Archive | 2017

Press release issued: 20 March 2017 The University of Bristol has today (Monday, 20 March) launched seven new research institutes reflecting the University’s strength and depth in key specialisms.  The Specialist Research Institutes (SRIs) encompass areas where the University is already internationally-leading and is looking to develop capacity. The seven new SRIs are: Bristol BioDesign Institute – […]

Press release issued: 27 March 2017 A professor of physics from the University of Bristol’s new Quantum Information Institute has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Cozzarelli Prize for a paper published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Sandu Popescu’s paper ‘Quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle and the nature of quantum correlations’ was awarded […]

Press release issued: 7 April 2017 Quantum scientists and engineers from across the world have been in the city this week for the fourth annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT).   Each day saw talks on a number of quantum technology themes. After an opening address from the Professor John Rarity, the Director of the University […]

Press release issued: 5 May 2017 Four University of Bristol academics have achieved the rare distinction of being elected Fellows of the world’s most eminent and oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, the Royal Society. Professor Sandu Popescu from the School of Physics, Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing from the School of Chemistry, Professor Tim Elliott from the School of Earth Sciences and Professor Stafford Lightman from the School of […]

Press release issued: 7 August 2017 A multidisciplinary team from the Bristol BioDesign Institute has come together to study the self-assembly of protein building into protein cages, leading to new research which has potential applications in nanotechnology and synthetic biology. The paper: Beyond icosahedral symmetry in packings of proteins in spherical shells, describes theoretical work and numerical simulations […]

Press release issued: 31 July 2017 Scientists at the University of Bristol have, for the first time, observed the formation of a crystal gel with particle-level resolution, allowing them to study the conditions by which these new materials form. The study showed that the mechanism of crystal growth follows the same strategies by which ice crystals […]