News
- 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