School of the Physical Sciences
About this community
The School of the Physical Sciences is one of six Schools making up the academic work of the University. It covers Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geography, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Mathematics and Physics. The School’s aim is to contribute to our understanding of the physical world through excellence in observational, theoretical and experimental science and to extend quantitative, qualitative and combined methodologies to address problems in the fields of biology, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. In pursuit of these goals, the School coordinates objectives in research, teaching, and infrastructure.
Find out more about the School of the Physical Sciences at http://www.physsci.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Cambridge eScience Centre (CeSC)
Part of the Centre for Scientific Computing; aims to coordinate and maintain CamGrid, to enable new scientific advances by using novel computing paradigms, and to develop new generic Grid-based tools -
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Carries out research of world-class excellence in a broad range of subjects across applied mathematics and theoretical physics -
Department of Earth Sciences
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography -
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Includes research in the field of biomedical materials, in parallel with historically strong activities in the development of structural materials and processes, and of device materials
Recent Submissions
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Understanding the Speciation of Ruthenium Arene Complexes as Precursors to Unnatural Enzyme Cofactors
Ruthenium arene complexes have been extensively explored as metallo-pharmaceuticals and as small molecule catalysts. Exploring the overlap between these areas, this thesis describes a body of work aimed at quantitatively ... -
Associating adverse drug effects with protein targets by integrating adverse event, in vitro bioactivity, and pharmacokinetic data
Adverse drug effects are unintended and undesirable effects of medicines, causing attrition of molecules in drug development and harm to patients. To anticipate potential adverse effects early, drug candidates are commonly ... -
Ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of low-dimensional excitonic materials at room temperature
One challenge of condensed matter physics is to explain the complex behaviour of the material world. Doing so requires determining the significant degrees of freedom, which can then be controlled, varied, measured ...
