Andrew Marsden, CEO of Immaterial, courtesy Nathan Pitt
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in learning how new inventions are commercialised have until 6 March to apply for the i-Teams Easter programme.
I-Teams members work for a term with students from across the University and a dedicated industry mentor. They investigate the commercial potential of a real Cambridge invention, gaining hands-on business skills and experience. Past i-Teams projects include Raspberry Pi, AQDOT, Cambridge CMOS Sensors, Sphere Fluidics, Cambridge Nanosystems, Immaterial Labs and many others.
The programme lasts for a term and includes regular group sessions, team meetings and individual work. i-Teams present their final recommendations to a business and academic audience at the end of the term. Projects run on Monday evenings with a first session on Monday March 14th, and then weekly from April 18th with a final presentation session on Thursday June 16th.
The Easter Term projects include:
1. Investigating the best applications for a unique flexible monochrome liquid crystal display, with Chris Williamson, Electrical Engineering
2. Understanding the market for a novel approach to imaging brain activity in 3D, with Professor Thansis Fokas, DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
3. Identifying the best markets for a new form of graphene-like carbon, with Dr. Simon Thomas & Dr. Ivor Guiney, Materials Science & Metallurgy
Andrew Marsden, a graduate student in this department, was a member of the original i-Team that worked on the MOFs (metal-organic framework materials) technology in the Michaelmas 2014 term. Andrew is now CEO of Immaterial, which was one of the winners of the first business plan competition for postdocs in 2015, run as a collaboration between Cambridge Enterprise and the Entrepreneurial PostDocs of Cambridge society.
To find out more about i-Teams and to apply, visit www.iteamsonline.org.
Applications should be made no later than SUNDAY MARCH 6th.
Applications are welcomed from post-graduates, postdocs and 4th year undergraduates, as well as from all members of CUTEC and CUE.
For further information, contact Amy Weatherup
Visiting Industrial Fellow, Cambridge Computer Lab
Director, i-Teams Programme, Institute for Manufacturing
Email: am678@cam.ac.uk