From the 16th to the 21st of July, 2017, the 1st Materials Networking Workshop & Summer School took place at the University of Cambridge, UK. The School was attended by 15 young researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University and from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona. In the Workshop also participated the members of the Management Committee of the project as well as many researchers from the University of Cambridge.

The host of the event was Professor A. Lindsay Greer FIMMM Head of School of the Physical Sciences and Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Among the lectures were Professor Chris Abell (FRS, FMedSci Pro-Vice-Chancellor – Research, Professor in Biological Chemistry, Co-founder of Astex Pharmaceuticals, Sphere Fluidics, and AQDOT), Dr Tom Bennett (Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Serena Best (Professor of Materials Science, Deputy Head of Department (Research), Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia (FRS, FREng, FNAE Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Mark Blamire (Head of Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy and Professor of Device Materials).

The programme of the event could be found here. The contact person for the event was Dr Stoyan Smoukov, Head of Active and Intelligent materials Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, member of the Management Committee of the project Materials Networking.