Full details and meeting link: Imperial Fungal Science Network – Seminar Series 2026/ECR Talks
Event Details: Imperial Fungal Science Network | Seminar Series | ECR Talks
We warmly invite you to attend the Imperial Fungal Science Network Seminar on
🗓️ Thursday 19th February, 12:00 – 13:00
📍 G47 Flowers Building, South Kensington Campus, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ 3A on map
in-person (walk in; refreshments from 11:30am)
or online (via Teams)
no registration required
Discover opportunities to work together at the Entrepreneurship Cafe ☕️ – February 11, 1pm to 3pm
Meet potential co-founders, share your skills, and connect with others in a relaxed networking space — complete with a colour-coded name tag system to make introductions easier. Plus, there’ll be exciting prizes to be won throughout the event! 🎁
📅 Wednesday 11 February
🕒 1pm – 3pm
📍 Enterprise Lab, South Kensington Campus
Whether you’re exploring new ideas or already building something exciting, this is a great chance to make meaningful connections.
👉 Sign up here: imperialenterpriselab.com/events/entrepreneurship-cafe
🗓️ Sign-up deadline: 4 February 2025
You are invited to the 50th Annual Paviors’ Lecture, hosted at Imperial College London with The Worshipful Company of Paviors and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute.
In his keynote, Professor Girolami will explore how engineering is evolving to address major global challenges across infrastructure, sustainability, technology and society, and the growing role of data, measurement and digital approaches in shaping engineering practice.
Tuesday 10 February 2026
17.15 – 18.30 (GMT)
Lecture Theatre 164, Skempton Building, Imperial College London
Free, open to all
Register here: https://ImperialCEE.short.gy/9yw7VN
Special IAO Lunar New Year “Meet The Author” event: 🧧🌸🐎
Time Inheritance Mapping Workshop —How time shapes your decision-making and what you can do about it
Hosted by Imperial As One (IAO), sponsored by the Departments of Brain Sciences, and Immunology & Inflammation, supported by Library Services
Our next Meet The Author event will be on 28th Jan at South Kensington campus. Please join us at this special in-person lunch & workshop by Dr Cora Lingling Xu, Associate Professor, Durham University, exploring the idea of ‘time inheritance’ from her new book, The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China (SUNY Press 2025). In the workshop we will celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year and also explore the novel concept called ‘time inheritance’ to further understand social mobility.
IAO Lunar New Year “Meet The Author” with Dr Cora Lingling Xu
Date: Wednesday 28/01/2026
Time: 12:30-2pm (lunch provided)
Venue: 4.408, Abdus Salam Library, Campus, South Kensington Campus
Open to all Imperial students & staff, info & registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iao-special-lunar-new-year-meet-the-author-with-dr-cora-lingling-xu-tickets-1978159061002
We will explore the concept ‘time inheritance’, which reveals how individuals inherit different amounts and qualities of time at familial, national and international levels. It will explore how issues such as first-generation status, class, race/ethnicity and gender shape how we use time and our relationship with time. Lunch and some Lunar New Year snacks will be provided! Please register to attend.
All members of the ECRI community are invited to the upcoming Good Science Project events.
‘Security Science and Research Culture: Protecting What we Care About’.
Chaired by Professor Mary Ryan CBE, Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise). We will be debating the ways increased security spending will influence university research, and we have an eminent panel joining us. Friday Forums are congenial and edifying in-person discussions, with lunch included, where for a short hour we can step back from our busy lives, consider new perspectives, and meet colleagues from outside our normal circle.
Book your spot here
Made by Imperial early career researchers under the tuition of Good Science Project animator-in-residence Litza Jansz. Highly recommended to those of you interested in science communication, and the art-science interface. The event includes a screening, a panel discussion with the Imperial film makers, and a reception.
Book your spot here
‘Humanising Robotics: Can Machines Support a Life Well-Lived’.
Chaired by Dr Nejra Van Zalk, Dyson School of Design Engineering.
Book your spot here
On April 16th, we have our third Good Science Project research culture conference, this year called Failure in Science. It is co-convened by Professor Mary Ryan, our Vice-Provost and Dr Magdalena Skipper, editor of Nature, and will explore the many ways failure is part of the life of science and has aspects that are both personal and institutional. We will be considering the necessity of failure in science, and also the politics and the injustices of failure. Part of the day will include a scripted presentation by six early career researchers.
If you would like to help with this, be involved in writing the script, please contact Stephen Webster direct.
DrugSynthMC2.0: A Nested Monte Carlo Tree Search for the design of target-specific small molecules
Please note that from 17:00-18:00 a drinks reception will be held on the Level 2 Concourse, Blackett Building, SK Campus
Complete the short online form to register your place.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery. These technologies demonstrate the enormous potential of AI to accelerate research. Yet, they also signal a profound change in how research is conceived, conducted, and communicated, along with how doctoral students and researchers are supervised and intellectually developed.
This evolving landscape demands a re-examination of the human role in research. The human–AI relationship in research must rest on mutual critique, trust, and collaboration. Researchers should rigorously assess AI-generated outputs through their own expertise, while using LLMs to test, challenge, and refine their arguments and hypotheses. This reciprocal ensures that AI acts as an augmentative partner rather than a replacement in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Rather than offering definitive conclusions, this talk aims to stimulate dialogue, question assumptions, and inspire new ways of collective thinking about the future of scientific research and PhD training in an AI-driven world.
*This presentation was prepared by human, augmented by LLMs
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Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi is a distinguished Professor of Engineering, academic leader, and entrepreneur. He has served as Vice President for Research & Innovation at King’s College London since 2022 and holds the Arm Professorship of Computer Engineering (since 2007). His work in hardware–software co-design and energy-efficient computing has shaped modern digital technologies, with innovations used in billions of smartphones worldwide.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Sir Bashir is a highly cited researcher with 400 publications, eight books, and 52 supervised PhDs. His honours include the IET Faraday Medal (2020) and the IEEE–HKN Asad M. Madni Award (2025). He was knighted by HM King Charles III in 2025 and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 2018.
For any further enquiries regarding this guest lecture, please email the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI).
Complete the short online form to register your place.
Join the Israeli Society for a 7-day all-inclusive Tech Trip to Israel, exploring the Start-Up Nation up close.
🔹 Visits to leading tech companies & startups (Google, Nvidia, Mobileye)
🔹 Meet founders, engineers, and researchers 🔹 Experience Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, culture, history, nightlife — and lots of hummus
💷 £500 all included! (flights, hotels, meals, transport, visits)
📅 23–30 March 2026
Spaces are limited — sign up here: 👉https://forms.microsoft.com/e/ZVHHWLSWAj
Questions? Email us at israelis@ic.ac.uk
The third NIHR career development hybrid event for post-doctoral researchers titled “Thriving in Transition”, will be held between 10am and 4.00pm on Thursday 29th January in Central Manchester.
The event will cover:
Planned by a group at this career stage, the day-long hybrid conference will support post-doctoral researchers from all fields of health and social care research to successfully navigate this pivotal, and sometimes challenging, stage of their career.
The event will be open to any researchers at a postdoctoral career stage or in the final year of their PhD interested in pursuing their career with NIHR. If the event is oversubscribed, in-person places will be selected to achieve a balance of attendees.
To register for both in person and virtual places, please complete the registration form via the link below. It also includes further details about the day.
The registration form for the event is open via this link
Please note that in-person registrations are scheduled to close on 14th January; however, we encourage registrations before the Christmas break where possible so that we can confirm your place and you can make travel arrangements. Virtual registration will stay open until the day before the event.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Manchester. Any questions, please make contact via ICBS@nihr.ac.uk.
The Post Doctoral Event Planning Committee
The Department of Mechanical Engineering Research Showcase 2026 is taking place on 11 February and the guest speaker will be Alan Newby, Director of Research & Technology at Rolls-Royce plc.
Schedule
15:00 – Lecture Theatre 200, City & Guilds Building: Mechanical Engineering research topics
Talks to be given by Mechanical Engineering staff:
16:00 – Level 2 Concourse, City & Guilds Building : Tea/Coffee and Poster presentations
17:30 – CAGB LT 200: Invited lecture with Alan Newby
18:00 – CAGB Level 2 Concourse: Refreshments