Congratulations to three our academics who were recently awarded new funding for research projects: Prof Bill Barnes: EPSRC (award number TBC) – Molecular Photonics Breadboards Prof Volodymyr Kruglyak: EPSRC (EP/T016574/1) – Controlling Acoustic Metamaterials with Magnetic Resonances: The Best of Both Worlds Prof C David Wright: DASA competition ‘Advanced Vision for 2020 and Beyond’ – […]
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Materials Research Exchange 2020 – a poster prize winner and new connections for Exeter
Exeter’s Metamaterials delegation returned from the biennial Materials Research Exchange 2020 event with a poster prize, a wide range of contacts made, and new insights in the UK materials landscape across industry, academia, and UKRI. 2 eventful days in London with over 80 speakers, 1500 delegates, and 70 exhibitors attending enabled interesting conversations on how […]
Beyond a PhD: Dr Ben Masheder speaks about his journey from a UK PhD in Chemistry to postdoc in Japan, SME scientist in Wales, and Innovation Specialist at Business West in Bristol.
On Friday, 29 December 2019, Dr Ben Masheder gave a hugely inspiring talk to the CDT in Metamaterials PhD students on his career progression since he left University with a PhD in Chemistry. He highlighted how not knowing what’s next and just being a nice person by sharing a picture with a research visitor from […]
Congratulations to Prof J Knight: Fellow of the Royal Society
Congratulations to the XM2 Oversight Board Chair and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Bath, Professor Jonathan Knight, who has been elected to the Royal Society for his exceptional contribution to science. “Professor Knight, whose research focuses on photonics and optical physics, was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the […]
“You should sell this concept” – great feedback on our STEM industry careers event
“You should sell this concept. The engagement with industry was impressive. Also, we made a couple of useful business to business contacts!” ( Charmyn Hall, HR Director, Plasma Technology at Oxford Instruments) The CDT in Metamaterials hosted its annual STEM industry careers event for PhD students and postdocs on 18 April 2019. We welcomed representatives […]
XM2 proudly presents: The first Materials for Clean Energy Conference at NPL
Our very first Materials for Clean Energy Conference (MCEC2019) took place from 8 – 10 April 2019 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The MCEC2019 organisers would like to thank all participants, our sponsors (the CDT in Advanced Characterisation of Materials, the Energy Harvesting Network, the Knowledge Transfer Network, Shimadzu, and Princeton Instruments), and in […]
Josh Hamilton passed his viva – well done, and good luck at QinetiQ!
It is our pleasure to announce that Joshua Hamilton, supervised by Prof Feodor Ogrin and Dr Peter Petrov, has passed his viva with minor corrections. He was examined by Dr Mariana Medina Sanchez (IFW Dresden, Germany) and Stefano Pagliara (University of Exeter). He recently started a postdoc position at QinetiQ, developing new materials or structures […]
Charlie-Ray Mann: UK representative at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Charlie-Ray Mann has been officially accepted as a UK representative for the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (#LINO19) that will take place 30 June–5 July 2019. LINO19 will be dedicated to physics. Until now, 41 Nobel Laureates have confirmed their participation. They will meet 580 young scientists from 88 countries for an inspiring dialogue. Charlie […]
XM2 @ the KTN “Showcasing Emerging Technologies 2019 – Metamaterials” event
What we presented at KTN’s ‘Showcasing Emerging Technologies 2019 – Metamaterials’ event in Birmingham on 19 March 2019: a tag prototype that could revolutionise metallic packaging security (Dr Paul Keatley, Emily Glover); a numerical tool which can be used to design a new class of radio and microwave frequency-based components for communications devices (Dr Conor […]
Careers event: 18 April 2019
On 18 April 2019 we will see the second edition of our STEM PhD student/postdoc-focussed careers event. A range of organisations (e.g. Babwe Barton Enterprise, BAE Systems, Granted Consultancy, IBM, NPL, Oxford Instruments, WaveOptics) will introduce themselves in 15 minute talks as potential employers, outlining their current research challenges and what they are looking for […]