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Read more at: Cavendish Big Science Colloquium Series

Cavendish Big Science Colloquium Series

3 February 2026

Colleagues at the Department of Physics are delighted to announce the launch of the Cavendish Big Science Colloquium Series , a new flagship Cavendish colloquium series designed to bring world-leading scientists to Cambridge across key research themes, including observational and theoretical cosmology, high-energy physics...

Read more at: Professor Anne-Christine Davis OBE named as Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor Anne-Christine Davis OBE named as Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

29 January 2026

KICC researcher and faculty member Professor Anne-Christine Davis is one of seven Cambridge researchers appointed as Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences. The inaugural cohort of 100 Fellows brings together the UK’s strongest mathematicians across academia, education, business, industry, and government to...

Read more at: ‘Death by a thousand cuts’: young galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies

‘Death by a thousand cuts’: young galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies

13 January 2026

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest ‘dead’ galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole can slowly starve a galaxy rather than tear it apart. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)...

Read more at: Professor Anne-Christine Davis OBE Shares in 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for Innovative Dark Sector Model

Professor Anne-Christine Davis OBE Shares in 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for Innovative Dark Sector Model

13 January 2026

Professor Anne-Christine Davis OBE, KICC Faculty member and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) has been awarded a 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize alongside an international team of collaborators. The prize (2nd place), announced on January 8, 2026 during the 247th...

Read more at: Professor Debora Sijacki Awarded RAS Eddington Medal

Professor Debora Sijacki Awarded RAS Eddington Medal

9 January 2026

Professor Debora Sijacki has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the role Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play in the evolution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the Universe. She pioneered the development of computational techniques and physical models to understand the complex interactions between...

Read more at: KICC researchers amongst winners of Phase 1 of the NeurIPS 2025 FairUniverse competition

KICC researchers amongst winners of Phase 1 of the NeurIPS 2025 FairUniverse competition

22 December 2025

We are delighted that an agent-driven team including KICC researchers got a first-place award at the Phase 1 of the NeurIPS 2025 FairUniverse competition . The team consisting of mainly PhD and MSc students, including Tom Borrett , Célia Lecat , Andy Nilipour , Sébastien Pierre , Licong Xu , advised by Boris Bolliet and...

Read more at: UK’s largest astronomy instrument begins journey to Chile

UK’s largest astronomy instrument begins journey to Chile

12 December 2025

The University of Cambridge – through the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology – has played a central role in the development of MOONS, the UK’s most complex astronomy instrument, now en route to Chile for installation on the Very Large Telescope. MOONS, the Multi-Object...

Read more at: Professor Blake Sherwin (KICC/DAMTP) awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

Professor Blake Sherwin (KICC/DAMTP) awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

12 December 2025

Blake Sherwin, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics in DAMTP, is one of eight University of Cambridge researchers sharing a total of €17 million in the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2025 award. The grants support mid-career researchers to carry out cutting-edge research projects lasting up to five...

Read more at: KICC Researcher Boris Bolliet amongst team that led development an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’

KICC Researcher Boris Bolliet amongst team that led development an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’

13 November 2025

KICC Researcher Boris Bollliet is amongst the team that led developed an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’ developed an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’ designed to accelerate the scientific process by helping them identify new research questions, analyse and interpret data, and produce scientific documents. The tool...

Read more at: KICC researcher Dr Miles Cranmer receives an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences.

KICC researcher Dr Miles Cranmer receives an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences.

11 November 2025

KICC researcher Dr Miles Cranmer is one of 28 researchers worldwide to receive an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences, awarded to researchers studying how to fulfil AI’s potential to benefit humankind. The fellows will pursue efforts to solve challenging problems in AI by building AI scientists, designing safer and...

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