Forensics
My PhD Journey at Shrivenham – Part 1
My background is as an analytical chemist and a forensic scientist. I have a BSc and an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Forensic Science, and after I finished my Masters, I worked for a while as a scientist. However, I always enjoyed research, so I knew that I wanted to do a PhD at some point. When I came across the position at Cranfield, I thought the project sounded interesting and applied.
CFI group at the German electron synchrotron (DESY)
A group of three PhD students from Cranfield Forensic Institute finished a four day visit to DESY, the German electron synchrotron in Hamburg. The group was led by Marleen Vetter, whose PhD project explores novel aspects of polymers under stress. This was this first time the scientists at DESY had used their state of the art X-ray Raman system to look at this sort of material, and they were very interested to see how it would perform.
Forensic Institute transformation – part two
Equipment purchases begin! A major part of our Cranfield Forensic Institute transformation is acquiring new equipment for forensic teaching and research. This week, I approved the first few equipment orders (worth in excess of £250,000) ...
Forensic Institute transformation – part one
Image: Student and staff common room area in B39 This is a time of big changes for Cranfield Forensic Institute. I will be writing a series of blog posts to share with you the exciting events that will happen over the ...
From Christmas Carp to Forensic Anthropology
I don’t really remember when I decided that I want to work with dead things. But I know it was a long time ago and I remember myself as a child, performing postmortem autopsies on the Christmas carp and being intrigued by its air ...
Cranfield University Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associates – helping businesses to achieve growth with academic expertise
Cranfield University has a portfolio of diverse collaborative projects with business that are run under Innovate UK's Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme (KTP). Our current KTP business partners include: Siemens Industrial Turbomachinary Ltd., Warden Plastics Ltd., ...