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We are delighted to annonce that we have been successful in our bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and the Built Environment: Resilience in a Changing World (FIBE2).The official launch took place on Monday 4 February at the London Stock Exchange and the announcement is on the EPSRC website:https://epsrc.ukri.org/newseve…

Ioanna Papanikolaou won 2 international awards at the 12th FIB International PhD-Symposium in Civil Engineering in Prague. The FIB is the International Federation for Structural Concrete and the bi-annual PhD symposium sees over 150 paper submissions. Ioanna presented her 1st year PhD work on graphene-reinforced cement composites for self-sensing i…

Blue Tap, a Cambridge-based social enterprise directed by FIBE 1st-year PhD student, Francesca O’Hanlon, has been  awarded the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £10,000 award in the social enterprise category. Blue Tap was founded in 2016 by Francesca O’Hanlon. The social enterprise uses 3D printing to design low-cost water purification technology…

FIBE-CDT Industry Partner event a huge success!This year's Industry Partner event was held off-site on 1st May at the Moller Centre. It was aptly titled Future Industry Partner Workshop as it was about the future of FIBE-CDT.Very well attended by high-profile CEOs and directors from multiple companies from the Engineering industry, the event was le…

Second year FIBE PhD student, Alexandra Clarà Saracho was shortlisted as one of 3 finalist of the 49th Cooling Prize Competition held in Manchester. Her research was one of the 12 submissions for the prize.   The Cooling Prize is held annually by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) to celebrate the life of Leonard Cooling who was chairman of…

Judging from the excitement and huge smiles on many of our young visitors' faces, FIBE-CDT's very first own Science Festival events on 17th March 2018 was a huge success! This popular family-fun event is run by the University of Cambridge on multiple university sites all over Cambridge and has attracted over 45,000 people in the past. It brings sci…

Between October 2017 to December 2017, PhD student Eftychia Dichorou was on an academic secondment to TUDelft, in the Netherlands. She joined the TU Delft Seismic Research group whose research is complementary to hers in Cambridge University.Whilst in Delft, Eftychia was based in the department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. She had the oppo…

Christiana Smyrilli, final year PhD student from Cohort 1, spent 2 and a half months for her secondment at D-lab at MIT, Boston.  D-Lab stands for Development through Discovery, Design and Dissemination and is a group that focuses on projects targeted at the development sector. D-Lab challenges talented students to use their math, science, engineer…

Hannah Baker’s conference presentation and academic secondment in Delft, The NetherlandsIn June 2017, Hannah Baker presented her research at the European Real Estate Society (ERES) Annual Conference in Delft, Netherlands. Her paper focused on the decision to demolish or adapt existing buildings on her case study in Cambridge. For this research, Han…

The annual FIBE Conference titled "Resilience in a Changing World" was a huge success!From the choice of the stunningly beautiful Victorian Gothic surroundings at the Old Divinity School at St John’s College to the meticulously planned talks and animated conversations in the various workshop groups, the entire day ran like well-oiled machinery, per…

The FIBE-organised Women in Engineering (WomEng) Outreach was a huge success! Over 40 girls of primary school age signed up for the GirlEng #AskAnEngineer Workshop to myth-bust the perceptions and stereotypes around STEM careers and explore the exciting opportunities that exist in the world of Engineering. FIBE-CDT,  with almost half of all student…

For thirty young “castaways” from the Sutton Trust Summer School it’s a practice in Engineering for Self Sufficiency. Under the tutelage of 3 resident Robinson Crusoes: FIBE students Bryn Pickering, Mark Allen and André Neto-Bradley, the Sutton Trust students were given a project to design a home for their family on one of 4 desert islands. The rem…

FIBE-CDT is delighted to be singled out as an example of a Centre for Doctoral Training on the EPSRC website:https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/casestudies/epsrc-centres-for-doctoral-training-building-skills-for-a-prosperous-nation/According to the website, FIBE is one of the Centres for Doctoral Training which  "...provide a supportive and excitin…

The FIBE-CDT Industry Day 2017 was a huge success with record attendances from many of FIBE’s partner companies and EPSRC. Included were many Cambridge University alumni who now have successful careers with these industry leaders which gave an insight into where FIBE students could be when they completed their PhD.The day kicked off with presentati…

Congratulations to Hannah Baker for winning first prize in the Management & Social Sciences category at the ABTA researcher awards in UCL, London. http://www.abtanet.org.uk/Awards/Detail/10/2017-ABTA-Doctoral-Researcher-AwardsThe Association of British Turkish Academics is the leading professional association for scholars in the U.K. and in Turkey …