Hannah Thorne

Trainee Patent Attorney, Marks & Clerk

United Kingdom

About me

Prior to joining Marks & Clerk in 2018, Hannah graduated with a first class MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. Her Masters project focused on carrier behaviour in perovskite solar cell materials. She is now working as a trainee patent attorney in the Oxford office.

15 Mar, 2023

Spring Budget 2023: winners and losers

By Hannah Thorne

Birds are chirping, daffodils are blooming, and pictures of a red briefcase are splattered across the newspapers. It's Budget season once...

06 Feb, 2023

Earth to AI: how can machine learning help climate adaptation?

By Hannah Thorne

Machine learning algorithms are highly effective at modelling complex systems. But what about when that system is the whole of Earth?...

08 Sep, 2022

Sheepdogs, swarms, and semantics: better human-AI communication

By Hannah Thorne

How can AI and humans communicate better? According to a group of researchers, the answer lies in an Aboriginal language. In their...

01 Jun, 2022

Sunrise, sunset: possibilities for night-time solar power

By Hannah Thorne

Harvesting power from the Sun in the dark? It's possible, says new research from UNSW Sydney. During the day, electromagnetic radiation...

10 May, 2022

How do you solve a problem like perovskite manufacture?

By Hannah Thorne

Machine learning may make perovskite solar panels competitive with silicon-based photovoltaics, new research by the Singapore-MIT...