March 2020

Double Success with KTP Grants Awarded

SEMS has secured two new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTPs) grants this month. This success represents a total of about £500K in grant funding and a doubling of SEMS portfolio to a total of 4 live KTP projects. This is all of the live KTP projects running at QMUL currently. The first ... [more]

August 2019

Dr Joe Briscoe gave an invited talk at the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford on perovskite photovoltaics

Dr Joe Briscoe visited the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford to see their work on perovskite photovoltaics and delivered a talk on his research into scalable deposition and treatment of perovskite PVs using aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD). [more]

July 2019

Queen Mary continues to support the rebuilding of higher education in Syria

Queen Mary University of London has hosted a Syrian academic in exile, consolidating its support for academics at risk and the rebuilding of higher education in Syria. Queen Mary is among a number of British universities engaged in the Syria Programme launched by the Council for At Risk Academics (Cara) ... [more]

November 2018

Congratulations to Yaqiong Wang

Congratulations to Dr. Yaqiong Wang who successfully completed her PhD viva on Monday 27 Nov 2018, with thesis entitled 'Effect of Polar Structure on Photocatalytic Properties of Oxide Powders and Films'. She was supervised by Haixue Yan, Steve Dunn and Joe Briscoe. [more]

October 2018

Congratulations to Ying Tu

Congratulations to Ying Tu who passed his PhD viva on Wednesday 24th October 2018. Ying did his PhD on the "Investigation of ZnO nanorods as chemical and biological sensors" under the supervision of Steffi Krause and Joe Briscoe. [more]

March 2018

Queen Mary researcher helps develop rollercoaster which charges your phone

A researcher from Queen Mary University of London has used his expertise in energy harvesting applications to help develop a rollercoaster which charges your phone. Dr Joe Briscoe, from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, was approached by Thorpe Park Resort to work on their latest ride ‘The Walking ... [more]