This will not be conventional research or ‘business as usual’, but a major effort to go beyond the boundaries of traditional physical science concepts
- Richard Friend
The centre will build on the innovative activity currently supported by the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, where the focus has been on truly original, risk-taking science since its inception in March 2011, emphasising fundamental physics research relevant to areas such as renewable energy – including photovoltaics and electrical storage.
The new facilities will see research scientists from industry occupying laboratory and desk space alongside the Cambridge research groups, with the aim of engendering a two-way flow of ideas and exposing the best early career researchers in academe and industry to scientific problem-solving that relates directly to industrial need.
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Image: Architect’s impression of the new Maxwell Centre for physical science research, due to open in summer 2015.
Credit: BPD Architects
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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