Our recent study Scientific Reports with lead authors Brian Graves, Tyler Johnson and Robert Nishida has shown that marijuana smoke is strikingly similar to tobacco smoke with similar quantities of solid particles, tar and carcinogens. Surprisingly few studies have examined the similarities between the two.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63120-6

Molly Haugen passed her drone (UAV) training and becomes the first female licensed pilot at Cambridge University. She will be using this work to measure air quality and shipping emissions in association with the Boies and Mastorakos groups for a project funded by the Cambridge-Singapore project, CARES . Way to go Molly!

Congratulations to Robert Nishida for winning the 2019 doctoral thesis prize from the UK Aerosol Society for his dissertation on “Measuring aerosol nanoparticles by ultraviolet photoionisation”.

Making progress towards a materials revolution

A small consultancy agreement facilitated by Cambridge Enterprise in 2012 led to some surprising results – and a major project that could prove world-changing.

Making progress towards a materials revolution

Integrated Research Observation System for Clean Air (OSCA) is a project funded by Natural Environment Research Council working in conjunction with international organizations on measuring particle emissions from brake and tyre-wear. This specific role will create a searchable database of brake and tyre wear emissions by chemical and morphological structure from laboratory generated and publicly available data. Given the emerging large focus on brake and tyre wear this role will coordinate efforts with other leading academic, government and industrial groups to assemble the database.

The projects specific objectives are to:-

• Assemble data from current brake and tyre-wear emissions studies.
• Develop links with partnering organizations to collect and analyse existing datasets.
• Identify gaps in existing data of brake and tyre wear emissions and plan experimental campaigns to collect new data.
• Coordinate international efforts to measure and report new emissions data relevant to speciation and source apportionment of emissions.
• Monitor and participate in new regulatory standards on non-exhaust particle emissions.
• Link to partnering organizations running supersite measurement campaigns to ensure efficient uptake of data.

The post-holder will develop methods for characterisation of emissions of non-exhaust (brake and tyre) emission factors (mass, composition). The work will be housed within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and will report to Dr. Adam Boies.

To apply see link here: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/20996/

First Winter School on Aerosol Technology with the Bergmann group at TU Graz and University of Cambridge.

Jean de La Verpilliere, Alex Groombridge and Christian Hocker are all named to Forbes 30 under 30 for Echion Technologies. Great work guys!

https://www.forbes.com/profile/echion-technologies/?list=30under30-europe-industry

A great Christmas party with good trivia and great gifts.

Justin Bishop won an EPRSC Impact Accelerator Account Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to commercialise the ‘SRF Decarbonisation Toolkit’ in conjunction with the Freight Transport Association.

As part of the Fellowship, Justin will develop industry-strength versions of the technology for the ‘SRF Mapper’ and ‘SRF Simulator’

modules, integrated with the well-advanced ‘SRF Logger’ and ‘SRF Optimiser’ via a powerful database back-end.  Justin will also develop a technical roadmap, business model and exploitation plan for the entire software suite. The Fellowship runs for one year, beginning in January 2018.