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 […]
Category: Activities & achievements
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 […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo wins first prize in ChemBio category of RSC Twitter Poster Competition
Third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo has won first prize in the ChemBio category of Royal Society of Chemistry‘s Twitter Poster Competition. Pablo’s poster was on Smart nanoparticle design for finding and killing early-stage single cancer cells. The #RSCPoster Twitter Conference is an online event held entirely over Twitter to bring members of the scientific […]
Upcoming events co-sponsored by XM2: “Materials for Clean Energy” and “Light in Complex Materials”
On 8 – 10 April two events will take place in areas related to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials: The Materials for Clean Energy Conference [MCEC2019] (National Physics Laboratory, London) and the Light in Complex Materials Workshop [LCM] (Streatham Court, Exeter) LCM will bring together the communities of scattering media, fibre optics and metamaterials together, […]
Integrated phase-change photonics for memory and computing devices
This video, narrated by our third year PGR Emanuele Gemo, gives a short description of the integrated phase-change photonic memory, a device allowing to store and retrieve non-volatile information on optical chips. Emanuele’s research project is focused on the theoretical study of this class of devices, and on the proposal of solutions to improve its […]
Ben Hogan is awarded SPIE IDL Micro Grant
Ben Hogan, fourth year CDT PGR, has been awarded a SPIE IDL Micro Grant for $2000- one of only two UK universities to receive it this year. The UNESCO International Day of Light is a global initiative highlighting to the citizens of the world the importance of light and light-based technologies in their lives, for […]
Miguel Camacho Aguilar passed his viva!
Congratulations to Miguel Camacho Aguilar, who has passed his viva. His thesis title was “Microwave response of finite periodic metal structures”. The examiners were Prof. Guido Valerio from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and Prof. Matthew Browning from University of Exeter. Miguel will be starting a postdoctoral role in the group of Prof. […]
Mian Zahid Hussain at ICS Winter School 2019
Recently, third year CDT postgraduate researcher Mian Zahid Hussain secured a grant from Italian Chemical Society (ICS) to participate in a winter school on Catalysis which took place at Bardonecchia, Italy from 7-11 January 2019. The focus of the winter school was to provide a detailed picture of the current scientific challenges to the catalysis […]
The CDT’s UG summer student scheme – a huge success for UGs, PhD students and semiconductor research
Our CDT PGR Tom Collier, now in his final year, sucessfully bid for a CDT summer student bursary in early 2018. The “learning by doing” scheme provided an opportunity for all third years to hone their grant writing scheme and take a chance on one of three bursaries that would cover a small stipend and […]
From Smart Materials to Smart Things – Smart NanoMaterials 2018 in Paris: Presentation prize for XM2 PGR Charlie-Ray Mann
The first European conference on Smart Nanomaterials took place at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Paris, France, 10 – 13 December 2018: Internationally known experts, including industry leaders, met at the first European conference on Smart Nanomaterials to discuss the most critical technological advances, innovations and new practical applications in smart technologies. SNAIA2018 […]