In the Aegis Professor undergraduate competition, Almudena and Tom were part of a team that looked at ways to address the growing gap between the supply and demand of copper. Both teams were awarded an experience day visit to the STFC Research and Innovation Campus at Harwell, where the NQCC is based. The students were hosted by the Director of the NQCC, Aegis Professor Michael Cuthbert.

Professor Cuthbert gave the students a tour of the campus, including the NQCC Lab, the Diamond Light Source - the UK’s national synchrotron, which works like a giant microscope - and the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source, which enables the study of materials at the atomic level.