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 […]
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Four Bristol scientists elected as new Fellows of the Royal Society
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 […]
John Russo awarded ERC Starting Grant 2017
We are delighted to announce that John Russo has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. These highly competitive grants enable very talented researchers at an early stage of their career to establish a research team and pursue frontier research of their choice. The title of the grant is “Soft Water: […]
Study of protein cages strengthens Bristol’s position at forefront of synthetic biology
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 […]
Formation of porous crystals observed for the first time
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 […]
