Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge

Dina dances! 💃

CEB researcher and 2026 Dance Your PhD competition winner in Chemistry, Dina Haddad talks to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire today at 7:45am.

Listen live on 96.0 FM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_cambridge

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Magnetic Flow | Dance your PhD 2026 Introducing Magnetic Flow, which was created for the Dance Your PhD Competition 2026, run by AAAS and Science. Produced by Dina Haddad, a pole dancer and fin...

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CEB student Dina Haddad has won the 2026 Dance Your PhD competition's 'Chemistry' category!

Check out her original music video below 💃

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CEB-Events - Bigger Picture Talks Our departmental seminar series, Bigger Picture Talks, runs throughout the academic year, inviting thought-leaders from across the world driving significant advances in our impact areas of energy, health and sustainability to share and discuss their work with us. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to hear from other leading researchers, develop new connections and collaborations, and discuss some of the wider questions in our field. We hope they will inspire new ideas for us all to take into our own research.

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Bigger Picture Talks: Community-based research on food‑energy‑water by Dr Vasiliki Karanikola. 18 Mar 2026, 1:30pm, Lecture Theatre 1

Involving communities in cleaner futures💧

Our next Bigger Picture speaker is Dr Vasiliki Karanikola, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona

All University members welcome.

Register to attend 👇

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Thanks for the feedback! Professor Fruk and her team rely on a combination of cutting edge equipment and proven methods in her research.

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Film-medal-anti-werewolfium!

Our favourite transition metal!

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Test tube with layered orange sample; banners reading "The future of Nanomedicine" and event: Saturday 21 March, 11:30am.

Professor Ljiljana Fruk gives a fascinating talk on how nanotechnology can change the way we understand and treat disease at our Cambridge Festival Open Day!

Explore the full programme at the link below 👇

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Microfluidic lab devices on a reflective surface; promotes a hands-on "brain–gut" science workshop Saturday 21 March, 10:00–2:00

Build a circuit that mimics how scientists create artificial paths to mimic the signals travelling from the gut to the brain at our 2026 CamFest open day!

Explore the full programme at the link below 👇

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Breaking the glass ceiling Professor Dame Lynn Gladden, the physical chemist engineering success after success in multi-disciplinary fields for nearly 40 years

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Smiling woman wearing glasses, headshot with teal text banners promoting "breaking the glass ceiling"

It's International Women's Day, a perfect opportunity to revisit the profile of our first female lecturer, Professor Dame Lynn Gladden.

Read the full profile on our website 👇

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Header reads "Name the Element from the clues." Icons below: film strip, medal, and a werewolf crossed out with a diagonal bar.

Last week's element was....

Californium!

Can you name this element from the clues?

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Prof Róisín Owens appointed to top Irish science forum

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Smiling academic at a desk; overlay "Science and policy" announces appointment to Ireland's National Science Advice Forum.

CEB Professor Róisín M. Owens has been appointed to Ireland’s newly established National Science Advice Forum

Read the full story on our website 👇

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As iDMT strengthens its connection to CEB, Jiyizhe explains how the centre has helped nurture her career

Read the full profile on our website 👇

www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/jiyizhe-zhang-profile

Two lab beakers with colored liquids and overlay about innovation at a Digital Molecular Technologies centre

Dr Jiyizhe Zhang's career has seen her rise to become a world-class researcher within the Innovation Centre in Digital Molecular Technologies (iDMT).

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Magnetic Flow | Dance your PhD 2026 Introducing Magnetic Flow, which was created for the Dance Your PhD Competition 2026, run by AAAS and Science. Produced by Dina Haddad, a pole dancer and fin...

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PhDiva 💃

CEB PhD student Dina Haddad has turned her research into an original song and dance.

Check it out for yourself by clicking below 👇

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Build your own berry solar cell 🫐☀️

Get hands-on with fundamental science at our Cambridge Festival Open Day.

📅Saturday 21 March
🕙10:00am - 2:00pm

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Name the element from the clues: "Fm minus He" shown above a bear illustration and a radiation hazard symbol

Last week's element was....

Krypton!

Can you name this element from the clues?

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New insight into allergies AI uncovers hidden allergens in the human microbiome

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Microscopic blue-stained cells with a headline saying AI reveals hidden allergens in the human microbiome

Artificial intelligence has been used to uncover hidden allergens within the trillions of microbes living in the human body, offering insight into why some people develop allergies while others do not.

Full story 👇

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Green ammonia for the future | Cambridge Festival See, hear and feel the power of clean energy in this explosive workshop that explores how green ammonia could fuel the future. Watch a hydrogen balloon go off with a (very loud) bang to reveal just how much energy it holds, then discover how scientists can safely store that energy inside ammonia.

Green ammonia for the future 🔗:

People watching an outdoor green-fuel experiment outside a modern building, promoting a hands-on science event.

Energy for a greener future 🪴

See, hear and feel the power of clean energy in this explosive workshop that explores how green ammonia could fuel the future 💥

Book your place today 👇

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Modern curved academic building with tree under clear sky; overlay announces being over halfway through Lent term.

We're over halfway through Lent Term 2026 and there's still lots to look forward to:

👩‍🏫2 more Bigger Picture Talks
🥽Lab practicals
✏️Design projects

What're you looking forward to?

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Getting to build your own solar cells is an opportunity to get hands on with the basic principles behind solar energy.

‘Tomorrow’s world in the making’ is an exhibition that imagines how the people of tomorrow might look back on the discoveries of today.

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