Innovation training will be at the heart of the i4nano CDT, giving high-calibre postgraduate engineers, physicists, chemists and materials scientists a broader experience than currently possible in graduate research.
- Dr Karishma Jain
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Integrated Functional Nano (i4nano), based in the Maxwell Centre, will encourage interdisciplinary research and training in nano across the Departments of Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering and others.
The Centre will build on the world-leading work of the current NanoDTC programme. A total of 40 new studentships have been created and will be enhanced by pledges of more than 20 studentships from industry and other partners, making this a total of 60 studentships in the new i4nano Centre.
Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Director of the i4nano CDT, said: “A key overarching theme in this CDT is the understanding and control of the nano-interfaces connecting complex architectures, which is essential for going beyond simple model systems, and key to major advances in emerging scientific grand challenges across vital areas of Energy, Health, Manufacturing (particularly considering sustainability), ICT/Internet of things, and Quantum.”
Professor Stephan Hofmann, Co-Director of the i4nano CDT from the Department of Engineering, said: “A distinctly ambitious goal in this next phase of the CDT will focus on heterogeneous materials integration, exploiting new in-operando probing to capture materials behaviour at actual industrially relevant process/operation conditions, underpinning up-scaling and system integration strategies.”
Senior Teaching Associate Dr Karishma Jain said innovation training will be at the heart of the i4nano CDT, giving high-calibre postgraduate engineers, physicists, chemists and materials scientists a broader experience than currently possible in graduate research. Dr Jain added that it will also provide them with the knowledge and tools to turn inventions into robust and economically productive innovations that will help build the next generation of successful technology businesses in the Cambridge Ecosystem and beyond.
A full list of partners is available to view here.
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering