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30 Oct 2019 - Prince Albert Industrial Fellowship will help DPhil tackle liver tumours

An Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 will support DPhil candidate Elisabeth Pickles as she continues her research into the use of MRI scanning to monitor disease.…

09 Sep 2020 - Double celebrations for DPhil student

DPhil student Selena Milanovic is the winner of the Medtronic lightning round competition and recipient of Best Poster Award at a large international conference.…

21 Jul 2022 - DPhil student honoured with Diana Award

Engineering Science DPhil student and Rhodes Scholar Nadja Yang wins award for social action with her engineering, sustainability and intercultural work…

03 Dec 2019 - DPhil candidate named one of WeAreTechWomen’s 'TechWomen100'

Communications Engineer Arta Cika chosen from shortlist of 200+ women in tech…

06 May 2020 - DPhil student meets 39 Physics Nobel Laureates

Engineering Science DPhil student Hannah Rana reflects on attending the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in July 2019…

16 Mar 2018 - DPhil graduate offered prestigious Clifford G. Shull Fellowship

Oxford scientist is youngest person ever to be offered prestigious Clifford G. Shull Fellowship in U.S. …

22 Jun 2022 - DPhil Student Yana Lishkova latest Oxford engineer to be awarded Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Zonta International Fellowships awarded to women with outstanding academic record and who demonstrate initiative, ambition and commitment to pursuing a career in aerospace engineering and space sciences…

10 Sep 2021 - Post-doc wins prize for DPhil thesis

Recent DPhil graduate Dr Maria Lissner is awarded the 2021 PhD Thesis Prize by DYMAT…

17 Apr 2017 - DPhil Student Named One of the Most Promising Scientists in the UK

Matthew R. Ryder (Balliol College), has been nominated for and awarded many awards throughout his research, including recently the prestigious British Zeolite Association’s (BZA) Founders' Award for the most promising postgraduate scientist working in the area of micro/mesoporous science.…

10 Jan 2019 - DPhil student wins best poster prize at MOF 2018

Second-year DPhil student Bárbara Souza has been awarded best poster prize at an International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Open Framework Compounds. …

10 Jun 2022 - Former Engineering DPhil Hannah Rana selected for 5th international cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows

New Fellows will be supported in advancing interdisciplinary research and innovation around major challenges facing humanity including cancer and heart disease, sustainable fuel production and clean water provision…

10 Jan 2019 - DPhil student wins best poster prize at MOF 2018

Second-year DPhil student Bárbara Souza has been awarded best poster prize at an International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Open Framework Compounds. …

08 Sep 2022 - Engineering DPhil Liliane Momeni receives Google PhD Fellowship

The awards are presented to exemplary PhD students in computer science and related fields and directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD…

20 Jul 2020 - DPhil students working in AI awarded funding to further their research

Congratulations to Heloise Greeff and Alexey Youssef who both work on AI for low- and middle-income countries…

26 Feb 2020 - DPhil student wins award for ureteroscopy research at Medical Imaging conference

Soumya Gupta is Runner-up in the Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Young Scientist Award…

08 Mar 2023 - Engineering DPhil student wins Silver Medal at STEM for BRITAIN 2023

Dylan Sherman won the Silver medal in the Chemistry category for his poster presentation on creating a re-usable, cost-effective, and accurate local source water purity indicator for remote and developing communities…

25 Jun 2021 - DPhil receives Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship

The Fellowship, established in 1938, is a $10,000 USD prize awarded annually up to 35 women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences…

21 Sep 2022 - Engineering Science DPhil is Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow for MPLS Division

Gunshi Gupta, an Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems CDT student, will work with MPLS and departmental leads to champion ED&I for the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Division…

17 Jun 2021 - Impact Award for DPhil’s role in developing rapid diagnostic test used in UK airports

MPLS COVID-19 Award recognises Boon Lim’s contribution to designing early experiments, overseeing clinical trials and setting up airport testing labs…

23 Feb 2022 - DPhil student receives prestigious award for Gas Turbine research

Tom Hickling’s work on modelling heat transfer in jet engines is recognised by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers…

24 Jan 2023 - IBME DPhil student Romain Guyon awarded 2022 Michelson Prize

Prizes support early-career researchers working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases…

07 Mar 2019 - DPhil candidate attends Parliament to present her research on medical applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Bárbara Souza, DPhil candidate in Engineering Science’s Multifunctional Materials and Composites Laboratory, is attending Parliament on 13 March as part of the STEM for BRITAIN competition to present her research to politicians and a panel of expert judges…

13 Apr 2022 - DPhil Student recognised as Future Leader

Dylan Sherman selected for early-career scientist program by American Chemical Society.…

18 Nov 2022 - DPhil student is Rising Star in ESG

Nadja Yang receives a Rising Star award in Environment, Social and Governance by the Women of the Future Programme…

21 Apr 2022 - Q & A interview with DPhil student Jack White

We interview Jack to discuss his DPhil at Oxford e-Research Centre, focused on signal processing algorithms & chirped signals in radio astronomy…

20 Dec 2021 - DPhil Tamsyn Clark awarded Raven prize by British Association of Surgical Oncology

For presentation entitled: "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC)"…

23 Nov 2021 - Q & A interview with DPhil student Yishun Lu

We interview Yishun Lu to discuss his DPhil in Engineering Science at Oxford e-Research Centre…

07 Mar 2022 - DPhil Student Shortlisted for STEM for Britain final

Third year Robotics DPhil student Russell Buchanan is one of 10 engineering researchers chosen to present at this year's final.…

17 Jan 2022 - DPhil for Rasheed

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04 Feb 2022 - DPhil for Matt

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17 Mar 2021 - DPhil student is awarded Venture Capital Fellowship

The Included VC fellowship will provide DPhil student Dr. Alexey Youssef with skills and access into the world of Venture Capital…

26 Apr 2021 - DPhil student admitted into Newton Venture Program

Miroslav Gasparek will receive training in investment in venture capital.…

24 May 2021 - DPhil student wins award at international conference

Selena Milanovic receives the best presentation award for a second time…

15 Feb 2019 - DPhil students study Dynamic Robot Locomotion

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14 Nov 2018 - Prestigious award for DPhil work improving lifespan and performance of electrical motors

Paper wins 1st prize from journal IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics …

25 Jun 2020 - DPhil student wins Most Innovative Idea

Selena Milanovic and teammates compete in hackathon with innovative idea …

07 Oct 2022 - DPhil students win awards for their public engagement with research activities

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15 Apr 2020 - DPhil student wins Stratasys Design Challenge Award

Daniel Fahy recreated a Hoberman Sphere from scratch…

06 Apr 2022 - Barriers to renewable energy transition. Radio interview with DPhil Candidate Abdullah Alotaiq

The race to transition to renewables is not an equal one. Some countries have extra hurdles, others a head start…

19 Aug 2021 - DPhil represents youth constituency at Asia-Pacific Climate Week ahead of COP26

Alli Devlin contributes as a panellist on Green Hydrogen at regional climate conference…

21 Jan 2022 - DPhil student makes Forbes 30 under 30 list

Nadja Yang has been listed on the 2021 Forbes DACH 30 under 30 list for her work with European Young Engineers. …

31 Jul 2019 - Flexible screens and nanoscale printing earn national recognition for DPhil candidate

IET Award for 3D printing technique which uses lasers to build photonic microstructures out of liquid crystal materials.…

26 Oct 2022 - DPhil graduate wins UK Doctoral Researcher Award 2022

Engineering Science DPhil graduate, Hassan Saad Ifti, wins the 2nd prize in engineering at the 2022 Doctoral Researcher Awards in a UK-wide competition.…

15 May 2019 - DPhil student’s machine learning skills help NASA to map settlements

Currently, nearly one quarter of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements or encampments, most in developing countries but increasingly also in the most affluent ones. …

02 Nov 2021 - Engineering DPhil receives award for technology recovering precious metals from wastewater

Christian Peters announced winner of EPSRC IAA merit award and runner up in Oxford Climate Tech and Sustainability Innovation Challenge 2021 …

08 Mar 2021 - New Steering Committee for Women in Engineering Network

Network was established in 2012 for postdoctoral research assistants, students, and academic staff…

01 Feb 2019 - Young engineer nominated to attend global summit in Singapore

DPhil student Laura Diment (Brasenose College) recently returned from the 2019 Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore (20-25 January).…

14 Feb 2019 - DPhil student’s “unique and special work” wins prize at Washington Conference

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has bestowed one of their highest honours, the SLAS Innovation Award 2019, on Cristian Soitu, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford (Harris Manchester College). …

15 Sep 2022 - DPhil student Zac Cesaro passes viva with minor corrections

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27 Jan 2020 - MPLS Women in Stem event welcomes 140 Oxford students and researchers

Event shows students ‘how exciting and diverse research can be’…

23 Jun 2022 - Nadja Yang selected as one of WES Top 50 Women in Engineering: Inventors and Innovators

DPhil student conducts research on the Urban Bioeconomy, a concept to help cities become more sustainable and productive in terms of their biological resources…

02 Oct 2018 - New AI Research Scholarship for Department's Active Vision Lab

Omnitek, a leading designer of intelligent video and vision systems, today announced the start of a new DPhil (PhD) research sponsorship to study novel techniques for implementing deep learning acceleration on FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays).…

16 Aug 2021 - Investigating sustainable alternatives to nitrogen fertilizers

Department’s Control Group use metabolic modelling approaches to explain the cellular processes underlying nitrogen fixation…

29 Apr 2020 - Oxford Engineers awarded Amelia Earhart Fellowship two years running

Fellowships honour women demonstrating superior research in aerospace engineering or space sciences…

18 Aug 2022 - Engineering alumna Dr Selena Milanovic listed in Forbes Italia Under 30 in Science category

The list, chosen by Forbes Italia comprises hundreds of the most promising Italian innovators under 30 in the country in 20 categories – helping to revolutionise the way we live, work, eat, and have fun.…

17 Apr 2020 - How to make AI more trustworthy

58 experts from a range of areas have written a report for ways to improve AI development…

10 Feb 2022 - Dr Romao receives Doctoral Dissertation Prize

Licio Romao has been awarded the 2021 IET Control & Automation Doctoral Dissertation Prize…

24 Oct 2019 - Academics launch Chi.Bio, an innovative robotic platform for biological science research

D. Phil. student Harrison Steel developed the new technology which has widespread applications in biological science research, accelerating scientists' work…

16 Dec 2020 - Driving the Energy Revolution: new report assesses different regions’ readiness and need for grid edge solutions

White Paper finds Finland to be country with highest readiness of regions analysed, while California has highest need…

09 Jan 2023 - FAIR Research - An interview with DPhil student Dominique Batista

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07 Dec 2020 - Congratulations to Dr Aurelien Barbotin on passing his DPhil viva

Aurelien successfully defend thesis on wavefront control for STED microscopy…

21 Oct 2020 - Royal Commission of 1851 Industrial Fellowships for Oxford researchers

Engineering DPhil students will use satellite data with AI to warn authorities of dam collapses; and develop computational models of type 2 diabetes to predict future health outcomes…

15 Jul 2022 - Thermofluids Institute Doctoral Training student wins EPSRC Doctoral Prize Award to extend research into other areas

Jack Gaskell will draw on expertise of Particulates Research Group at the OTI and automative experience of Thermal Propulsion Systems Group to research wear of road and tyres caused by vehicles…

12 Oct 2018 - Engineering Science DPhil student selected as AI Fellow

Second-year DPhil student Ruth Fong has been selected for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellowship by the Open Philanthropy Project…

21 Jun 2021 - AI tool for streamlining prostrate biopsy workflow

Designed by pathologists and biomedical image experts, the workflow could save hundreds of pathologist hours, with potential for NHS savings and acceleration of prostate cancer diagnoses…

28 Sep 2022 - Seven Engineering DPhils receive highly competitive Clarendon Scholarships in latest awards

Clarendon Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence and potential across all graduate degree-bearing subjects at the University of Oxford…

22 Oct 2021 - Doctoral student made Microsoft Research PhD Fellow

Doctoral student Linde Hesse been selected as a Microsoft Research PhD Fellow…

23 Sep 2022 - Surgeon and IBME DPhil Student Tamsyn Clark awarded inaugural Rees-Garden prize at AUGIS2022

For presentation entitled: "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC)"…

27 Jul 2018 - Engineering Science DPhil candidate named one of the UK’s top 10 black students

Talented engineering student selected for Rare Rising Stars Awards 2018…

09 Jul 2021 - Scholarships for graduate students from the Levant

A gift from the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation has enabled the creation of a new scholarship programme for Oxford graduate students from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine…

01 Mar 2017 - Oxford Engineering Science Student Named One of the Most Promising Scientists in the UK

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04 Jun 2021 - Royal Society Award recognises researcher’s pandemic modelling effort

Dr. Saiful Khan has received an Early Career Investigator Award for voluntary efforts in data visualization and visual analytics aimed at combating COVID-19…

12 May 2021 - Royal Society Award recognises researcher’s pandemic modelling effort

Dr. Saiful Khan has received an Early Career Investigator Award for voluntary efforts in data visualization and visual analytics aimed at combating COVID-19…

14 May 2019 - ORI Volunteer at St Paul’s Girls’ School as Robotics Mentor

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15 Feb 2021 - Congratulations to CHI Lab Doctors!

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29 Jun 2022 - Students share their work at Europe’s leading energy efficiency conference

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21 Jun 2022 - Students share their work at Europe’s leading energy efficiency conference

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12 Oct 2020 - Direct observation of Li-ion battery degradation paves the road to a more reliable future

León Romano Brandt and colleagues in Prof Alexander Korsunsky’s team at MBLEM lab in Oxford Engineering Science use Diamond synchrotron light to reveal how batteries degrade during charging.…

28 Jun 2018 - Celebrating our female engineers

International Women in Engineering Day 2018 (Saturday 23 June)…

03 Mar 2021 - Robots navigate by learning from its mistakes

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08 Mar 2021 - Equality and Diversity Committee appoint new Steering Committee for the Women in Engineering Network (WiE)

Oxford e-Research Centre’s Maitha Al Shimmari has been appointed President of the Committee.…

09 Mar 2021 - Congratulations, Dr. Shen

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17 Jun 2019 - MRG at CVPR 2019

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05 Oct 2020 - Hellos and Goodbyes

We are excited to welcome new group members…

05 Nov 2020 - Autumn Update 2020

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28 May 2020 - Knowledge hub developed to track SARS-CoV antibody studies

Worldwide team of researchers partners with Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force …

25 Jan 2022 - New Women in Engineering Network Steering Committee

The Women in Engineering Network (WiE) has announced the election of a new Steering Committee for the year 2022…

23 Jun 2020 - Congratulations to Heloise and Alexey

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21 Jun 2019 - DPhils and researchers help to inspire the next generation of female engineers

Department of Engineering Science's International Women in Engineering Day celebrations 2019…

27 Jan 2021 - Engineering Science DPhils developed App to improve vaccine rollout for housebound patients

VaxiMap has already helped find the optimal route for more than 61,000 GP home visit vaccinations in Britain…

23 May 2019 - A taste of Oxford life for year 12 students

The Department of Engineering Science recently teamed up with St Peter’s College to welcome 30 Year 12 state school students for a two-day outreach event.…

05 Sep 2019 - Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate faces in the wild

Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence software to recognise and track the faces of individual chimpanzees in the wild.…

16 Oct 2019 - Alumni in IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award final

Dr Claire Lucas completed undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Oxford…

28 May 2020 - Knowledge hub developed to track SARS-CoV antibody studies

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23 May 2019 - ORI at ICRA 2019

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29 Mar 2019 - ORI Volunteer at St Paul’s Girls’ School as Robotics Mentor

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23 Nov 2020 - Women at Oxford Centenary: Valentina Musat

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22 Sep 2020 - Professor Richard Stone elected Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow

Fifty-three leading engineers from the UK and around the world elected in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession…

29 Aug 2019 - Thomas Steeples attends European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)

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03 Aug 2020 - Adjunct Lecturership for Rahul

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23 Mar 2023 - Engineering Students Represent Oxford in the Annual Boat Race

the Department is proud to celebrate our Engineering Science students wearing Oxford Blue in the 2023 Boat Race on 26th March.…

13 Aug 2019 - Robotics team showcase robot’s ‘human support’ capabilities at Sydney’s RoboCup contest

Team ORIon’s robot competed with international teams to successfully take out the rubbish and other household tasks.…

25 Oct 2019 - The solution to green energy concerns could be in your household cleaning products

So called ‘green ammonia’ could allow the storage and transportation of sustainable energy around the globe. Meet the DPhil candidate investigating applications in developing countries. …

06 Nov 2019 - Healthcare AI researcher appointed to Faculty position in recognition of Academy Fellowship

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Tingting Zhu has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship 2019 as well as the IET J.A. Lodge award.…

29 Jul 2020 - Reaching out to the next generation: International Women in Engineering Day 2020

Budding young engineers had the opportunity to hear what a career in engineering is really like from our female DPhils, researchers and academics…

12 Nov 2021 - AI used to recognise primate behaviours in the wild

Method will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analysing animal behaviour in video footage…

24 Nov 2021 - Post-doctoral researcher receives prize for best ongoing research

Aaron Ceross’ work on improving navigation of medical device regulations is given an award by the ICEGOV international conference …

23 Jun 2022 - International Women in Engineering Day 2022

Department celebrates our female academics, researchers and students…

28 Jul 2022 - Oxford University Racing team competes at Silverstone

The Oxford University Racing team enjoyed success competing in the IMechE Formula Student Competition at Silverstone, entering their first built and tested electric racing car. The process involved using practical engineering, business planning and project management skills. …

01 Feb 2019 - Young engineer nominated to attend global summit in Singapore

DPhil student Laura Diment (Brasenose College) recently returned from the 2019 Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore (20-25 January).…

27 Oct 2020 - New Departmental lecturers in electrical and mechanical engineering

Drs Suchandrima Das and Amanda Smyth joined the Department recently and will conduct research in material modelling and environmental fluid dynamics…

05 Oct 2021 - Funding to investigate role of brainstem nucleus in human consciousness

Researchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant to investigate the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in human consciousness.…

01 Jul 2016 - Engineering Science students are Boat Race winners

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11 Oct 2021 - Welcome to 2021/22 Academic Year

Hellos, goodbyes and updates…

29 Nov 2021 - Miss Tamsyn Clark awarded Raven prize by British Association of Surgical Oncology

For presentation entitled: "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC)"…

13 May 2019 - Profile: Matthews Mtumbuka, engineer and charity CEO

Matthews Mtumbuka, born in Malawi, attained his DPhil in Communications Engineering here in 2005. Newly announced as the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance, a non-profit organisation supporting universities in Eastern and Southern Africa, Matthews tells us how his time at Oxford equipped him for industry success.…

03 Dec 2018 - Oxford ranked first in world for Engineering

The University of Oxford has become the first UK institution to top the Times Higher Education Engineering and Technology global subject rankings…

06 Jun 2019 - Raising fluid walls around living cells

Engineers have miniaturized the liquid handling involved in biomedical workflows by borrowing methods used so successfully to shrink integrated circuits in computer chips. However, few biologists exploit the resulting devices because they are so expensive, complex, and made with unfamiliar materials. …

26 Jun 2019 - Best Paper Award is “huge boost” for cardiac imaging researchers

Cardiovascular diseases account for 17.9 million deaths each year, representing 30% of global mortality rates. Research undertaken by a pair of Oxford DPhil students aims to use automation to help clinicians in their diagnoses – and a prize awarded at a top heart imaging conference represents a big vote of confidence in their work. …

27 Jun 2019 - IET Scholarship for drug delivery researcher

Postgraduate researcher Oliver Vince has been announced as one of just five recipients of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)’s coveted 2019 scholarship awards. The prize recognizes his work in the non-invasive delivery of drugs to treat microscopic brain tumors.…

08 Jul 2019 - Postgraduate Scholarship will help AI researcher publicise her work

Another major prize has been won by a Department postgraduate student, with the announcement of Saumya Jetley as one of the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s 2019 Postgraduate Scholars.…

16 Sep 2019 - Oxford Researchers Recognised at BSSM Annual Conference

Professor Clive Siviour and DPhil student Akash Trivedi attended the BSSM Annual Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics in Belfast this September…

25 Feb 2020 - Professor Alexander M. Korsunsky elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Distinction "indicates a very high level of achievement in physics and an outstanding contribution to the profession"…

31 Mar 2020 - Ventilator project gets green light from UK government

OxVent project to proceed to next stage of testing for safety and usability…

01 Jul 2021 - AI pioneered at Oxford to detect floods from space

A new technology, developed by Oxford researchers, in partnership with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Φ-lab, was deployed on 'Wild Ride' mission launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, 30 June…

06 May 2022 - Thermofluids researcher wins national prize for ‘Best PhD in Heat Transfer’

Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Dr Daniel Fahy, has won the prestigious Geoffrey Hewitt Prize for the best PhD in Heat Transfer.…

24 Jan 2023 - Oxford Energy Society Hilary Term 2023 Events

A new series of talks from Oxford's Premier Energy and Sustainability Society on issues surrounding climate change and the global supply and demand of energy.…

11 Jan 2022 - Winter Update

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11 Feb 2021 - Women at Oxford Centenary: Corina Gurau

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17 Oct 2022 - Undergraduate Students Run Experiments with Multiple Quadcopters

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20 Mar 2019 - University spinout’s fusion power approach inspired by pistol shrimp’s knockout punch

First Light Fusion, a company spinout from the Department of Engineering Science, is home to Machine 3, the world’s largest device dedicated to researching inertial fusion energy.…

24 Sep 2019 - EUROP programme gives undergraduates hands-on research experience

3rd year student Aren Karapetyan is using the summer break to learn how to control, robustify and program small drones…

02 Oct 2019 - Four Engineering Science academics announced as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows

Professors Alan Cocks, Constantin Coussios, Peter Ireland and Philip Torr elected in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession…

03 Oct 2019 - DeepMind renews commitment to under-represented students at Oxford

The artificial intelligence company has renewed and extended its commitment to supporting students at the University following the success of its inaugural scholarships for under-represented groups…

14 Oct 2019 - Inspiring schoolchildren to pursue engineering and natural sciences at university

Student engineers spend a week teaching at village schools in rural Karnataka, southern India…

14 May 2020 - Paper on safety of ultrasound scans gains recognition

Prestigious publication, the European Journal of Ultrasound, picks recent paper as Editor’s choice.…

03 Jun 2020 - How smart control of the proposed Severn Barrage could prevent flooding

Civil Engineering researchers model the impact of a barrage on the Severn Estuary and surrounding area…

26 Aug 2020 - New academic appointments in 2020

Department of Engineering Science welcomes four new faculty members…

06 May 2021 - Professor Philip Torr elected Fellow of the Royal Society for outstanding contribution to scientific understanding

Professor Torr is distinguished for his contributions to computer vision, which have significantly influenced commercial applications in the field…

19 Jan 2023 - Three Engineering academics receive MPLS Outstanding Research Supervision award

University awards celebrate colleagues who demonstrate leadership and best practice by nurturing and supporting research colleagues …

02 Oct 2019 - Four Engineering Science academics announced as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows

Professors Alan Cocks, Constantin Coussios, Peter Ireland and Philip Torr elected in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession…

14 Dec 2020 - UK VIS Experts Volunteer their Time and Expertise to Help Combat COVID-19

Volunteers support modelling scientists and epidemiologists in the Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium…

01 Sep 2022 - New paper offers comprehensive review of data centre energy use records from past 15 years

Paper identifies methodological problems within this research field and highlights opportunities to improve methodologies, important for assessing environmental impact and energy supply issues…

29 Jul 2019 - A UNIQ opportunity for potential students at our summer school

A group of bright young minds joined us for an intensive week of engineering tuition, as they considered their post A-Level options and discovered what Oxford could mean for them.…

25 Nov 2020 - Printing liquid walls for biomedical applications

Researchers develop new methology for printing transparent liquid walls that manipulate small volumes of liquids with uses in various sectors including biomedicine.…

13 Dec 2022 - Mapping the old with the new: handheld 3D scanning of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre

A collaborative project involving the Oxford Robotics Institute, the Sheldonian theatre, and multinational construction equipment company Hilti is bringing forward the next generation of digital mapping technologies. …

15 Sep 2022 - Researchers represent Centre at annual conference for Research Software Engineers

Five researchers from FAIRsharing and the larger Data Readiness Group at the University of Oxford attended RSECon22 in early September, presenting a poster and several talks during the conference…

20 Feb 2023 - NeEDS met

Under a Horizon 2020 Programme, Network of European Data Scientists (NeEDS) offers travelling scholarships for researchers at the University of Oxford to work with European companies on industrial data science problems…

28 Mar 2022 - Insight into splashing droplets impacts future engineering in nature and industry

Dr Tom Sykes and Prof Alfonso Castrejon-Pita research the micromechanics of drops splashing on curved surfaces…

09 Feb 2023 - How heat pumps can keep homes warm without frying the power grid

Heat pumps will help us address the climate crisis and the energy crisis, but flexibile solutions are necessary to avoid overloading the electricity grid…

07 Jan 2019 - 2018 Review, from our Institutes

The Department has five Institutes which lead the way for research and collaboration in different areas of engineering, including biomedical, thermofluids and robotics - here they talk about their highlights from 2018…