Thomas Barthelay

AAPS ITT1 took place in collaboration with external partners from AVL in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

Public Engagement Training delivered by Cardiff University and Science Made Simple.

AAPS ITT2 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

Attended the online Composites Design Workshop XXI, a certified live training course at Stanford University by Steve Tsai and associates. This workshop covers a wide range of advancements in the field of composite research, including a new invariant-based approach for the design and testing of composite materials. As part of the course, we were introduced to Tsai’s modulus and double-double laminates, and a range of new tools specific to this approach to composite layup. This workshop was extremely useful for both introducing us to carbon fibre composites and for getting us up to speed with some cutting-edge developments.

AAPS CDT Students attended a series of summer masterclasses on the theme Thermal Modelling Techniques, this session gave an overview of three different modelling domains within SaberRD: Electrical, Mechanical and Thermal. Students constructed a basic model for each of the three domains and simulated various typical scenarios, allowing them to solidify our knowledge whilst gaining experience working in SaberRD.

Each student is assigned a peer mentor when they join the programme, and then subsequently become a peer mentor to the following intake of students. Peer mentoring training is delivered by the Student Union to provide students with key insights on how to be a good mentor such as being a good active listener and a set of psychological models that can be used to encourage reflective discussions.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an important part of the AAPS CDT’s training programme, so each student undertakes a introduction to RRI to be able to understand and explain the concept of RRI, the importance of RRI and to illustrate how RRI principles can be implemented

AAPS ITT3 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually, on the theme of Cybersecurity in the Automotive Industry. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the topic of LCA, where they gained an overview of sustainability and learn the theory of LCA (attributional, consequential, use in existing and emerging technology/materials) and looked into different case studies.

AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the theme Low Carbon Fuels, where they learnt about the chemistry behind conventional fuels and what they actually are, what each family of components do and used this as a platform to overview the main routes to future renewable transport fuels. This masterclass also gave an introduction to Hydrogen.

I took this short online course learning more about how high-powered computing works and how to operate the system we have here at Bath myself. This has allowed me to progress through my research much faster and enabled me to research in a different way to what I have done before.

In February 2021, I attended the workshop on energy storage run by Gisel; the Italian electrochemical storage group. The workshop ran over three days and was very useful for giving me ideas for electrolyte materials early in my PhD.

Part of the student organising committee for the AAPS CDT Podcast series

AAPS ITT6 took place in collaboration with external partners from SHELL in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

Research Incubator: Hydrogen took place in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the Research Incubator, students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.