OTI had a strong presence at the IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. The community centre in Blackbird Leys was transformed into a hub of talks, demonstrations and activities. The programme of talks, aimed at families, began with a tour of the real-world alternatives to the technology seen in the movie The Black Panther. OTI’s [...]
OTI Featured Researcher Series OTI: Lovely to have you here today, can you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your research? Gladys Ngetich: My name is Gladys C Ngetich. I am a Rhodes scholar and a PhD student at the Oxford Thermofluids Institute. I was born and raised in Kenya. [...]
Dr Neil Ashton of the Oxford ThermoFluids Institute (OTI) is the chair and lead organiser of the 10th international conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in Barcelona from 9-13 July 2018. ICCFD, the International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, is a leading international conference devoted to all innovative aspects of Computational Fluid [...]
Despite improvements in our ability to manipulate ever-smaller volumes using microfluidics, the technology remains inaccessible to many biologists as it often requires complex manufacturing facilities (such as soft lithography) and uses materials foreign to cell biology (such as polydimethylsiloxane). Scientists at the University of Oxford – in the Department of Engineering Science and The Dunn [...]
The Royal Aeronautical Society is the world’s only professional body serving the Aerospace community. The Oxford Branch of the society was formed in June 2003 and includes local universities and RAF stations as well as local organisations involved in rotorcraft, space, and motor racing R&D. On Tuesday 15 May, at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Oxford [...]
Dr Priyanka Dhopade from OTI is excited to tell us about the inaugural Women in Engineering Symposium at the Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. This event coordinated by Dr Dhopade, was held on the 1st May and arranged by the Women in Engineering Oxford network. The aims of the day included networking, discussions [...]
We are excited to announce that Gladys Ngetich, a DPhil student and Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford Thermofluids Institute has received the ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award (YETEP). This award is intended to support young engineers or engineering students in gas turbine (or related fields) with travel funding to attend the [...]
A fluid-shaping technology developed by engineers and scientists from the Oxford Thermofluids Institute, Department of Engineering Science and The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology resulted in the spin out company iotaSciences. iotaSciences received the New Product Award at SLAS2018 in recognition of their innovative and portable benchtop single-cell instrument. The isoCell, which was [...]
Collaborative microfluidics research between Oxford engineers and biologists has won the best poster award at the 4Bio Summit - 3rd Microfluidics Congress - in London. A research collaboration between Engineering Sciences, the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Iota Sciences (a University of Oxford spin-out company) is developing a transformative approach to manipulating tiny [...]
Oxford Thermofluids Institute’s Dr. Neil Ashton is launching a public lecture series, for non-academics to gain insights into research at Oxford! Neil is organising this series under the banner of the Oxford University’s Sparks LIVE talks. Having spent 5 months working as a visiting scholar at NASA Ames Research Centre in 2016, he was [...]
