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It was a pleasure to welcome Prof. Ashwin Seshia from the University of Cambridge to the Cambridge Graphene Centre for a QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture as part of the Michaelmas Term programme. Prof. Seshia delivered an engaging and insightful talk titled “Frequency Combs through Nonlinear Resonances in Micro/Nanomechanical Systems”, attracting …

It was an honour to welcome Dr Lev Mukhanov from IMEC, Belgium to the Cambridge Graphene Centre today for the final QAMSS lecture of this term. Dr Mukhanov delivered a thought-provoking talk titled “From Qubits to Systems: A Full-Stack Approach to Quantum Computing”, offering a systems-level perspective on one of the most rapidly evolving areas of …

It was a pleasure to welcome Dr Anurag Krishna (IMEC, Belgium) to the Cambridge Graphene Centre on 28 November 2025 as part of the QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture series. Dr Krishna delivered an engaging and well-received talk titled:“From Lab to Fab: Scaling Up Perovskite Photovoltaics for Industrial Deployment”Metal halide perovskite solar cell…

We were delighted to welcome Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to the Cambridge Graphene Centre today as part of this week’s QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture. His talk, titled “Unlocking Spin-Valley Locking Via Quantum Transport”, brought together staff and students interested in quantum transport, 2D mate…

We were very pleased to welcome Prof. Bengt Fadeel from the Karolinska Institute to the Cambridge Graphene Centre for this week’s QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture. His talk, titled “Biological Interactions of Graphene and Post-Graphene Materials”, attracted researchers from engineering, materials science and the life sciences who were keen to hear…

It was an honour to welcome Dr Amanda Silva Brun from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, to the Cambridge Graphene Centre (CGC) today for a special QAMSS Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) Lecture.In her talk, titled “Improving Innovation Public Policies by Placing Researchers as Contributors,” Dr Silva Brun shared uni…

The QAMSS Strategic Research Initiative was delighted to welcome Professor F. Malte Grosche from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, for this week’s QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture titled “Prospecting for Unconventional Superconductors.”Professor Grosche is a leading figure in the study of correlated electron systems and quantum ma…

It was a pleasure to welcome Professor Christoph Stampfer from RWTH Aachen University to the Cambridge Graphene Centre (CGC) for this week’s QAMSS SRI Lecture.Prof. Stampfer gave an engaging talk titled “Quantum Dots and Cryogenic FETs Based on Bilayer Graphene”, presenting recent advances in the use of bilayer graphene (BLG) for both quantum and c…

It was an honour to welcome Dr Senad Bulja from the Tyndall National Institute to the Cambridge Graphene Centre (CGC) for the final QAMSS SRI Lecture of this term.Dr Bulja delivered an engaging talk titled “Bulk Reconfigurable Materials for Next Generation Communications”, where he explored how new materials can enable flexible and adaptive communi…

It was a great pleasure to welcome Professor James Tour from Rice University (USA) to the Cambridge Graphene Centre for the latest QAMSS SRI Advanced Technology Lecture on 17 October 2025.Prof. Tour gave a fascinating talk entitled “Flash Joule Heating for Synthesis, Remediation and Valorization,” where he introduced his team’s pioneering work on a…

The discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit receives the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025. Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis! 

Following the keynote by Prof. Ungyu Paik, the QAMSS community welcomed Prof. Taeseup Song, Associate Professor at the Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University (South Korea), for the second invited talk of the day. Prof. Song’s lecture focused on cutting-edge strategies in the development of all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) — a next-ge…

The Quantum and Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Society Strategic Research Initiative (QAMSS-SRI) was honoured to welcome Prof. Ungyu Paik, Distinguished Professor at Hanyang University and former Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea, as the keynote speaker for the final QAMSS Advanced Technology Lecture of …

QAMSS was honoured to welcome Professor Reshef Tenne from the Weizmann Institute of Science, for the final QAMSS SRI Advanced Technology Lecture of this term, held this afternoon at the Cambridge Graphene Centre (CGC).Prof. Tenne, a pioneer in the field of inorganic nanotubes, delivered a captivating talk titled:"Inorganic Nanotubes: From WS₂ to 'M…

On 1 August 2025, QAMSS was delighted to host Prof. Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge) for a thought-provoking seminar titled “Engineering Nano-Structured RNA Organelles in Synthetic and Living Cells.” The lecture drew a strong audience from across disciplines, highlighting the growing interest in synthetic biology and biomolecular engine…