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KMi Researchers Win Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL2019

05 Jun 2019

KMi researchers Dasha Herrmannova, Nancy Pontika and Petr Knoth win Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2019) for their paper titled: “Do Authors…

ANGELO succeeds his viva

04 Jun 2019

Congratulations to Angelo Salatino for succeeding in his viva! Last Friday, Angelo Salatino successfully defended his PhD thesis on Early Detection of Research Trends. The thesis is a body of…

KMi’s CORE partners with Turnitin, a global leader in plagiarism detection software

03 Jun 2019

CORE, the world’s largest aggregator of open access scientific content and Turnitin, a global leader in plagiarism detection software, have entered into a collaboration. Using CORE’s FastSync service, Turnitin’s proprietary…

Spectacular new five-part series: The Planets on BBC2

30 May 2019

In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary story of our Solar System. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on…

KMi’s FOSTER eLearning platform mentioned in a Nature article about Open Science

14 May 2019

A Nature article titled “Data sharing and how it can benefit your scientific career”, which discusses the importance of opening up research data and how data sharing could benefit researchers,…

New planet discovered by SPS Scientists in international team

10 May 2019

SPS astronomers Professor Carole Haswell, Postdoctoral Researcher Dr John Barnes and former SPS PhD student Dr Daniel Staab are among an international team which has discovered a new planet orbiting…

OU researchers land European Space Agency grant

10 May 2019

Manish Patel (STEM) and Leslie Budd (FBL) have been awarded a grant of €350,000 by the European Space Agency (ESA) – in the face of fierce competition from a number…

Post Doctoral Research Associate – Machine Learning and Citizen Science

10 May 2019

We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) in astronomy/physics to develop crowdsourcing experiments (citizen science) and machine learning. The role is based in the School of Physical Sciences…

OU scientist & NASA discover the surface of asteroid Bennu

10 May 2019

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the 500-metre-sized asteroid (101955) Bennu in December 2018. It’s aim is to collect a sample from the surface of Bennu and return it to the…

PhD student awarded prestigious women in aerospace fellowship

10 May 2019

Hannah Sargeant (Photo credit: Stacy Phillips, PhD student) Congratulations to one of our PhD student Hannah Sargeant, who has been awarded the prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship for women in aerospace-related…

UK Space Agency grant awarded to SPS researcher to study ExoMars landing site

02 May 2019

Dr Matt Balme has been awarded ~ £370K by the UK Space Agency for a project to observe and model the formation of wind-related landforms at the ExoMars rover landing site, both before and…

Nikos Story: Developing KMi PhD Research into a Commercial Product

24 Apr 2019

Nikolaos (“Nikos”) Nanas completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at KMi in 2004. His research focused on Adaptive Information Filtering and its application to content personalisation. Inspired by the…