Congratulations to alumna Dr. Natalie Whitehead, who has been featured in the i newspaper for co-founding Exeter Science Centre with Dr Alice Mills, CEMPS Outreach Officer at University of Exeter. Their aim is to create an exemplary science discovery centre in Exeter. Over the coming years, the centre will have a number of voluntary […]
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Pablo Martinez Pancorbo featured in 20 in 2020 blog post series
Congratulations to fourth year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, whose research has been featured on the Researcher and Innovation blog as part of the 20 in 2020 series of blog posts. This is comprised of 20 PhD students across multiple disciplines in the University; Pablo’s post, on ‘Nano-medicine in cancer diagnosis’ can be found here. Pablo is […]
New Publication: Coherent Transfer of Spin Angular Momentum by Evanescent Spin Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO
Congratulations to second year PGR David Newman, who has co-authored ‘Coherent Transfer of Spin Angular Momentum by Evanescent Spin Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO’, recently published in Physical Review Letters. Out of the fourteen co-authors, David is listed fifth. His supervisors Dr. Maciej Dąbrowski and Prof. Robert Hicken are also co-authors. The publication was also the subject of […]
Ineta Grikalaite and Joaquin Faneca give virtual presentations at SPb Photonic, Optoelectronic, & Electronic Materials 2020
Fourth year student Joaquin Faneca and second year student Ineta Grikalaite attended SPb Photonic, Optoelectronic, & Electronic Materials 2020 online conference and presented their work during the virtual poster sessions in the format of a 1 min elevator pitch. Joaquin presented his work on “On-chip sub-wavelength Bragg grating design based on novel low loss phase-change […]
Training and other events: May 2020 to July 2020
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from May 2020 to July 2020. Please note due to the current lockdown situation, dates and location are subject to change. May 11.05.20 CDT Group Meetings All PGRs 16:30-17:30 via Microsoft Teams 27.05.20 Poster Training 1st years 15:00-16:00 via Microsoft Teams 29.05.20 […]
PGR Rachel Lennon appointed as Postgraduate Research Rep for CDT Metamaterials for Student Guild
Our CDT in Metamaterials 2nd year PGR Rachel Lennon has recently been appointed to the Student Guild post of Postgraduate Research Rep for CDT Metamaterials. Congratulations to Rachel, and well done for stepping up to take on this role. She will act as academic representative for the CDT and her job is to represent the […]
New Publication: ‘Microwave Superdirectivity with Dimers of Helical Elements’
Congratulations to third year PGR Pavel Petrov, whose article ‘Microwave Superdirectivity with Dimers of Helical Elements’ was published yesterday in Physical Review Applied. Pavel summarises his article: This paper demonstrates experimental realisation of the subwavelength superdirective antenna that reaches close to theoretical maximum of directivity without using complex feeding network. We introduce a novel design […]
William Ferguson submits his thesis!
Congratulations to William Ferguson, the first of our 2016 cohort to submit their thesis. His thesis was titled ‘Auxetic power amplification mechanisms for low frequency vibration energy harvesting’. William was supervised by Prof. Meiling Zhu, Prof. Ken Evans and Prof. Christopher Smith. William has published two papers- ‘Student Perspectives On The Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2017’ […]
March Movie Night: Shaun of The Dead
March 6th saw the latest of the CDT film nights with the theme being “firsts” to mark the first movie night arranged solely by new organisers Emily Glover and David Newman. The winning film was “Shaun of the Dead”, the first of Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy”. About 25 of the XM2 PGRs (and a few […]
Hannah Barnard, Conor Price and Jonas Riisnaes in outreach visit to Ide Primary School
On the 13th February, second year PGRs Hannah Barnard, Conor Price and Jonas Riisnaes visited Ide Primary School, a local school in Exeter, to talk about what scientists and engineers do. Conor said: “The children have recently been learning about British engineer Isambard Brunel, and were interested to learn about what other scientists and engineers […]