The Golden State Warriors basketball team will open a new high-tech sports and entertainment complex in San Francisco in 2018, containting Li-Fi technology that was developed by Professor Harald Haas.
Applications for the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science will open on 2nd February 2015. Four outstanding female post-doctoral scientists in the UK or Ireland will be granted a fellowship worth £15,000[1] each.
Research into drug discovery and healthcare will be accelerated with a multi-million pound investment.
Scientists are to receive £11.4 million over five years for a new centre to advance research in synthetic biology – the design of biological organisms with new or improved functions.
On Wednesday 7th January, the annual meeting of the Tectonic Studies Group comes to Edinburgh this year and will include a special "Question Time" session to debate geological aspects of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Prof. Mike Davies was elevated to the position of Fellow of the Institution of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (FIEEE), the leading international organisation in the field, for contributions to sparse representations in signal processing and compressed sensing.
Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh welcome the outstanding results of REF2014 for the Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering (ERPE). 94% of our overall research activity is world-leading or internationally excellent.
Dr Pedro J Sáenz (supervised by Dr Prashant Valluri and Professor Khellil Sefiane) of the Institute for Materials and Processes within the School of Engineering, has won the ARCHER Image Competition The simulation work in the Complex Fluids and Multiphase Flows Group is also supported by the
The largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) research partnership in the UK has grown even bigger as the University of Strathclyde joins the group, bringing world-leading expertise in areas such as carbon dioxide (CO2) transport and environmental impact analysis.
