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MPLS Outstanding Research Supervison Award winners

Winners of inaugural MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision announced

Research staff and academics across the Division have been recognised as winners of the inaugural MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision, announced today.

From The Conversation: Deep sea reefs are spectacular and barely-explored – they must be conserved

Largely hidden from the masses lie great expanses of deep reefs, which collectively have a larger geographic footprint than their shallower counterparts.

Leaping beetles inspire new, miniature jumping robots

Inspired by jumping insects, researchers from the Mathematical Institute have helped develop a miniature robot capable of leaping more than 40 times its body length- equivalent to a human jumping up to the 20th floor of a building. The innovation could be a major step forward in developing microrobots for a wide range of applications.

Marina Jirotka, Professor of Human Centred Computing

Professor Marina Jirotka on the need for Responsible Innovation and holding AI accountable

Professor of Human Centred Computing, Marina Jirotka, talks to Oxford Profiles about the battle to make tech ethical, sustainable and fair.

Debris accumulating on Aldabra Atoll, a remote coral island and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the southwestern Seychelles. Photo taken as part of the Aldabra Clean-Up Project.

New study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources

A new high-resolution model to quantify the sources of plastic debris accumulating on beaches across the Seychelles and other island states in the western Indian Ocean reveals that most of this waste originates from distant sources and not from the islands themselves.

Oxford Chemist honoured in annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Professor of Physical Chemistry, Susan Perkin, has been named Award Laureate in the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The award comes in recognition of her experimental work using a custom-built instrument – known as the Surface Force Balance – to determine the properties of fluids.

Graphic in shades of blue, showing the chemical symbol CO2 in a cloud shape with three arrows underneath it, pointing downwards, and a series of interconnecting dots and lines to indicate systems and networks. Source: Shutterstock

Climate goals can be achieved at affordable cost, if fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear up

Climate change could be constrained by implementation of policies to ensure fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear-up, or capture, according to new Oxford-led research, published in Environmental Research Letters.

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Winners of inaugural MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision announced

Welcome

Events

Title TBC

MPLS Enterprising Women GroWISE lunchtime masterclass: Managing Transitions to new Roles and Projects

Talk 1 Deep screening of biomolecular repertoires Talk 2 DNA-templated conjugation and assembly of molecular components