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The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) welcomed a record-breaking 917 visitors for this year’s Cambridge Festival, the highest-ever turnout for the department.

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An electric-aircraft-powertrain start-up, co-founded by alumnus Tobias Kahnert, is pushing the boundaries of innovation to develop and manufacture batteries and charging solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – identified as a new niche market for the company.

Awards were presented at the end of term to those second-year students judged to have created the most impressive Group Design Projects.

A team of Year 12 students from Sutton Grammar School has been crowned the winner of the Davidson Inventors Challenge 2025 for their project tackling contaminated fresh water sources.

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Visitors to our Family Open Day in March saw how a swarm of robots learns to work together, met researchers using AI to improve health care and heard about "the joy, beauty, and creativity of computer science".

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome equipment or a visit to a specialist sleep clinic.

Dr Dimitrios Kallifronas, Dr James Massey and Professor Nedunchezhian Swaminathan from the Department's Energy Group are part of a team that have recently received The Sugden Award from The Combustion Institute (British Section) for the best journal article published in 2023.

At a special event in Cambridge our alumnus, Nobel laureate Sir Demis Hassabis, explored how AI can accelerate scientific discovery and offered glimpses of how the technology might evolve.

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses machine learning to accurately determine body composition – which is linked to a higher risk of heart disease, stroke and related conditions – from photographs.

Dr Ewa Marek awarded Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

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The Department of Engineering’s Design and Technical Services team will bring mathematical beauty to life with a Fibonacci spiral wall, designed and built for the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (20-24 May, 2025).

At our Cambridge Festival Open Day here on Saturday 22 March, researcher Dr Sam Nallaperuma will be demonstrating how AI and neuroscience can create sleep and relaxation treatments for insomnia sufferers. 

Cambridge researchers are developing implants that could help repair the brain pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease.