We are delighted to announce that Martin Costa, a PhD student at the Theory and Foundations research division, has received a highly competitive Google PhD Fellowship for his work on designing clustering algorithms for dynamic datasets. The Fellowship comes in the form of an unrestricted gift from Google, of 60,000 USD per year, for up to two years. Under the category of "Algorithms and Theory", besides Martin only two other PhD students in Europe (from University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich) received a Google PhD Fellowship this year. Many congratulations to Martin for this achievement!

We are pleased to announce that two of our academic staff members, Dr Jonny Foss and Dr Ian Saunders, have been awarded professional fellowships by Advance HE, recognising their commitment to educational excellence.

iGEM is a global synthetic biology competition that involves more than 400 teams worldwide.

The University of Warwick iGEM team 2024 – team BEACON – took part in the iGEM competition, which culminated with the iGEM Jamboree in Paris, at the end of October. We would like to congratulate Aaron Lee (CSE) for their fantastic work on the project within the team including 9 other UG students from various departments, including Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering and Mathematics. For their interdisciplinary project, they addressed the need for developing better ways to recycle lanthanides, such as the ones found in electronic devices. They engineered bacteria to scavenge for lanthanide ions and swim towards a point for collection through an engineered chemotactic system. Team BEACON were awarded a Gold medal (grade) at the Jamboree, in recognition of their success during the project.