This site is about our research @ The University of Sheffield
Benedict is undertaking a 3-month placement as a POST Fellow in the UK Parliament House of Lords Science and Technology committee whilst they undergo an inquiry into the UKs Engineering Biology strategy. The inquiry aims to provide recommendations to government policy on facilitating the success of biotechnology research and commercialisation for the benefit of the UK economy, production resilience, and public.
We are glad to see that Laraib is benefiting from her time in Japan with our collaborators at Kyushu University…
Thank you for our collaborators, Prof. Masamichi Nishihara and his group, for hosting her!
And thank you for her sponsors: the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the TUoS’ Energy Institute.
Our research is impacting agriculture. And as such, we are proud to be part of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food… together we are stronger.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/developing-sensors-detect-phosphates-soil
We got funds (£0.4 out of £1.8M) from NSF-NERC to start an exciting project on graphene-based phosphate sensor!
While our collaborator will be designing the sensor, we will characterise its intriguing electronic properties. Phosphate is an essential plant nutrient and its sensing, in real time, in real conditions… will be really cool, and key to foster more sustainable farming practices. A postdoc to work on the project will be needed soon!
We welcome our 6 international students who are currently participating to the 2D Material summer school; in collaboration with Prof. A. Tartakovskii, Prof. G. Leggett and Dr. J. Foster. During this program, they will participate to different lab activities, exploring the Physics and Chemistry of divers 2D materials.
And of course, a big thank you to Arthur and Sayantan who are hosting them in our laser lab.
Team Chauvet 