News
- 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.
- CoSEM CDT students inspire the public at FUTURES 2020 festival 7 December 2020 CoSEM CDT students host a virtual exhibition at the FUTURES 2020 ‘Curiosity Carousel’ researchers’ fair