News

Two new postdocs for the team!

17 January 2025

In addition to several new students and visiting collaborators, two new postdocs have joined the Driscoll group to work on neuromorphic materials and devices! Dr Seb Dixon joins the group having spent the first few years of his postdoctoral work as a scientist in industry, working on metal oxide and 2D material crystal...

Judith gives invited talk on Neuromorphic Computing at Innovate UK

3 December 2024

Judith was pleased to attend and give an invited talk at the Innovate UK event on “Future Computing Technologies and Energy Efficient Computation: Neuromorphic Computing", in London (King’s College Institute of Health Engineering). The importance of this growing field was confirmed by the many speakers and government...

Markus at International Electrotechnical Commission as UK expert on Neuromorphic Computing

25 November 2024

Markus had the privilege of serving as the designated UK expert on Neuromorphic Computing for the British Standards Institution at the International Electrotechnical Comission meeting in London. Work is ongoing to compile an international technical report on neuromorphic device measurements.

NeuCam to work with UK network grant NeuMat!

26 September 2024

We are very happy to announce a new UK network grant on "Neuromorphic Materials and Devices for Future AI Hardware”, which we call Neumat. It was awarded to the Driscoll group, as well as to Adnan Mehonic (UCL), Giuliana Di Martino (Cambridge), Alex Serb (Edinburgh). We call our network grant NeuMat. We have a number of...

Translational funging for Dr Hellenbrand and Prof. Driscoll for technology de-risking

13 September 2024

Dr Hellenbrand and Prof. Driscoll were awarded translational funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Technology Investment Fund to take their technology, demonstrated in the lab, closer to commercialisation. The funding is for nearly two years and will help to de-risk the technology, which was demonstrated in the lab. At the...

Markus at ChipStartUK event

13 June 2024

Dr Markus Hellenbrand attended the cohort 1 showcase event of the ChipStartUK programme, which supports tech start-ups on their journey all the way from before corporation to obtaining investments. He talked to some of the organisers, advisors, and investors, as well as to IMEC representative, to gather ideas and...

Markus and Thomas pitch their technologies to commercialisation panels

30 April 2024

Thomas Sun and Dr Markus Hellenbrand from the Driscoll group pitched their technologies - spatial ALD Nanoprint Technologies and resistive switching - to a panel of industry partners organised by the MATcelerate initiative . Both technologies have the potential for a large impact on a more sustainable technological future!

Ji Soo and Markus represent Driscoll group at MRS 2024 Spring Meeting

26 April 2024

Ji Soo Kim and Dr Markus Hellenbrand from the Driscoll group presented their research at the MRS 2024 Spring Meeting in Seattle . Markus was an invited speaker and featured as an MRS Communications Early Career Distinguished Presenter! They also met for breakfast with our long-standing collaborators Prof. Quanxi Jia from...

Prof Driscoll talk at Loughborough University neurmorphic conference

19 March 2024

Loughborough University are organising a prestigious conference to discuss the future of neuromorphic technology and artificial intelligence in the UK . Prof. Driscoll is invited as a speaker and will give a presentation on 26 Mar at the event.

Neuromorphic workshop at Trinity College

5 February 2024

We were happy to host a Neuromorphic workshop at Trinity College, Cambridge. Our invited speakers, Prof. Bilge Yidiz and Prof. Adnan Mehonic gave excellent talks on their latest research. Dr. Dip Das , a postdoc working with Adnan, and our group members also gave updates on their work.