A massive congratulations to all of our winners and a big thank you to everyone who presented or attended our #ECRShowcase today. Full professional photos from our event will be published early next week!
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📢 #ECRShowcase: The Results: And finally, we are delighted to announce the First Prize winner as chosen by our judges Congratulations to Alejandro Hermida Carrillo from the Imperial Business School 🥇👏👏👏 #ECRShowcase
📢 #ECRShowcase: The Results: Next up is our Second Prize winner as chosen by our judges Congratulations to Alberto Bodas Gallego from the Department of Aeronautics 🥈👏👏👏 #ECRShowcase
📢 #ECRShowcase: The Results: And now we have our Third Prize winner as chosen by our judges Congratulations to Hendrik Beck from the Department of Bioengineering 🥉👏👏👏 #ECRShowcase
📢 ECR Showcase: The Results: Next up is our People's Choice Prize winner as voted for by visitors to the event! Congratulations to Sepideh Albari from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 🏆👏👏👏 #ECRShowcase
🚨 The #ECRShowcase results are in! First up: our Creativity Prize winners 🪄 Congratulations to: 🎖️Afraa Alzoubi Department of Bioengineering 🎖️Mario Miranda Department of Aeronautics 🎖️Sumesh Erikandath Dep of Civil & Environmental Engineering 🎖️Alexandra Yarger Department of Bioengineering
Our keynote speech is underway with Dr Gbemi Oluleye, Associate Professor in Sustainable Market Mechanisms, delivering her talk ‘‘The 3 C’s for Impact” to a lively audience
Nearly set for the #ECRShowcase Join us in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building Mezzanine from 10.30am for the open exhibition
Applications are open for the Imperial-Science Tokyo Global Fellows Programme! 🌍 📅 07 - 11 Sept 2026 📍 London This is a chance to challenge yourself outside of your normal working environment, meet people from other disciplines and cultures, & have fun! ▶️ ecri.short.gy/tokyo-gfp (apply by 06 May)
On 4 February, ECRI hosted our inaugural guest lecture with Professor Sir Bashir M. Al Hashimi CBE, who delivered a thought-provoking talk on The Role of Humans in Scientific Discovery in the Age of LLMs. Further information and a link to view the session can be found here: tinyurl.com/ecriGL
Applications are open for the Imperial-AIMS Global Fellows Programme 2026! 🌍 📅 01 -05 June 2026 📍 Accra, Ghana This is a chance to challenge yourself outside of your normal working environment, meet people from other disciplines and cultures, & have fun! ▶️ ecri.short.gy/aims-gfp (apply by 27 Jan)
Are you researching climate science and solutions at Imperial? Take part in the Climate Research Showcase! Present your research, host a workshop and connect with climate experts from across college working to advance multidisciplinary climate research and action. ow.ly/RC6w50XHj4a
Photos from our winter celebration are now available on the Imperial Asset Library 📸 Use the link below to log in with your Imperial details and see the photo gallery 👇 asset-library.imperial.ac.uk/assetbank-im...
Students and early career researchers based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: there's only one week to go to apply for the Green Innovation Challenge! A unique 5-week programme delivered w/ @ukceh.bsky.social ➡️ undaunted-hq.org/programmes/c... @granthamicl.bsky.social @imperialecri.bsky.social
This week saw 170 early career researchers join the ECRI Winter Celebration 🎉 Our ECR community came to together to socialise with others from across the University and enjoy dancing led by a live ceilidh band! 📸 Here’s a sneak peek of the photographs from the event – full gallery coming soon 👇
A reminder that our ECRI Winter Celebration and Ceilidh starts at 5pm! 🥳 We look forward to seeing you and your guests there 💃🕺🎄
Calling @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social research supervisors. Want to upskill and share best practices in PhD supervision? Learn about our @imperialecri.bsky.social Peer Mentoring Circles! www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
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📣 The Able Network and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust I-CAN Network are teaming up to host a series of events celebrating Disability History Month, including a coffee morning, therapy dog session and workshops. Find out more and sign up 👇 bit.ly/47Acqrz Able Network 👉 bit.ly/4p1t5Kg
Are you an undergraduate, master's, PhD student or postdoc currently at Imperial College London? Then the Green Innovation Challenge is for you! Join our webinar to learn key details: 📅 25 Nov ⏰ 15.00-16.30 💻 Online 🎫 Register (you'll need Imperial credentials): www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20128...
🎉 Last week the Imperial Women’s PhD Network launched with a networking event connecting students from across Imperial. Committee members also presented an exhibit titled 'Women of Light' at Imperial Lates, celebrating women in light science. www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
📣We’re kick-starting the winter celebration season with our annual ceilidh for Imperial's postdocs, fellows and PhD students! Join us on Tuesday 2 December for this free event 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/wKN4mnAUek
The photographs from the ECRI Awards are available on the Imperial Asset Library 🥳 Search '"ECRI Awards and Celebration - September 2025" for the full collection 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/communicatio...
On the eve of PM Keir Starmer’s India visit, Imperial College London announced funding for 10 UK–India research collaborations tackling global challenges 🌍 Congrats to our Postdoc and Fellows Champions Prof Rafael Calvo & Dr Claudia Contini who are 2 of the recipients!🎉 More here👇 bit.ly/4mWagqz
That's a wrap for #PAW2025 🎉! We want to end this week with a shout out to our incredible Postdoc and Fellows Reps Network. The initiatives, events and support they provide for ECRs in their department is invaluable 🌟 Find out who your postdoc rep is here 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
Our postdoc and fellows community have been making new, inter-department connections at our #PAW2025 community lunches 🧑🔬👩🔬
🥁 The winners of the ECRI Awards 2025 can be found in the thread below! 🥇 A huge congratulations to the winners 👏. We'll be sharing more about the incredible efforts and positive impact all our nominees have made to those around them and the research culture here at Imperial 🌟 #ECRIAwards #PAW2025
👀 #ECRIAwards starting soon on the South Kensington Campus ... We look forward to seeing you there and announcing the winners! 🏆 #PAW2025
Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🥳 We're looking forward to celebrating with our postdoc community throughout the week 🎉
📣 Our new website is live! 🥳 Take a look to explore who we support and how 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
The @imperialecri.bsky.social at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is now recruiting for Programme Partners: early career researchers from PhD students to postdocs and fellows who would be willing to work with us to shape the design and delivery of our programmes. www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
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The Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI) is pleased to introduce the Early Career Researchers as Partners initiative, which gives Doctoral studen...
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