Dr Martin Archer has won the Public Engagement Involve Award at the QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2019.

A Queen Mary cosmologist has been announced as a Future Leader Fellow as part of a new government initiative to give leading researchers an opportunity to deliver global impact.

Congratulations to Dr Anthony Phillips, who with Dr Helen Walker (ISIS) has been awarded £470k from EPSRC to study barocaloric framework materials. These materials can be cycled between high- and low-entropy states by applying pressure, and could therefore be environmentally friendly replacements for commonly used refrigerants (which are both greenhouse gases and ozone depletors). As part of this project, a 3-year postdoctoral research position is now available in Dr Phillips' group. For further information please see the full job listing (reference QMUL18871). Informal enquiries to a.e.phillips@qmul.ac.uk are most welcome. Applications are due by 19 June 2019.

The CRST invites applications from exceptional candidates for 4-year Stephen Hawking fellowships. This is a new UKRI advanced fellowship scheme involving a strong public-engagement component and a rolling deadline.

On Sept 12th, Prof T. Kajita, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate and Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, on behalf of the University of Tokyo, host lab of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment together with KEK, announced that the construction of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment will start in 2020 (https://www.interactions.org/press-release/hyper-kamiokande-experiment-begin-construction-april-2020).