Dr Edo Boek
PhD
News
March 2025 | ||
 Queen Mary-led Team Wins Prize in AquaLunar Challenge28 March 2025We are proud to announce that a Queen Mary-led team has secured the 2nd Runner-Up Prize in the AquaLunar Challenge - a £1.2 million international competition dedicated to advancing human habitation in space, by developing innovative methods to purify water buried beneath the Moon’s surface. Queen Mary's … [more] | ||
January 2025 | ||
 Advanced drinking water purification equipment installed14 January 2025In December 2024, as part of a fruitful ongoing relationship with Waternet in Amsterdam, major advanced drinking water purification equipment was installed at the School of Engineering and Materials Science. A team from Waternet travelled from Amsterdam to Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) to install the equipment. Waternet is the … [more] | ||
August 2024 | ||
 Queen Mary team awarded £30k in seed funding by UK Space Agency for water purification on the Moon15 August 2024We are proud to announce that a SEMS research team has been awarded £30k in seed funding by the UK Space Agency's Aqualunar Challenge competition for water purification on the Moon. Our winning contribution, the only proposal coming from a team of Chemical Engineers, was recently featured in … [more] | ||