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Professor Sandra Chapman attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting to receive her Hannes Alfvén Medal.

On Tuesday 16th April, Professor Chapman was presented her award at the annual EGU meeting in Vienna with over 15,000 people in attendance. Sandra also gave a lecture titled ‘Multiscale matters: when coupling across multiple scales drives the dynamics of solar system plasmas.’


Professor Don Pollacco awarded £3 million European Research Council Grant

Congratulations to Professor Don Pollacco who has just been awarded £3 million from the ERC to develop a ‘digital telescope’ that will be capable of producing a highly sensitive continuous movie of the night sky.

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Thu 11 Apr 2024, 11:49 | Tags: Feature News, Press, announcements, Research, Awards, Faculty of Science

Professor Steven Brown publishes new book chapter

Professor Steven Brown, alongside co-authors Les Hughes and Helen Blade from AstraZeneca and Pat Szell (former post-doc at Warwick and AstraZeneca) have published in the Royal Society of Chemistry book entitled 'NMR Crystallography in Pharmaceutical Development.’

Wed 10 Apr 2024, 15:14 | Tags: announcements, Research, Faculty of Science

New Computer Science programme with the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE)

The University of Warwick will launch a new Computer Science programme with the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) this September. This announcement coincides with the second anniversary of the University of Warwick's official twinning with NURE (29 Mar). The full story is available hereLink opens in a new window.

Wed 10 Apr 2024, 13:51 | Tags: Courses Highlight Research Faculty of Science

PhD student awarded Best Student Poster Prize

Joe Gillham (2nd year PhD student in Radiation Dense Materials) has been awarded the Best Student poster Prize at the 12th International Conference on the Science of Hard Materials (ICSHM12) in Sri Lanka.Link opens in a new window


Krishna Bellamkonda (Physics Undergraduate student) wins the Undergraduate Operational Research Challenge

Krishna Bellamkonda (Third year Physics student) was selected to advance to the final stage of the Undergraduate Operational Research ChallengeLink opens in a new window, which took place at the University of Edinburgh on 9th February 2024 and was announced as the winner!


Giant phage holds promise as treatment for lung infections, Warwick researchers find

Dr Jessica Lewis, from the Sagona Lab, has discovered a new bacterial killer that can target common lung infection caused by Burkholderia bacteria that has exciting potential for biotechnological applications.

Press release (3 April 2024)



University of Warwick has been awarded £11m to train PhD students in computational modelling

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems
(HetSys II), led by Professor James Kermode from the School of
Engineering, Dr Livia Bartok-Partay from Chemistry and Professor
Nicholas Hine from Physics, will train a new generation of scientists
in computational modelling. It spans seven departments and three
university research centres forming a national centre of excellence in
computational simulation, providing world class opportunities in the
West Midlands.

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New paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry

Professor Steven Brown and AS CDT PhD student, Mo Rahman have published their paper with colleagues from AstraZeneca and C4X titled "Polymorph identification for Flexible Molecules: Linear Regression Analysis of Experimental and Calculated Solution- and Solid-State NMR Data."


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