News in 2024
- Egg Challenge 7.0: Deggpool 17 December 2024 Ph.D. students aim for safe landings in 2024 Bristol Composites Institute Egg Challenge
- CoSEM CDT student receives GKN Aerospace prize 10 December 2024 PhD student Jula Schroeder has been awarded the GKN Aerospace prize for the ‘Best Taught Mark in the CoSEM CDT Taught Component'.
- Scientists’ ‘next-generation’ space materials blast off for tests on ISS 5 November 2024 A new generation of space materials left Earth this morning as they head to the International Space Station (ISS) to undergo testing in the brutal conditions of low Earth orbit.
- Bristol Composites Institute and National Composites Centre host 2024 annual conference 24 October 2024 On 24 October the Bristol Composites Institute welcomed over 150 guests to the 2024 BCI & NCC Annual Conference, titled "Driving innovation in composites"
- CoSEM CDT student attends ESA FAIR Space Radiation Summer School 27 September 2024 CoSEM CDT student Gokhan Sancak attended a space radiation summer school in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Bristol Composites Institute celebrates 2024 summer graduates 6 August 2024 Bristol Composites Institute celebrates its recent graduates.
- CoSEM CDT students visit Airbus 16 July 2024 The students were introduced to Airbus and AIRTeC, before enjoying a tour of the facilities.
- Bristol Composites Institute hosts 2024 Damage Workshop 4 July 2024 An invitation-only, two day workshop on Damage of Composites was held in Bristol, which included many internationally renowned academics.
- CDT alumnus carries on tradition of football tournament 27 June 2024 ACCIS CDT Alumnus Dr Michael Elkington continues football tournament tradition, where teams from the National Composites Centre and University of Bristol took part.
- CoSEM CDT hosts guest from NASA Langley 14 June 2024 The CoSEM CDT welcomed Dr Chauncey Wu from NASA Langley to deliver a series of seminars.
- CoSEM CDT student has work published in Scientific Reports 4 June 2024 Third year CoSEM CDT student Stefania Akromah has had research published in Scientific Reports.
- CoSEM CDT hosts outreach day for local sixth-form pupils 3 June 2024 On 20 May, the CoSEM CDT hosted a STEM Outreach Day for a group of 40 Sixth-Form pupils from Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School in Gloucestershire. There were four activities that ran throughout the day, highlighting the exciting opportunities in composites engineering.
- International workshop on mode I toughness 30 May 2024 Professors Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composites Institute, Yentl Swolfs of KU Leuven and Federico Paris of the University of Seville hosted an online workshop on Composites Fracture on 14th May.
- Two CoSEM CDT students selected for new Early Career Enterprise Fellowship (ECEF) scheme 28 May 2024 James Uzzell and James Griffith, from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing (CoSEM CDT), have been named in Bristol’s first cohort of Early Career Enterprise Fellowships (ECEF).
- CoSEM CDT student's research published in international journal 3 May 2024 PhD student Jan Maurycy Uszko has had his research published in gold open access journal Nanoscale Advances.
- BCI Postgraduate Research Symposium 2024 26 March 2024 Bristol Composites Institute (BCI) welcomed over 100 delegates from academia and industry to the University of Bristol for its annual Postgraduate Research Symposium.
- CoSEM CDT student awarded Hexcel project prize 27 February 2024 PhD student Jan Maurycy Uszko has been awarded the Hexcel prize for his 3-month research project.
- Bristol Composites Institute celebrates its February 2024 graduates 21 February 2024 The Bristol Composites Institute applauds the success of all its recent graduates.
- CoSEM CDT and National Institute of Aerospace renew Memorandum of Understanding 14 February 2024 The Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing (CoSEM CDT) and National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) have renewed their commitment to collaborate on advanced composite research and education.
- ACCIS CDT alumnus' work published in prestigious interdisciplinary journal 6 February 2024 Dr. Hernaldo Mendoza Nava has had his PhD research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- CoSEM CDT student receives prize from GKN Aerospace 3 January 2024 PhD student Jacopo Lavazza has been awarded the GKN Aerospace prize for the ‘Best Taught Mark in the CoSEM CDT Taught Component'.
