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Congratulations to Cohort 4 Rep Michalis Michael who won the The Dufton Silver Medal awarded by The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) for the research paper: Closed Cavity Façade, an innovative energy saving façade.https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244221080030In its simplest form, a Closed Cavity Façade (CCF) consists of a do…

Cohort 2's Alexandra Clarà  Saracho’s stellar career grows by leaps and bounds. When Alexandra finished her PhD in FIBE CDT in 2021, she was appointed a Research Fellow at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Barely 2 years after her PhD graduation, in January 2023, she has been conferred Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at the U…

Congratulations to Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho, a FIBE alumna from Cohort 2,  who has recently been awarded a Research Fellowship at King’s College, University of Cambridge, effective October 2021. Dr Clarà Saracho is an interdisciplinary scientist and geotechnical engineer active in the field of bio-mediated soil processes and sustainable geotechni…

FIBE alumnus Deryck Chan won the second prize in the Institution of Civil Engineer's Emerging Engineers award in October 2020, for presenting his doctoral research project on basement heave in over-consolidated clay. His paper on centrifuge and numerical modelling of basement heave earned him a spot in the international finals, where he gave a twen…

On behalf of the Centre of Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE CDT), cohort 5 would like to welcome you to our 5th annual conference. To round off five successful cohorts of FIBE1 CDT, the theme of this year's conference is taken from the CDT name; ‘Future Infrastructure and the Built Environment’. The conference …

In January 2020, I began a six-month research placement at the Alan Turing Institute in London, as part of the Alan Turing Institute Enrichment Scheme. The Enrichment scheme offers students currently enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university the opportunity to join the Alan Turing Institute for up to 12 months. Students continue their PhD…

The Centre for Geopolitics has been hosting a series of online panels, alongside a new, global “conversations” website to foster discussion between the academic community and practitioners about the many ways the world order will be changed by the coronavirus crisis. As part of this series, FIBE PhD student, Jennifer Ward George, was invited to spe…

Jason Pelekis, final year PhD student from Cohort 1, visited the University of California at Berkeley as a Visiting Researcher for six months. During his stay, he was part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where he worked closely with PEER experts. PEER is the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center which focuses on da…

In 2019, universities from across the world nominated students to attend the 2020 Global Young Scientists Summit. From these nominations, the National Research Foundation of Singapore selected around 300 delegates to engage in discussions on key areas of science with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Millenium Technology Prize and the Tu…

Francesca O’Hanlon, 3rd year FIBE CDT PhD student is also CEO of Blue Tap,  a technology company that creates products to improve access to high quality drinking water in low resource settings. Blue Tap was first created in 2013 while Francesca was doing an Engineers Without Borders UK project to find a more reliable way to chlorinate water in Mexi…

In January 2020, 3rd year PhD student Lucy Harris travelled  to Harbin, China for the 2020 SPHERIC (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Engineering and Research International Community) Workshop. She gave a presentation there on the topic of “MPM simulation of wave interaction with a porous vertical wall”, based on the paper she had written with the su…

PhD students from the Engineering Department win the ICE Environmental Engineering and Science Prize (Journal Prize for best paper in journal). Christiana and Sakthy, as lead authors, will receive their award at the ICE Awards Ceremony in October.Each year, ICE Publishing acknowledges the best work published in their journals – awarding work judged…

Congratulations to FIBE student Robert Rouse who has been awarded a prestigious Industrial Fellowship worth up to £80,000 by the Prince Albert’s Royal Commision. Robert is one of 9 of the UK’s most talented young scientists and engineers to be named in the awards. This award will allow Robert to develop and apply machine learning to predicting floo…

Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera, FIBE Cohort 2 PhD student, wins UK Prize for Young Professionals for the XXVI World Road Congress - Abu Dhabi 2019Cohort 2 PhD student Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera was recently awarded the UK Prize for Young Professionals for the XXVI World Road Congress - Abu Dhabi 2019 at the House of Commons in the Palace of W…

FIBE PhD student Sally O'Brien has every reason to feel elated. She was one of eighteen rowers and coxes from the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club (CUWBC) who raced Oxford University Women’s Boat Club in the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Sally raced in the 7-seater Blondie crew (the Cambridge reserve crew) against Osiris (the Oxford …