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Congratulations to Drs Jenny Wong, Evaldas Greiciunas and Rob Kelly who graduated today from our first cohort! It's great to see how all the hard work has paid off. Jenny is currently working as a postdoc at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Evaldas is a Research Associate working on heat transfer problems...
In May-June 2019, I visited the Geodynamo group at Isterre, Université Grenoble Alpes, for a 6 week academic research placement. This was a very enjoyable and productive experience, for which I thank the CDT for funding. During my time there I had fruitful discussion with the whole group and established several contacts, with whom future collaboration...
We are pleased to announce the establishment of a Cross-CDT Network for EPSRC CDT students at Leeds. The purpose of this network is to facilitate networking between CDT's and allow broader support for shared interests (e.g. outreach, science policy). A series of events will bring together students to share information and network on broad topics...
Over 120 students, academic staff and industry partners attended the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) Poster Event on the afternoon of Wednesday 15th May 2019 in the Parkinson Court. Students from the following Centres exhibited their MSc team project and PhD project posters: Bioenergy Complex Particulate Products & Processes (CP3) Fluid Dynamics Integrated Tribology...
The 5th cohort of CDT students presented a stand about "funky fluids" at the Be Curious public engagement festival on Saturday 30th March 2019. This annual event at the University of Leeds attracts thousands of attendees and allows the students to engage the general public in their research. The students' stand explored fluids that are...
Royal Academy of Engineering awards £20 million in funding to engineering global visionaries Next-generation cameras that can see round corners, human-centred robots that can adapt to an individual’s assistive needs and light-powered retinal implants that can restore people’s vision are among the disruptive innovations championed by the Royal Academy of Engineering’s latest Chairs in Emerging...
We are pleased to share the news that CDT student Colin Hardy has been awarded the School of Earth and Environment Postgraduate Researcher Publications Prize for his Royal Society paper 'Determination of the instantaneous geostrophic flow within the three-dimensional magnetostrophic regime'. Colin will be representing the CDT and the Institute of Geophysics & Tectonics at...
We are pleased to announce that the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Leeds has been awarded funding from EPSRC to recruit a further 50 students to the CDT over the next 5 years. The four year integrated MSc/PhD programme will tackle fundamental and applied fluid dynamics problems,...
75 Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) announced £446 million invested in skills development across the UK Industry partners contributing a further £386 million in cash or in-kind One of the UK’s most significant investments in research skills will be announced today when the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and...
A new cross-disciplinary institute to study fluid dynamics will launch on January 30th, 2019. The Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics (LIFD) aims to build on more than 50 years of expertise at the University of Leeds, where more than 90 academic staff are actively involved in the field and many more PhD and postdoctoral researchers....