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Nanoscience at forefront of collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Nanoscience at forefront of collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Professor Mark Welland

Over the past 3 years, Professor Mark Welland has been working closely with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) to establish a long term relationship which has now come to fruition.

The quality of research students and the new facilities at IIT Bombay provide for a world leading platform on which to establish a long term and truly reciprocal research relationship with IITB.

Professor Mark Welland

Cambridge and IITB have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and their first collaboration agreement which focuses on Nanoscience. On the Cambridge side the collaboration is primarily between the Department of Engineering and the Department of Materials Science with Professor Mark Welland and Dr Ashwin Seshia the leads for Engineering and Professor Alan Windle the lead for Materials Science.

Under the agreement, funding will be made available for ten students to pursue three-year PhD courses at Cambridge through the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. In addition there will be support travel by senior academic staff between the two partnering universities.

Professor Welland commented:
"The quality of research students and the new facilities at IIT Bombay provide for a world leading platform on which to establish a long term and truly reciprocal research relationship with IITB."

The MOU, which was signed by Professor Alan Windle on behalf of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard, and IIT Bombay Director Professor Ashok Misra, paves the way for numerous future research collaborations.

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