Below you will find a summary of all projects available for the internship programme this year. A full list with project outlines is available here
For any informal queries regarding the projects, please contact the supervisor listed. Each project on the PDF file has a link to a relevant contacts page.
For other queries relating to the internship programme please contact steminterns@admin.cam.ac.uk
Institute of Astronomy
| Supervisor | Avishai Gilkis |
| Project Title | Populations of helium stars in the Local Group |
| Key Words | helium star evolution, stellar populations |
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
| Supervisor | Ewa Marek |
| Project Title | CO2 capture with nanomaterials |
| Key Words | CO2 capture, energy, nanomaterials, experiments |
Department of Chemistry
| Supervisor | Alexander Forse |
| Project Title | The electrolyte design of Zn-ion capacitors for electrochemical carbon capture |
| Key Words | Energy Storage; Carbon Capture; Electrochemistry; Materials Chemistry; Technology |
| Supervisor | Ruth Webster |
| Project Title | C–O Activation for C–N Bond Formation |
| Key Words | Homogeneous catalysis, inorganic/organic synthesis, mechanisms |
| Supervisor | Svetlana Menkin |
| Project Title | How do electrolyte properties determine battery energy, power, and cyclability? |
| Key Words | battery, electrolytes, spectroscopy, lithium, dielectric constant |
| Supervisor | Jenny Zhang |
| Project Title | Pyrolyzed 3D Carbon Electrode for Biophotovoltaic Devices |
| Key Words | pyrolysis, carbon, biophotovoltaic, electrochemistry, 3D printing |
| Supervisor | Pawel Dydio |
| Project Title | Summer Internship In the Organic Chemistry Laboratory |
| Key Words | organic synthesis, homogenous catalysis, transition-metal complexes, reaction development, mechanistic understanding |
Computer Science and Technology
| Supervisor | Jamie Vicary |
| Project Title | Rust Programming for a New Proof Assistant |
| Key Words | Programming, rust, web programming, category theory |
| Supervisor | Soumya Banerjee |
| Project Title | Using large language models for reasoning on visual tasks |
| Key Words | machine learning, human-like computation, reasoning and abstraction in machines, large language models |
| Supervisors | Guy Laban, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes |
| Project Title | Detecting Mood Change and Loneliness in Human-Robot Conversation |
| Key Words | Human-robot interaction, machine learning, deep learning, affective computing, mental health |
| Supervisors | Hatice Gunes and Guy Laban |
| Project Title | Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with Affective Computing Skills |
| Key Words | Large Language models, affective computing, AI, machine learning, computer vision |
| Supervisor | Roly Perera |
| Project Title | Fluid: A Programming Language for Transparent, Self-Explanatory Research Outputs |
| Key Words | programming languages; program analysis; climate science; transparency; data visualisation |
| Supervisor | Tobias Grosser |
| Project Title | Neural Network to WASM Compiler |
| Key Words | Compilers, WebAssembly, Machine Learning, WebGPU |
Engineering
| Supervisor | Tzia Ming Onn |
| Project Title | Flexible Self-healing Ion Gel Battery |
| Key Words | Energy Storage, Solid State, Ion Gel, Stability, Self-healing |
| Supervisor | Holger Babinsky |
| Project Title | High-speed Flow Measurement Equipment Controls |
| Key Words | measurement technology, matlab, data acquisition, control, aerodynamics |
| Supervisor | Amparo Güemes Gonzalez |
| Project Title | Unification of codebases for biosignal processing and development of interactive interface using Python |
| Key Words | Coding, signal processing, python, graphical user interface, signal visualisation |
| Supervisor | Rachel Thorley |
| Project Title | Climate resilient schools: smart building monitoring and outreach. |
| Key Words | Decarbonisation, Energy Efficiency, Smart sensors, Data, Outreach |
| Supervisor | Letizia Mortara |
| Project Title | Effects of virtual reality and AI deployment in scenario planning |
| Key Words | VR, AI, AR, Scenario planning, Programming, Experiments, Interviews |
| Supervisor | Thomas Bohné |
| Project Title | Using Mobile Augmented Reality for Guiding Multicopter Drone Attachment to Payload |
| Key Words | multicopter drone, augmented reality, AR, mobile AR, drone-to-payload attachment |
| Supervisor | Thomas Bohné |
| Project Title | Using Augmented Reality and Gestural Input to Operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Key Words | drones, augmented reality, AR, drone control, gestural input |
| Supervisor | Thomas Bohné |
| Project Title | Using Augmented Reality to Guide Manual Assembly of Origami Robots |
| Key Words | origami robotics, augmented reality, AR, computer vision, edge computing |
| Supervisors | Fumiya Iida, Yue Xie |
| Project Title | Large-scale experiment and fluid dynamic simulation of the falling paper problem |
| Key Words | Emergent behavior, robot design, falling paper, fluid mechanics, machine learning |
| Supervisor | Fumiya Iida |
| Project Title | Soft Robotic Walking Fish |
| Key Words | robotics, bioinspiration, locomotion, soft material, underwater |
| Supervisor | Fumiya Iida |
| Project Title | Robotic Interpretation of Sheet Music for Piano Playing |
| Key Words | Piano playing robot, sheet music, robotic interpretation, robot control, coordinated keystrokes |
Department of Geography
| Supervisor | Michael Bravo |
| Project Title | Curriculum Development for Sustainability for the Third Pole Cryosphere Region |
| Key Word | SDGs, Third Pole, Geography, Curriculum Development |
Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
| Supervisor | Larissa Gomes Franca |
| Project Title | Colour-tuneable upconversion emission via triplet-triplet annihilation |
| Key Word | colour-tuneability, photon upconversion, triplet-triplet annihilation, sensitizer materials, optical spectroscopy |
Faculty of Mathematics
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
| Supervisor | Adrien Lefauve |
| Project Title | Salt dispersion and mixing in estuaries: laboratory experiments |
| Key Word | estuaries, sea-level rise, turbulence, fluid dynamics, coastal engineering |
| Supervisor | Nuno Oliveira |
| Project Title | The evolution of microbial cooperation in space |
| Key Words | microbial communities, cross-feeding, cooperation, competition, motility |
| Supervisor | Angelica Aviles-Rivero |
| Project Title | From Theory to Treatment: Advancing Implicit Neural Representations for Healthcare |
| Key Words | Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Implicit Neural Representation |
| Supervisor | Amelia Drew |
| Project Title | Cosmic Strings and Boson Stars |
| Key Words | Cosmology, gravity, dark matter, fundamental fields, theoretical physics |
| Supervisors | Kasturi Shah and Peter Haynes |
| Project Title | The fluid dynamics of smoke-filled vortices in the stratosphere |
| Key Words | fluid dynamics, atmosphere, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computation |
| Supervisor | Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb |
| Project Title | Deep neural networks in physics-based inverse imaging problems |
| Key Words | Inverse problems, physics-informed neural networks, deep learning, learned reconstruction, learned regularisation |
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS)
| Supervisor | Varun Jog |
| Project Title | Inequalities between f-divergences |
| Key Words | f-divergence, hypothesis testing, inequalities |
Department of Physics
| Supervisor | Sarah Bohndiek |
| Project Title | Automatic Segmentation of Cells from Raman Spectroscopy Data |
| Key Words | Medical Imaging, Raman Spectroscopy, Deep Learning, Data Science, Cancer Biology |
| Supervisor | Nur Ünal |
| Project Title | Geometric and dynamical interpretation of topological invariants |
| Key Words | Topology, quantum mechanics, Chern number, ultracold quantum gases |
| Supervisor | Bo Peng |
| Project Title | Physical properties of carbon nanomaterials from supercomputer modelling |
| Key Words | electronic structures, density functional theory, fullerene |