News in 2021
- Huawei grant to Programming Languages group 22 December 2021 The Bristol Programming Languages group have been awarded funding to study modern, type-safe systems programming
- Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Medal Awarded to Aerospace Engineering Staff 6 December 2021 Staff in the Dept of Aerospace Engineering are part of an Airbus-led team that has been awarded a Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Medal for the development of the AlbatrossONE Semi Aeroelastic Hinge Scaled Flying Demonstrator.
- New robotics research centre will transform the relationship between people and technology in UK manufacturing 3 December 2021 A new national robotics research centre will receive a share of £25m to improve collaborative technology and help businesses unlock the full potential of automated industrial manufacturing.
- Annual ACCIS & CoSEM CDT student hackathon 25 November 2021
- Composites for Future Resilience – Bristol Composites Institute annual conference 11 November 2021 The 14th annual Bristol Composites Institute conference was held virtually on 9 November 2021. Sustainability was one of the key themes at this year's conference that attracted over 250 attendees from six continents.
- Bristol CNU at leading machine learning conference 3 November 2021 Bristol CNU researchers had two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2021
- IDC Showcase event success 1 November 2021 The Industrial Doctorate Centre (IDC) in Composites Manufacture held its Showcase event on Tuesday 26 October.
- Third international workshop on measuring strength 14 October 2021 Professor Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composites Institute, together with Professor Yentl Swolfs from KU Leuven and Professor Federico Paris from the University of Seville, organised a successful online workshop on UD Compression Strength on 5 October.
- Bristol behind world’s massive egocentric dataset 14 October 2021 Professor Dima Damen and her group in computer vision are part of an international consortium of 13 universities in partnership with Facebook AI that has built the world’s most diverse egocentric dataset - officially released 14th October.
- New Hot Robotics facility to further Nuclear Research 5 October 2021 A new University of Bristol facility at Fenswood Farm, part of the National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics (NNUF-HR) officially opens next week. There are 4 partners including Bristol (UK Atomic Energy Authority, National Nuclear Laboratory and The University of Manchester), each offering equipment and test spaces.
- Completion of H2020 TeamPlay project 5 October 2021 Prof Kerstin Eder's team has just completed the final review of the TeamPlay project, which was funded by Horizon 2020.
- Seven Turing Fellowships awarded to Bristol Engineering 30 September 2021
- New leadership for the Bristol Composites Institute 14 September 2021 Professor Michael Wisnom will step down from his role as Director of the Bristol Composites Institute in September 2021. The Institute welcomes new co-directors, Professor Ole Thomsen and Professor Stephen Hallett.
- Distinguished paper award at ICFP 2021 13 September 2021 Bristol researcher wins award for work on concurrent programming
- Successful Seminar on Sustainable Composite Materials for Wind Turbine Blades 9 September 2021 Bristol Composites Institute and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) hosted a virtual research seminar on Sustainable Composite Materials for Wind Turbine Blades on 6 September 2021. The event was a success, with 200 attendees across six continents.
- Bristol’s most promising scientists awarded £4.5M UK Government funding to bring pioneering ideas to market 8 September 2021 Promising future science and research leaders at the University of Bristol will benefit from a £4.5 million cash boost to convert their innovative ideas to transformational products and services, the Science Minister Amanda Solloway announced today.
- Engineering Design gains top results in latest National Student Survey 23 August 2021
- Riccardo Manno from Bristol Composites Institute wins EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account funding 12 August 2021 Riccardo Manno, a final year PhD student from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), has been awarded a £40,000 Impact Acceleration Account grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
- Work by Bristol Composites Institute researchers heads to the International Space Station 10 August 2021 Materials developed by Bristol Composites Institute researchers and PhD students will be sent to the International Space Station.
- Dr Bassam Elsaied from Bristol Composites Institute receives EPSRC New Investigator Award 5 August 2021 Dr Bassam Elsaied, Vice Chancellor's Fellow in the University's Department of Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Bristol Composites Institute, has been awarded a £330,000 New Investigator Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
- ACCIS CDT student wins award at the 48th World Polymer Congress 1 July 2021 Konstantina Kanari, a final year PhD student from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), won the "Outstanding Online Short Talk Award" at the MACRO 2020+ World Polymer Congress in May
- Mayra Rivera Lopez from Bristol Composites Institute wins Three Minute Thesis People's Choice Award 24 June 2021 Mayra Rivera Lopez, a final-year PhD student from the Bristol Composites Institute, won the People’s Choice Award at the University of Bristol’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition final.
- Three new Visiting Professors to help lead the case for advanced nuclear and energy decarbonisation 14 June 2021 The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome three leading figures from the nuclear sector as Visiting Professors, enhancing its standing as a leading nuclear research University.
- Researchers from Bristol Composites Institute win the best poster prize at CompTest 2021 26 May 2021 The winning presentation by Bristol Composites Institute team was titled "Determining the Source of the Thermoelastic Response of Laminated FRP Composite Materials Using DIC".
- Bristol Composites Institute Postgraduate Research and Training Showcase 30 April 2021 The Bristol Composites Institute Postgraduate Research and Training Showcase was held online on Tuesday 13 April.
- Bristol Cyber Security Group awarded funding to tackle issues concerning cybersecurity at the edge of the internet 29 April 2021 The Internet of Things is expected to play a major part in the ongoing transition of energy systems. With the possibility of new actors, tariffs, appliances and relationships, IoT could disrupt the energy market – whether for the better or for worse.
- Successful online workshop on Tensile Strength 22 April 2021 Professor Michael Wisnom, Director of the Bristol Composites Institute, together with Professor Yentl Swolfs from KU Leuven and Professor Federico Paris from the University of Seville, organised a successful online workshop on Tensile Strength on 23 March.
- £2M ERC grant awarded to Professor Fabrizio Scarpa from the Bristol Composites Institute 21 April 2021 A grant of more than two million pounds has been awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to an international research project, led by the University of Bristol, which will use natural plant fibres, bacteria, enzymes and spider silk to create materials that mimic how the human brain works.
- Successful ACM5 Symposium on Automated Composites Manufacturing 21 April 2021 The Bristol Composites Institute and National Composites Centre (NCC) recently hosted a special programme of on-line keynote presentations and a panel discussion to explore the hot topics in advanced automated composites manufacturing. This was the first time the biennial ACM symposium was held as a virtual event.
- Inaugural ACCIS & CoSEM CDT student hackathon 14 April 2021
- Bristol Composites Institute researchers pitch business idea at YES20 22 March 2021
- ACCIS CDT student receives 2020 Victrex best paper prize 29 January 2021 Ph.D. student Chris Hunt has been awarded the 2020 Victrex prize for the ‘Best Journal Paper for the Development of Composite Materials’.
- Professor Stephen Eichhorn awarded £1.5M EPSRC Fellowship with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion focus 19 January 2021 Professor Stephen Eichhorn from the Bristol Composites Institute and University of Bristol’s Department of Aerospace Engineering has been awarded a £1.5M Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, recognising outstanding research and leadership.
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