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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 6h

Super excited to finally get my DGX Spark AI workstationb(Yay 😁)..... only to realise all tge ports are usbc-c and my keyboards are not... Doh.. will have to wait another day or two to play with it..🫩

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 3d

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Wonderful to be part of this fun project! Body powered implants!! 😀

New project to transform implantable medical devices

New £2.1 million GLUTRONICS project aims to revolutionise implantable medical devices with a transformative technology that harnesses power from glucose in the body.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 13d

A PhD opportunity in Trustworthy AI systems for Pervasive Healthcare! Application deadline 14th November www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Search for Postgraduate Scholarships and Other Funding

Search scholarships and funding for postgraduate study at Newcastle University. Find financial support tailored to your course and eligibility.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 14d

Well done to my PhD student Cong Ma who has published his first paper on "Optimising the Design of Implantable Fuel Cells" www.preprints.org/manuscript/2..., which is part of an EPSRC funded Glutronics project.

An image of implantable fuels and what type of implant they can power - essentially, they are feasible for low-power systems up to and including cardiac pacemakers.

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 18d

It was great to host a fact-finding delegation from South East University, China this week. I was proud to be able to show the standard of our teaching and research here at Newcastle. SEU is a great place. Looking forward to the reciprocal visit.

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 21d

It's great to have a visiting fact-finding delegation from EEE at South-East University China. Proud to show how we do things here at Newcastle.

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · 26d

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Great to see progress on robot hands - it's the final piece in the research puzzle before we all get robot butler.

What's in a humanoid hand? | Boston Dynamics

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Sep 27

Newcastle is a wonderfully friendly and welcoming city. So today I was especially delighted to see thousands of ordinary Geordies show up to prevent a few hundred far-right hooligans from giving the city a bad name.

Image of peaceful counter demonstrators preventing far right thugs from entering the main square.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Sep 25

I reviewed this fascinating piece of work today at TU Delft. Dutch PhD vivas are somewhat different in format to here in the UK. But in the end it is the quality of the candidate that matters. And happy to say he passed my thorough grilling. 😁

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Sep 25

It was wonderful to give my lecture on "Responsible Use of AI for Engineers" to our new MSc cohort today. A great bunch! and we had fun going through the tools together!

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jun 17

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University life can be fun as well as work! From Friday, Newcastle will host its giant funfair called "The Hoppings", a yearly activity dating back to medieval times.

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jun 17

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My Egyptian friends at Nile University have opened a junior research competition with the theme: “Young Minds, Global Vibes”

Home page | UGRF - Undergraduate Research Forum

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great to have Jason from Synopsys here in @nclengineering.bsky.social to give a seminar on their RTL Synthesis tool

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Mar 6

Equality has unfortunately become unfashionable in some quarters these days. But we absolutely need to inspire the next generation. It was wonderful to read about this collection of female engineers and their contributions to our collective wealth. www.electronicdesign.com/resources/in...

Celebrating Women Engineers and Their Lasting Legacies

Discover the women who are shaping the future with groundbreaking innovations and inspiring leadership.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Feb 18

We have very exciting job posts as part of a collaboration between Oxford, Bath, Sheffield and Newcastle to build a new type of implantable fuel cell for medical devices. Newcastle: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... Bath: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/FM12468 Sheffield: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ247/r...

Research Assistant/Associate in Biomedical Microsystem Design

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Feb 17

If you fancy getting involved in developing an implantable fuel cells, we have some opportunities! the first is for excellent chemical engineers at the lab of Mirella Di Lorenzo - my Bath collaborator on our Vampires project. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

FM12468 Research Associate in Electrocatalysis for Glucose Fuel Cells - Jobs at Bath

Research Associate

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Feb 13

It was wonderful to have a visit from Prof. Jong Mo Seo, Seoul National University to here in Newcastle. He gave a great talk on retinal prosthetics and we had lots of fun playing with our femtosecond super-laser!

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Feb 2

Great to see the Chinese New Year festivities today in Newcastle. It is an interesting image together with the Irish Centre. Both communities actually have historical overlap from the 1840s and co-located in various UK, US cities.

Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Every year, the Chinese have a New Year gala on TV to celebrate the new year. This year, they did a joint show with humans and robots! It is still a few years away, but I'm looking forward to having a robot butler that does the dishes!

Dancing robots take the stage at China’s Spring Festival Gala performance

YouTube video by South China Morning Post

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jan 28

Daft panic over Deepseek. Two visions for AI: (1) AI that is operated by one or two cloud monopolies with total undemocratic control of the world's information. (2) Private efficient AI’s running on people’s devices under individual control. I prefer the latter!
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UK will not be able to resist China's tech dominance

China's AI success has come from policy and Chancellor Rachel Reeves's recent visit to China highlights the importance of a close relationship.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great to see an adaptive DBS system implanted here in Newcastle: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunderland Parkinson's patient 'feels cured' with new device

Kevin Hill, who has a computer in his chest linked to a brain implant, says he has his life back.

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jan 25

The Parkrun is one of the best pro-health institutions in the UK and it is FREE!!!. My local one in the Jesmond Dene is beautiful and the crowd is very supportive. They are all over the UK! www.parkrun.org.uk/events/

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Prof. Patrick Degenaar @patrickdegenaar.bsky.social · Jan 24

Holy Moly.. Politicians should not be interfering with science like this.
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

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