Professor Ton Peijs and Dr Natalie Stingelin have been awarded funds by EPSRC to run a doctoral training centre, in collaboration with Imperial College, which will fund PhD students working in plastic electronics and novel materials for digital devices.

The funding for this EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training will ensure that for the next five years we can recruit a good number of new research students, each of whom will receive a formal programme of taught coursework to develop and enhance their technical interdisciplinary knowledge, and broaden their set of skills. Alongside this they will undertake a challenging and original research project at PhD level.

Queen Mary’s Vice-Principal for Science and Engineering, Professor Ursula Martin, added: "The award of this DTC comes at the end of a fantastic run of success for the sector in winning awards: our current grant portfolio totals more than £70m, up three fold from 2005."