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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.
Every drop counts: Water conservation at Cranfield University using smart technology
About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered (that’s two thirds). 3% of this is freshwater and less than 1% of the Earth’s freshwater is accessible for humans. This leaves only 0.007% of the planet’s ...
A sit down with Chloe Sutcliffe
Can you introduce yourself? I'm Chloe, I’m a social scientist working as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Cranfield. I’ve been here 3 years and I'm currently working on a project looking at ways of ...
My life as an engineer
After completing her PhD in laser processing at Cranfield, Sonia joined the University as a Research Fellow. Eight years on she is now a Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager and gives us an insight ...
An unexpected voyage to St. Kilda
Stefano: Kennedy famously said that the Americans chose to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard. We chose to sail a 43 feet yacht, with a relatively inexperienced ...
Catching up with Phil Renshaw…
Hi there. So as we are now in the month of July 2019, closing in on the very end of my PhD journey, it seems like a good time to add to this blog. In ...