Dr. Justin Sperling gave an invited talk entitled ‘Plasmonic tastebuds for the optical assessment of drinking water’ as part of the Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment, and Environmental Applications during SPIE BiOS 2024 in San Francisco. The talk focused on his most recent publication as part of the Decentralise Water Technologies project. …
Dr Baptiste Poursat was awarded an IAA led by RA grant of £20,000, in collaboration with Scottish Water and SepSolve Analytical. The project is entitled “Translating volatilome-based biomarkers from biomedical disease detection to environmental biotechnology system monitoring” and aims to develop a new volatile organic compounds (VOCs) based analytical method to detect early warning indicator …
On the 30th January 2024 Dr Elizabeth Lawson curated an online session on Water and Wastewater as part of the Scottish Rural and Islands Parliament (SRIP) online programme. The event was attended by over 40 individuals and organisations from across Scotland, and included a presentation from the Tighnabruaich Primary School and a Q&A session from …
Dr Pritam Das has won the EPSRC IAA innovation competition of £2500. He will be using this amount to prototype a visible light guided self-cleaning device under lab scale Sun light simulator. More information about the EPSRC IAA competition
Explore the pioneering work of Research Fellow Marta Vignola, as she harnesses sustainable, biology-based techniques to purify drinking water. Her mission is to advance these technologies to ensure safe drinking water is accessible to all. Watch the video here (First published: 27 October 2023) at University of Glasgow’s communication hub.
We are pleased to publish the second annual report for the EPSRC Programme Grant in Decentralised Water Technologies. Please click on this link to access the PDF: EPSRC Decentralised Water Technologies – Annual Report 2023 – Year 2