defence and security
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.
COVID-19 and terrorism: assessing the short- and long-term impacts
Summary The COVID-19 pandemic is already having a significant impact on terrorism in a variety of ways. There is a mixed picture on the level of attacks in the short-term – lockdown measures will tend ...
London terrorist attack: fast forward to the past
Another tragic attack in a major city. The attack follows the familiar pattern of unsophisticated, high impact attacks, as we have seen in Nice, Berlin and Ohio State University. There is nothing new in this ...
Education as an investment – from Aadyah Aerospace to Cranfield Defence and Security
I chose Cranfield because it was highly regarded in the organization I was working for - our director of Aerospace was a graduate from Cranfield University, and so were many of my colleagues. Moreover, MSc ...