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See our staff and students, below, talking about their work here in the department. Or view these videos, along with others, on the Cambridge Chemistry YouTube Channel.

Fun time lapse of BMS filling up for Dr Wothers lecture

Developing artificial leaves for carbon-neutral syngas production

Find out how Professor Erwin Reisner in collaboration is working with researchers in Chemical Engineering, Physics and the Henry Royce Institute to convert sunlight to sustainable fuels.

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, Falling Walls Foundation 2022

Breaking the wall to ultra-fast genome sequencing

Dr Peter Wothers' Cambridge Festival Lecture 2021

How the elements got their names

Gates Scholar Akhila Denduluri on why she chose Cambridge

 

Plants have Superpowers!

 

The Quest to Eliminate Plastic Waste

Watch how our researchers are working towards eliminating plastic waste and its effects on the environment.

 

Supporting Chemistry Postgrads

As part of their training, our PhD students take part in a Showcase Week where they develop their science communication skills through presenting posters and giving public talks about their research. It's a challenge – but an important one, as they explain here.

 

Why Chemistry is NOT for everyone!

Only people who like fire, loud bangs and making their own ice cream without a freezer should become Chemists. Watch our video to discover if YOU could be one of them!

 

Becoming a postgrad Chemistry student

Find out what it's like becoming a postgraduate (PhD or MPhil) Chemistry student at Cambridge.

 

Hear us in action

Here you can listen to recent podcasts and audio recordings.

On BBC Radio 4's The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread – a programme challenging products’ bold claims with scientific evidence – Professor Melinda Duer talks to science presenter Greg Foot about the science behind collagen face creams.

 

Dr Peter Wothers talks about the Periodic Table on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme (18/3/19 at 7:24am), and celebrates 150 au years with The Naked Scientists.

 

Our alumnus Sir Gregory Winter, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, describes how he came to invent a new class of drugs, currently worth $70 billion a year, in this episode of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

 

Student Amy King, who is conducting her PhD jointly between the Department of Chemistry and the British Antarctic Survey, tells the BBC about the difficulties of drilling ice-cores on the remote sub-Antarctic island of Bouvet while looking for particular organic compounds that could serve as a proxy for past sea-ice conditions.

 

Hear Professor John Pyle FRS tell the BBC World Service why there is good news about the ozone hole. (The interview starts 26:30 into the programme.) 

 

Hear Dr Alex Thom as he joins The Naked Scientists to talk about The Chemistry of Wine.

 

On BBC Radio 4, Professor Clare Grey discusses her work in developing next-generation batteries in The Big Battery Challenge, an episode of The Life Scientific.

 

With The Naked Scientists, Dr Gonçalo Bernardes talks about The Nerve Cells that Control Obesity.

 

Dame Carol Robinson describes her journey from leaving school at 16 to becoming the first female Professor of Chemistry at both Oxford and Cambridge University on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

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