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French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the importance of Franco-British collaboration in AI during his state visit to the UK this week, where he met with leading UK AI researchers and institutional representatives including UCL’s Professor Geraint Rees.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be made more sustainable by making practical changes, such as reducing the number of decimal places used in AI models, shortening responses, and using smaller AI models, according to research from UCL published in a new UNESCO report.

Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) has been appointed the new Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science, with a mission to transform our understanding of how we make, use, reuse and recycle products.

Professor Peter Munro has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. This follows his tenure as Interim Head since October 2024.

Today (7 July 2025) marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist bombings in central London in which 52 people lost their lives.

Congratulations to all UCL Engineering colleagues on the UCL Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions 2024 -2025 Successful List.