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17 Oct 2018 - Innovate UK funding for study looking at Virtual Private Wire Networks

Innovate UK funding for study looking at Virtual Private Wire Networks …

15 Feb 2023 - Oxford researchers to contribute to Pioneering Places study on Oxford’s transition to Net Zero

University of Oxford researchers will work with a range of local partners on a feasibility study aimed at improving our understanding of systemic changes required to accelerate the preparation of Oxford’s homes for a zero-carbon energy system…

07 Jul 2020 - Air and noise quality study will help inform Oxford City’s future environmental policy approach

Researchers at Birmingham and Oxford Universities have secured £207,000 funding to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. …

15 Feb 2019 - DPhil students study Dynamic Robot Locomotion

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17 Dec 2018 - New MSc in Energy Systems launches at Oxford

The University of Oxford has announced the launch of a new MSc in Energy Systems…

23 Sep 2022 - Study finds night-time blood pressure assessment important in diagnosing hypertension

When undiagnosed and untreated, hypertension (also known as high blood pressure) causes cardiovascular disease, which is one of the main causes of death and disability in the UK…

10 Apr 2018 - 21 month study shows positive results for gestational diabetes smartphone app

App developed as part of a collaboration between Engineering Science, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Drayson Health…

01 Apr 2015 - Testing the thermal tolerance of the fusion reactors of the future

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01 Mar 2019 - Research featured on cover of Journal of Microscopy

Novel microscopy‐based approaches to study the film formation mechanism and associated mechanical response in polymer lattices…

01 Jul 2021 - Focused Ultrasound for Pancreatic Cancer

University of Oxford Announces Opening of PanDox Phase 1 Study investigating Targeted Drug Delivery by Focused Ultrasound for Pancreatic Cancer…

14 Feb 2020 - Professor Lionel Tarassenko awarded Global Challenges Research Fund

GCRF award enables development of smartphone app to help diagnose pneumonia in children…

27 Mar 2023 - COVID-19 Lockdowns Show Positive Impacts on Traffic Flow and Air Quality in Oxford

Researchers looked at how the COVID-19 lockdown measures impacted the traffic flow and the concentrations of pollutants in Oxford’s atmosphere. …

06 Mar 2020 - AI finds “smell” genes might have a role beyond the nose

The genes that help you smell could also be assisting the spread of colon cancer. …

11 Mar 2020 - Australia’s bushfires made 30% more likely by climate change, say researchers

Study explores role of human induced climate change in the 2019–2020 South-Eastern Australian bushfire season…

18 Jun 2018 - Department partners with Oxford Bus Company to pinpoint 'pollution hotspots' in Oxford

Researchers from the Department of Engineering Science are collaborating with the Oxford Bus Company to conduct a detailed emissions study on buses across the city…

12 May 2023 - Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.…

28 Apr 2017 - Fast-NGC at the Royal Institution

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04 Apr 2019 - Digital annotation methods presented at the Music/ Media/ History conference

Event aimed at re-thinking Musicology in an age of digital media…

04 Feb 2022 - DPhil for Matt

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07 Jan 2022 - Future of Work: AI predicts what could and should be automated in healthcare

Using artificial intelligence (AI), Oxford researchers have developed a tool to help policymakers and organizational leaders harness the positive power of AI while reducing its unwanted effects on jobs…

31 Aug 2021 - Climate change made extreme rainfall and devastating impacts in Brazil’s Minas Gerais more likely, according to Scientists

Study is an output from a workshop funded by the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership Brazil focussed on ‘event attribution’…

31 Jan 2023 - Bioelectronic implant offers an intelligent therapy to treat incontinence

The first participants in a clinical trial of a bioelectrical therapy to treat incontinence have received their “smart” bioelectronic implants developed by University of Oxford spinout Amber Therapeutics, and BioInduction Ltd…

03 Sep 2020 - Knowledge engineering for patient care: lessons from COVID-19

A new approach to rapid translation of clinical guidelines into point of care support services has produced a novel pattern for designing and deploying AI systems across healthcare …

28 Jan 2022 - 3D pattern linked to infarct risks identified by researchers

With their findings, patients will know the risks of suffering a major cardiovascular event such as reinfarction just two days after an infarct…

08 Jun 2022 - Gravity-defying spike waves rewrite the rule book

Researchers studying wave breaking have found that axisymmetric ‘spike waves’ can far exceed limits that were previously thought to dictate the maximum height of ocean waves.…

09 Mar 2023 - Making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable: FAIR enabling resources for you

Oxford e-Research Centre researchers feature in films by ELIXIR-UK, presenting the FAIR-enabling resources we lead on…

02 Jul 2018 - Focussed ultrasound used to improve effects of cancer drugs

Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers…

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.…

23 Sep 2020 - IMIA Award for Tingting Zhu

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09 Mar 2021 - Congratulations, Dr. Shen

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23 Jul 2021 - New paper published on the value of information

"Relationship between Age and Value of Information for a Noisy Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Process" published in Entropy as part of the Special Issue Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control (https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/8/940/htm)…

11 Feb 2022 - New paper on the value of information to be published

Paper titled "A Framework for Characterising the Value of Information in Hidden Markov Models" to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08841)…

04 Sep 2018 - Professors Tarassenko and Noble join distinguished speakers at FORUM Lecture

Professors Lionel Tarassenko, Oxford University’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of Engineering Science, and Alison Noble, Professor of Biomedical Engineering took part in the fully-booked 2018 FORUM Annual Lecture, ‘Transforming healthcare through engineering and technology’, on Wednesday 5 September.…

15 Jan 2020 - Nano-scale X-ray vision: probing crystal defects

Coherent X-ray microscopy enables nanoscale examination of material defects and the distortions they cause, and promises new insights for the optimisation of high performance materials for aerospace and power generation.…

01 Jun 2016 - The damaging consequences of FIBing

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15 Jan 2020 - Nano-scale X-ray vision: probing crystal defects

Coherent X-ray microscopy enables nanoscale examination of material defects and the distortions they cause, and promises new insights for the optimisation of high performance materials for aerospace and power generation.…

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…

25 Aug 2021 - Dr Ping Lu receives award at International Conference

Post-doctoral researcher Dr Ping Lu receives Best Poster Presentation Award at 2021 Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart conference…

14 Mar 2022 - The hidden footprint of low-carbon indoor farming

New study challenges the universal land-saving claims of vertical farming…

23 Jun 2022 - International Women in Engineering Day 2022

Department celebrates our female academics, researchers and students…

05 Sep 2022 - New international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in STEM

Oxford partners with the Optiver Foundation to launch programme which will increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study STEM subjects at postgraduate level …

20 Apr 2018 - Body temperature machine perfusion technique improves liver transplant success

Preserving livers at body temperature has been shown to improve transplant success and to increase the number of viable donor livers available for transplant…

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"…

07 Aug 2020 - New digital classification method using AI developed for colorectal cancer

Understanding the molecular subtype of a cancer is becoming an importance part of the diagnostic process as it helps a doctor better understand a patient’s prognosis, determine the best course of action for treatment and helps researchers devise new, more-efficient, precision therapies.…

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.…

10 Mar 2021 - Engineering Science team awarded joint UK-Ireland funding to research ocean wave breaking

£1.1m multi-institution project aims to assist the development of offshore renewable energy in challenging sea conditions…

24 Jan 2022 - Department launches a new access programme for girls

Uncover Engineering is a new residential access programme at Oxford offering girls aged 14-15 the chance to learn about engineering, supported by the Waste Environmental Education Research Trust …

07 Nov 2022 - CIWM to fund Uncover Engineering programme

The programme is designed to increase the number of engineering students from socio-economically disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds and help address the UK skills shortage…

13 Nov 2019 - New Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for MSc Energy Systems announced

Funded by UK Department for International Development and the University of Oxford to support students from developing Commonwealth countries…

12 Jan 2023 - Boosting the reproducibility of research

The Centre’s Data Readiness Group and FAIRsharing participate in EU Project TIER2, leading on the work with the publishers …

04 Oct 2018 - Stanley Speel receives the 2018 Matthew Greenwood Award

This year’s Matthew Greenwood Award has been presented to Stanley Speel, a fourth-year Hertford College undergraduate student who consistently went above and beyond as a Student Ambassador for Engineering Science at Oxford. …

05 Oct 2020 - Understanding the global impact of COVID-19 through Data Science

Oxford COVID-19 (OxCOVID19) database and tracker is a powerful tool for understanding the pandemic and predicting its future course, using the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques…

02 Sep 2021 - AI test screens for COVID-19 26% faster than lateral flow tests

An Artificial Intelligence test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients presenting with COVID-19, an Oxford study has shown.…

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…

17 Nov 2021 - Team ORIon Board Game & Pizza Night

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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).…

18 Jun 2019 - Oxford e-Research Centre teams up with ECMWF to enable scientists to run the OpenIFS weather model on thousands of people’s home computers

The OpenIFShome project was launched on 18 June during this year’s OpenIFS user workshop at the University of Reading.…

08 Nov 2019 - New Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for MSc Energy Systems announced

Fully-funded scholarship will support student from developing Commonwealth countries…

23 Apr 2020 - Machine learning identifies scoliosis in large data sets

Researchers have developed an algorithm for automatically sifting through thousands of full body scans to automatically identify scoliosis, a condition that causes curvature of the spine. …

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…

07 Oct 2020 - New AI technology to help research into cancer metastasis

DeepScratch is a new AI technology that can be used to analyse how cells move in response to wounds, building on the latest advances in deep learning…

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…

29 Apr 2021 - Nanomaterials engineered for high-speed impact

Engineers from the universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Ghent have demonstrated a fundamentally new energy absorption mechanism under high-speed mechanical impact…

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…

21 Nov 2022 - New mathematical model could help avoid spattering squeezy sauce bottles

Findings from Dr Callum Cuttle and Professor Chris MacMinn could have important implications for many different fields that involve displacing a fluid with a gas…

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).…

10 Jan 2021 - A novel integrated material recovery and waste-to-hydrogen concept

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30 Oct 2022 - A system model for waste management planning in England

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07 Jan 2021 - Workshop on extreme event attribution and impacts assesses influence of climate change on Minas Gerais extreme rainfall event

Workshop run by University of Oxford, Met Office and Cemaden as part of CSSP Brazil project…

13 May 2021 - Centre contributes to new release of Music Encoding and Linked Data software

Researchers at Oxford e-Research Centre have contributed to the release of version 2.0 of the open source Music Encoding and Linked Data framework…

25 Nov 2021 - Virtual work placement gives a secondary school pupil the opportunity to contribute to the work of FAIRsharing

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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. …

17 Jan 2019 - NICE approves machine perfusion of livers for transplantation for use in the NHS

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has approved the use in the NHS of ex-vivo machine perfusion for preservation of livers donated for transplants…

02 May 2019 - Professor of Language Modelling elected National Academy of Sciences member

Members elected by their peers in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research…

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 …

20 Aug 2020 - Professor Jin-Chong Tan wins STFC ISIS Science Impact Award

For group’s work on lattice dynamics in Metal-Organic Frameworks…

18 Sep 2020 - Professor Manolis Chatzis is ‘Outstanding Reviewer’ for Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Recognition by journal editors for reviewers based on quality and timeliness of reviews during the past year…

08 Oct 2020 - Professor Stride announced as Honorary Fellow of IET

Institution of Engineering and Technology announces 16 Honorary Fellows to mark its 150th year. Professor Stride was awarded the Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to biomedical engineering and research into treatment of major diseases.…

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…

26 Mar 2021 - Funding awarded for European Training Network in AI

€4m network of European Universities and industrial collaborators will fund research and train next generation of experts in AI…

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.…

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)"…

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…

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…

24 Jan 2019 - Engineering student’s AI research improving hospital patient flow wins national prizes

Jennifer Bishop’s work on developing AI algorithms to improve the flow of patients through hospitals won two national prizes during 2018 - the IMechE 'Vicon Award for Best Medical Engineering Undergraduate' and the Dennis Hill award for 'Best MEng or MSc Student in Biomedical Engineering'…

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. …

02 May 2019 - Professor of Language Modelling elected National Academy of Sciences member

Members elected by their peers in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research…

05 Jul 2019 - Climate change made France’s heatwave at least five times more likely, say researchers

June 2019’s heatwave broke all-time temperature records across Europe…

15 Dec 2017 - 2017 Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop most successful to date

Over 60 scholars gathered for the 4th international workshop…

29 Mar 2023 - Roundup of an enlightening Hilary term talk series from the Oxford Energy Society

The series brought in entrepreneurs, academics, and executives to discuss a wide variety of topics in the energy sector and its transitions…

10 Oct 2022 - David Witt 1932-2022

David Witt, who was a lecturer at the department from 1959-1999, and fellow of Merton College, passed away on 3rd October, aged 90…

01 Jun 2021 - Control Applications in Plant Metabolism

Spotlight on ongoing work by Carolin Schulte…

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)"…

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…

23 Jul 2019 - Getting the full Oxford experience: 38 sixth-form students get stuck in to Engineering

95% of students said their experience would influence their choice of university or degree…

31 Jul 2020 - New AI test identifies COVID-19 within one hour in emergency departments

Infectious disease and clinical machine learning experts at the University of Oxford have developed an Artificial Intelligence test that can rapidly screen for COVID-19…

09 Mar 2022 - New report into the intersection of AI and the arts

Collaboration between the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science and the Oxford Internet Institute looks into the possibility of AI transforming art…

01 Feb 2022 - New international project will map connections between art and museum exhibitions

Enriching Exhibition Scholarship: Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter…

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 Oct 2018 - Dr Kevin Page chairs Digital Libraries for Musicology Conference

70 international researchers attended the 5th DLfM conference in Paris, Franc…

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…

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…

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.…

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

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09 Jan 2018 - Smart sensor could revolutionise crime and terrorism prevention

Crime, terrorism prevention, environmental monitoring, reusable electronics, medical diagnostics and food safety, are just a few of the far-reaching areas where a new chemical sensor could revolutionise progress.…

24 Jan 2019 - Engineering student’s AI research improving hospital patient flow wins national prizes

Jennifer Bishop’s work on developing AI algorithms to improve the flow of patients through hospitals won two national prizes during 2018 - the IMechE 'Vicon Award for Best Medical Engineering Undergraduate' and the Dennis Hill award for 'Best MEng or MSc Student in Biomedical Engineering'…

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). …

20 Feb 2019 - What is new and coming next in Social Machines?

New book explores the theory and practice of social machines now and in the future…

06 Jan 2014 - New international initiative focuses on brain mechanics and trauma research

Dr Antoine Jérusalem, from the Department of Engineering Science, is one of the founders of a new international initiative that will focus research on brain problems.…

10 Apr 2019 - Engineering Science students prove “This Girl Can” at local secondary school

Two first year Engineering Science students introduced engineering to year 8 girls at a local secondary school last month…

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.…

11 Jun 2019 - Engineering Science spinout OrganOx shortlisted for MacRobert Award 2019

The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the finalists for the 2019 MacRobert Award, the most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation.…

14 Jun 2019 - School students experience Oxford as part of 2019 Lubbock Lecture

Each year, the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture sees an audience of academics, students and alumni come together to hear a world-leading engineer discuss their work. Also joining us each year is a group of sixth-form students, all of them making decisions about their future and ready to be inspired by the thought of a career in engineering.…

20 Jun 2019 - New research could hold the key to understanding cell behaviour

Research Fellow Weidi Xie, together with Professors Alison Noble and Andrew Zisserman, has won the Taylor and Francis Best Paper Award for his DPhil research into microscopy cell counting and detection.…

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.…

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.…

10 Sep 2019 - Paying it forward - Engineering undergraduate mentors UNIQ Summer School students

Two years after attending Wadham’s UNIQ Engineering Summer School himself, Oxford undergraduate Arun was back as a mentor helping the 2019 group.…

01 Oct 2019 - Professor Lionel Tarassenko receives Oxford Trust Outstanding Achievement Award

Leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning in healthcare given award for his contribution to biomedical engineering and innovations in healthcare technology …

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

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

17 Jan 2020 - Institute of Biomedical Engineering scoops Science Oxford Gold Employer Award

Award recognises IBME’s role in inspiring young people to study and work in science…

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…

25 Aug 2020 - Neurotransmitter drugs discovered to play role in forming blood vessel networks provide insights on Alzheimer’s

Researchers use image analysis algorithm to examine the networks formed by cells that line blood vessels and characterise the effects of over 1,000 drugs on these critical processes…

12 Feb 2021 - New machine learning system developed to identify deteriorating patients in hospital

Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that could improve clinicians’ ability to identify hospitalised patients who need intensive care.…

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…

28 Feb 2022 - New spinout from Engineering Science aids navigation of medical device regulations

Data-driven digital tool RegMetrics supports health technology innovators on their regulatory journey by helping them interpret complex regulations…

14 Jul 2022 - Final year undergraduate student Luke Hatton receives Salters’ Graduate Award

Awards are presented to ten candidates that demonstrate the ability to become leaders in the area of Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. …

15 Mar 2023 - Innovative 'Heat Pump Ready' Neighbourhood Roll Out In Oxford

Clean Heat Streets project to install up to 150 heat pumps in Rose Hill, Oxford, ultimately aims to save time, money, and resources to encourage more people to adopt heat pump technology…

24 May 2023 - Oxford University joins Imperial and York in £12 million fusion power industry partnership

A multi-institutional team will explore a new method for creating fusion power they hope could eventually be scaled to provide safe, clean, and abundant energy.…

10 Apr 2019 - Engineering Science students prove “This Girl Can” at local secondary school

Two first year Engineering Science students introduced engineering to year 8 girls at a local secondary school last month…

06 Jul 2020 - An Integrated Polygeneration Strategy to Unlocking the Full Potential of Bio-oil

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10 Mar 2020 - When two become one – the structures created when two droplets combine

Researchers use novel method of observation to explore the delicate science of mixing liquids …

24 Jul 2020 - UNIQ opportunity to learn about Engineering at Oxford goes virtual

55 state school students took part in online lectures, site visits and admissions workshops…

07 Dec 2021 - Oxford researchers present new technique to probe fusion reactor armour at the nano-scale

Dr Nick Phillips and Prof Felix Hofmann, in an international collaboration, use a new technique called Bragg Ptychography to examine the nano-scale defects responsible for material degradation in future fusion reactors.…

10 Dec 2021 - Tracking endangered sea turtles with hardware the size of a pound coin

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07 Feb 2022 - First-in-human implant of a “closed-loop” bioelectronic research system for investigating treatments for brain disorders

Researchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in Parkinson’s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA)…

03 Aug 2018 - Sixth-formers get a Headstart in Engineering

In July, the department hosted 38 sixth-form students from schools across the UK as part of the Headstart Broad-Based Engineering programme.…

23 Jan 2019 - Famous freak wave recreated in laboratory mirrors Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’

A team of researchers based at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have recreated for the first time the famous Draupner freak wave measured in the North Sea in 1995.…

26 Feb 2019 - Visual Data Project recognised for its real-world impact

Software developed in our Information Engineering Group is supercharging research across academia and industry – and its young creator has been recognised for the real-world impact of his research.…

05 Jul 2019 - Researchers uncover secrets behind the dynamics of splashing

Splashes are a fact of life, as anyone with children will know. But they’re much more of an issue for inkjet printers, especially when printing circuit boards. For the first time, a team of researchers has identified a way to predict how these splashes will happen – with big implications for the manufacturing sector.…

25 Sep 2019 - Can we track elephants using the vibrations of their footsteps?

by Ben Moseley, Alexandre Szenicer, Paula Koelemeijer, Michael Reinwald, Tarje Nissen-Meyer and Beth Mortimer…

20 May 2020 - Bringing Order to Disorder in Liquid Crystals

Researchers at the Department of Engineering Science have found a new way to guide the topological defects of liquid crystals using lasers …

12 Jun 2020 - Reprogrammable cells may be the future of cancer treatment

Researchers have created ‘SimCells’, a new synthetic cell which can be reprogrammed for a range of applications.…

25 Feb 2021 - SKA Observatory (SKAO) to build world’s largest radio telescope

Researchers at Oxford e-Research Centre contributing to telescope’s image domain processing capabilities and enhancing science reach of the project…

13 May 2021 - X-rays and Simulations shed light on how fusion reactor armour changes under irradiation

Researchers from the Department of Engineering Science and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy capture the structural evolution of tungsten due to intense irradiation.…

25 May 2021 - Floating ocean plastic can get a boost to its wave-induced transport because of its size

Joint team from the Universities of Oxford, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Auckland and TU Delft have investigated how waves transport floating ocean debris including the effects of an object’s size, buoyancy, and inertia on its transport…

14 Jun 2021 - AI endoscopy enables 3D surface measurements of pre-cancerous condition in oesophagus

Clinicians and engineers in Oxford using Artificial Intelligence alongside endoscopy to determine patients most at risk of developing cancer…

24 Sep 2021 - Human mobility patterns influence how we experience income segregation in cities

Income segregation is not just restricted to residential neighborhoods; it is part of the places we visit every day.…

08 Oct 2021 - Dr Heba Sailem wins international award for work on gene functions

Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow Dr Heba Sailem wins the Early Bioinformatician Award at the Basel Computational Biology Conference.…

11 Feb 2022 - Formula 1 scholarships for undergraduates from under-represented backgrounds

Oxford Engineering students Fabbiha and Sean awarded scholarships covering tuition costs and a living stipend in the inaugural year of the Formula 1 scholarship programme…

15 Apr 2022 - Automated assessment of pathology image quality

The new Oxford-developed artificial intelligence tool PathProfiler automates the quality control of large retrospective pathology image datasets to increase their usability in downstream research.…

17 May 2022 - Welcome to new Departmental Lecturers in the Oxford e-Research Centre, Chemical and Civil Engineering, and leading the OU Formula Student team

Four new Departmental Lecturers, Drs Karel Adámek (Scientific Computing), Binjian Nie (Chemical), Vincenzo Nardelli (Geotechnical) and Ryan Walker (Formula Student) started at the Department in Spring 2022…

11 Jul 2022 - New residential programme gives GCSE students taste of engineering at Oxford

34 participants joined the Uncover Engineering programme to learn about engineering careers, try out some of the workshops and subjects they would experience as an undergraduate engineer, and stay in an Oxford college…

30 Aug 2022 - Six academics receive the title of Full Professor in Recognition of Distinction Awards

The title of professor is awarded to those who have made contributions to leadership, teaching and research within the University and within their affiliated department and/or colleges.…

03 Feb 2023 - New multidisciplinary project will help address critical gaps in understanding about where and when deadly disease outbreaks are likely to occur

DART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools) is one of 24 Wellcome-supported projects that will use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks…

07 Mar 2023 - New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in secure communications by developing an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden…

09 Mar 2023 - University of Oxford makes joint appointment of Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering and ZERO Institute Director

Professor Paul Shearing will lead the new Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford (ZERO) Institute and bring extensive experience in electrochemical engineering to the University’s response to the urgent need for system level change in the energy sector…

26 Jan 2018 - Centre launches follow-on project from Transforming Musicology collaboration

A new follow-on project from the 4 year AHRC-funded Transforming Musicology has started…

25 Feb 2021 - SKA Observatory (SKAO) to build world’s largest radio telescope

Researchers at Oxford e-Research Centre contributing to telescope’s image domain processing capabilities and enhancing science reach of the project…

09 Mar 2021 - Precision Toxicology project launched with €19.3M funding

Building a FAIR Data Commons to explore the science, and shape policy and regulation aimed at protecting human health from effects of harmful chemicals…

03 Aug 2022 - Digital Humanities Summer School returns to Oxford

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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)"…

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

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19 Jun 2019 - Crowdfunding campaign is your chance to help bring clean drinking water to the developing world

A team at the University of Oxford is calling for donations to a project that aims to provide reliable access to drinking water for communities in rural Africa – using ‘smart handpump’ technology developed by a former student here.…

11 Jul 2019 - 'Digital Delius' project wins Vice-Chancellor's Public Engagement and JCDL Awards

Collaboration between the Faculty of Music and Engineering Science's Oxford e-Research Centre…

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.…

14 Jul 2020 - Design of insect-inspired fans offers wide-ranging applications

Multidisciplinary effort between engineers and evolutionary biologists from Japan and the UK…

13 Oct 2020 - Oxford placements go virtual for three students from Centrale Nantes engineering school

Three French students joined the Department virtually this year to work on projects relating to in-networking computing and AI for healthcare, working with leading academics…

12 Dec 2020 - AI test rules out a COVID-19 diagnosis within one hour in Emergency Departments

Artificial Intelligence test has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19…

10 Feb 2022 - Dr Romao receives Doctoral Dissertation Prize

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

12 May 2022 - Results of Research Excellence Framework 2021 published

In Unit of Assessment 12, 71% of Oxford’s submission was judged to be 4* (the highest score available, for research quality that is world-leading)…

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. …

22 Oct 2019 - An Integrated Resource Recovery Strategy to Promote Circular Economy in the Community

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18 Jul 2020 - A systems thinking approach to stimulating and enhancing resource efficiency and circularity in households

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01 Jun 2023 - SYNERGORS Publishes Report on Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management in Malaysia

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16 Sep 2021 - Amanda Matthes & Jonas Beuchert track sea turtles in Cape Verde to test new conservation technology

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17 Nov 2021 - Clinical AI Researchers Win IET Healthcare Technologies Award

Dr Andrew P. Creagh and Dr Lei Lu were credited for work developing artificial intelligence strategies for patient monitoring in healthcare settings…

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…

20 Oct 2021 - We are ignoring the true cost of water-guzzling data centres

Article by Masaō Ashtine, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford and David Mytton, Imperial College London.…

14 Apr 2021 - Dynamic Robot Systems Group at ICRA 2021 Conference

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28 Jul 2021 - New paper on arXiv studies the entropy of graph structures

"Structural Complexity of One-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs" studies the compression limits of 1D random geometric graph structures (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13495)…

08 Aug 2019 - Self-Driving Cars: How Close Are We Really? (without the hype)

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