Tonight we welcome leading figures across the University of Liverpool, who will be reflecting upon research over the last decade, and looking what the future holds......
Speaker information and talk running order
1) Speaker: Professor Kate Black - School of Engineering
Kate is a Professor of Manufacturing in the Department of Materials, Design and Manufacturing, School of Engineering.
She was recently made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the sector.
Talk
Transforming 3d Printing: A Solution-Focused Approach to Global Innovation
In a previous LivWiSE lecture, Kate and a panel discussed ‘what’s the future of 3D Printing technology?’ (aka Additive Manufacturing).
Now in 2024, this talk looks at how 3D printing has evolved to become a huge part of global innovation.
2) Speaker: Professor Jude Curran - School of Engineering
Jude is the Head of Department of Materials, Design and Manufacturing, School of Engineering.
In addition to this, Jude leads growing activity in Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials (including Soft Matter), Anti-microbial Materials and Pre-clinical testing regimes within the department.
Talk
NANO: Nano Advances = New Opportunities in Bioengineering
In her last LivWiSE talk Jude Curran was a Lecturer in Tissue Engineering and presented how her research had proven that cells and components within the human body sense and
respond to stimulus at the sub-micron and nano scale. 10 years on Professor Curran is now a Professor of Engineering and Head of Department of Materials, Design and Manufacturing Engineering.
In this talk she will discuss how her team and network of international collaborators have used this knowledge to design and manufacture new directly implantable materials capable of generating nerve, bone, and cartilage tissue.
Furthermore, she will present a new cost-effective label free real time technology for tracking nano entities through complex biological and synthetic environments. This technology the potential to revolutionise pre-clinical screening technologies for new therapeutics and antimicrobial materials.
3) Speaker: Professor Janine Kavanagh - School of Environmental Sciences
Janine is the Chair of Volcanology within the Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences. Her research combines field studies with analogue and numerical models to gain insight into the ascent and emplacement of magmas.
Janine founded the University of Liverpool's MAGMA Lab for the study of volcanic plumbing systems in 2014.
Talk
Cracking Volcanoes - 10 years on
In this talk Janine will take us on a journey through the plumbing system of a volcano, sharing some of the latest research findings from the Liverpool MAGMA Lab and reflecting on how our understanding of the geophysical processes of magma movement, and how these are preserved in the geological record, have changed over the past ten years.
4) Speaker: Professor Anna Slater - Department of Chemistry
Anna is a materials chemist, whose research group is based between the Department of Chemistry and the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool.
Her research interests include molecular materials, enabling technology/automation, and organic synthesis and self-assembly.
Talk
Building with molecules - with the help of technology – 10 years on
At the Christmas Lecture in 2014 Anna presented about the challenges and opportunities when trying to build structures out of extremely small things. This talk will take a look at how this has changed, 10 years on.
5) Speaker: Department of Physics: Dr Helen Hayward
Helen is a senior researcher within the Department of Physics.
Talk
Illuminating Dark Matter - 10 years on
Since the confirmation of dark matter in 1970, scientists have been trying to measure and explain this mysterious substance.
In this talk, a brief summary of search for dark matter in the last 10 years will be presented.
6) Speaker: Professor Laura Harkness-Brennan - Department of Physics
Laura is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Associate pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Impact for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Laura was recently awarded the European Physical Society (EPS) Nuclear Physics Division Prize for Applied Nuclear Physics.
Talk
Next generation gamma ray imaging
Gamma ray imaging is a technique used to visualise and analyse objects or processes by detecting gamma rays, which are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. In this talk Laura share ways in which gamma-rays can be imaged using state of the art radiation detectors.