson but a new study from the University of Cambridge shows, for the first time, that one...

8 February 2022

Historic buildings could use solar panels to protect from rising energy costs

Installing solar panels could help historic buildings beat the rising costs of energy, according to a new study.

3 February 2022

Theorising the physical mechanism of ferroelectricity in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett and Benjamin Remez are two PhD students in the Theory of Condensed Matter group. Devising their project completely on their own, they have developed the first theoretical description...

24 January 2022