News

Sarah Bohndiek in the news

10 February 2016

The newspaper Cambridge News has interviewed Sarah and her collaborator in the project Rebecca Fitzgerald about the recent launch of the Cambridge Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme. Read the interview here

Karolis Misiunas makes Forbes' '30 under 30' Europe list

22 January 2016

Karolis Misiunas has been named among the 30 most influential Europeans under 30 by Forbes Magazine in a category of "Science and Health Care". He is currently undertaking a PhD in Dr Ulrich Keyser's laboratory, where he studies Brownian motion in small channels. He specifically examines what happened to these interactions...

JRF awarded to Dr. Silvia Hernandez-Ainsa

26 October 2015

Congratulations to Dr. Silvia Hernandez-Ainsa who has been recently awarded with a Junior Research Fellowship from Wolfson College.

Honorary Degree and media appearances for Athene Donald

19 October 2015

Athene Donald received an Honorary DSC from the University of Manchester last week ( www.manchester.ac.uk ). She has been rather visible in the media in recent weeks, including appearances on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions discussing her (classical) musical loves and the impact it has had on her life( www.bbc.co.uk )...

BSS Physics at Work team: congratulations again!

29 September 2015

Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved in the BSS Physics at Work team(s), particularly those responsible for the "soft matter" hands-on activity in the Edwards room, coordinated by Dr Lorenzo di Michele, which has been voted the best by the students (confirming a very strong run in previous years! I think we are...

Remembering Sam Edwards

1 June 2015

We are greatly saddened to learn that Professor Sir Sam Edwards has passed away aged 87. Sir Sam, a member of BSS for many years, was a leading physicist and one of the founding fathers of soft matter physics. We fondly remember his kindness, generosity, wit and wisdom. Athene has written an article in the Guardian and...

The Science of Glass

26 May 2015

Athene is on the panel that will be discussing the The Science of Glass on Melvin Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 , first broadcast this Thursday at 9am.

Postdoc Position Available: Developing Artificial Nanopores Based on Metal-Organic Complexes (Fixed Term)

11 March 2015

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance. The group of Dr Ulrich Keyser, as part of the Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) Sector of the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, invite applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate to work on characterising novel...

Physics of Microorganisms meeting

19 January 2015

The IoP will host a one day meeting on the Physics of Microorganisms on the 23rd of March 2015. Lots of great speakers, including Eric Lauga from DAMTP and BSS's own Otti Croze . The poster abstract deadline has been extended to Wednesday 4th of February. We hope to see you there!

Nature Communciations paper on DNA-Lipid phases

9 January 2015

Volume and porosity thermal regulation in lipid mesophases by coupling mobile ligands to soft membranes Lucia Parolini, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Jurij Kotar, Erika Eiser, Pietro Cicuta, and Lorenzo Di Michele Nature Communications 6 :5948 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6948