Department of Engineering

Cambridge Power Electronics Laboratory showcased research breakthroughs at leading power electronics conferences, ECCE Europe and PCIM Shanghai.

Cambridge Engineering alumni Nathan Jackrazi and Dr Amy Rochford have been announced the winners of the 2025 King’s College Entrepreneurship Prize with their start-up Axo Neurotech. Third prize went to MPhil student Chris Tagnon, co-founder of CAST Energy.

Alumnus Michael Korn, inventor and founder of the KwickScreen privacy system used across the NHS, has launched a new venture aimed at addressing one of the UK’s most persistent challenges - turning world-class innovation into commercial success.

New research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) and Queen Mary University of London, could redefine how we interact with everyday tools and devices – thanks to a novel method for printing ultra-thin conductive microfibres.

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be less severe – raising concerns that those most critically injured are not even reaching the operating theatre.

Congratulations to Professor Swami Swaminathan on being elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession.

Hugh Thomas has won the John Winbolt Prize for his paper, 'Can sharing car trips deliver meaningful emissions savings? The case of Great Britain' published in the journal Applied Energy.

Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano has taken his PhD research to the next level by launching Polytecks – a spin-out dedicated to faster, earlier and more accurate diagnostics for heart defects.

As a child growing up in New Jersey, Lane Painter was fascinated by robots of all kinds. He was curious about how they worked, how they were built, and most importantly, what they might do.

Patrick Carter-Cortez and Maximilian Kraus recently attended the Nuclear Futures: Shaping Dialogue in a Changing World conference in Sydney and both won Certificates of Achievement for Best Abstract in Category.

PhD research student Qi Wang wins two prestigious international prizes for Advances in Superconducting Trapped Field Magnets.

Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve health outcomes for patients.

A University of Cambridge spin-out company working to improve AI efficiency and bandwidth has raised €25 million in new funding.

Dr. Wei Bi has been selected as one of the fifteen new ETH Fellows and will spend two years at ETH Zurich conducting interdisciplinary research on infrastructure resilience and adaptation to evolving climate risks.

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way that’s similar to humans.

An ageing population, mounting financial constraints, and the lasting repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic have placed unprecedented strain on the system. As Lord Darzi's independent investigation of the NHS in England highlights, the NHS is grappling with declining public satisfaction, missed performance targets, and a widening gap between its founding principles and the reality experienced by patients. 

A total of 18 Engineering undergraduates have been awarded Arthur Shercliff Prizes – a newly established Cambridge fund to honour the memory of former Head of Department Professor Arthur Shercliff.

Students from the Integrated Multimodal Pattern Analysis for Climate Transformation Research Group volunteered to offer their skills in geospatial data, remote sensing, web map visualisation, and image signal processing to understand the earthquake impacts in Myanmar and Thailand.

Civil engineer Laura Kasuni Wathe came to Cambridge to pursue an MPhil with one goal in mind: to take learnings about systems thinking, resilience, data use and user-centred design, and apply it in the African context, with the aim to contribute to sustainable development at scale.

The SIRIUS Wildfire Alliance team, which includes researchers from the University of Cambridge, has advanced to the finals of the XPRIZE wildfire competition.