The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight has a position available for a Masters or PhD level applicant. The two year project will seek to develop sensors for full vehicle energy use and emissions monitoring of in-use vehicles via Android apps. Project management and entrepreneurship are highly valued, as it is likely that portions of the work will be commercialized.
Further information can be found here: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13443/
Jean de la Verpilliere wins the NanoDTC translational prize for “Conversion Li-ion
battery anodes for electric vehicles”.
The NanoDTC Translational Prize Fellowship is awarded to exceptional NanoDTC Students and Associates to carry out projects which enable the translation of cutting edge nanoscience research to higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs).
http://www.nanodtc.cam.ac.uk/directory/Jean-de-la-verpilliere
The Boies group was a part of a larger cambridge consortium within the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight to win funding for monitoring of gas-powered vehicles along with industrial partners Waitrose and CNG Fuels, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/low-emmission-freight-and-logistics-trial-competition-winners-announced
Adam Boies led the organization of the 2016 Annual Aerosol Science Conference “Aerosol from formation to exposure”in Birmingham, UK.
https://aerosol-soc.com/events/annual-aerosol-science-conference/
Jean de La Verpilliere has won Best Poster at the 2016 European Aerosol Conference in Tours, France.
Five members of the Boies Group attended the European Aerosol Conference in Tours, France. A good time was had by all.
The Boies Group celebrates the long summer days in Trinity Gardens.
Adam, Fred and Aruna led a group of University of Minnesota students to India as a part of the ACARA challenge. It continues to be a life-enhancing experience for the students on the course and inspires the instructors. More information can be found at the ACARA webpage, http://environment.umn.edu/category/education/acara/.
Robert Nishida won best poster for his poster “Direct Ultraviolet Photoionization and Recombination of Aerosol Nanoparticles” at the UK Aerosol Society Focus Meeting in London.
Group at Christmas dinner 2015
