Very many congratulations to our XM² graduates in the 2018 winter ceremony. They joined our first two graduates from summer 2018 (Alba Paniagua Diaz and Tanveer Tabish) in the ranks of XM² PGRs who successfully completed their PhD. A few more from our 2014 cohort are due to graduate in summer 2019; they have completed […]
Category: Activities & achievements
XM2 visit at IBM in Daresbury
On Friday, 7th December 2018, 16 of our third and fourth year postgraduate researchers visited The Hartree Centre (IBM) in Daresbury. The Hartree Centre is transforming UK industry through high performance computing, big data and cognitive technologies. We got to know representatives from Daresbury’s IBM research team, who introduced us to their work on data […]
Miguel Camacho Aguilar – an award for past achievements and a contract for the next step in his research career
Congratulations to 4th year PGR Miguel Camacho Aguilar for his recent Spanish national award of 3,300 € as best undergraduate student in Physics (class of 2015). He is supervised by Prof A Hibbins and Prof R Sambles and has so far produced 8 publications during his PhD, 3 more are currently under peer-review. He is […]
Presentation prize winners 2018
We have the pleasure to announce this year’s month 13 (M13) and month 25 (M25) presentation prize winners. Very many congratulations and £50 dinner vouchers for the delivery of a fantastic talk about their work after the first and second year, respectively, go to: The presentations were peer-assessed (on average 40 PGRs provided scores and […]
XM2 Christmas dinner 2018
Well done to our PGRs Peter Inzani, Lizzie Martin, and all their supporters who made the CDT in Metamaterials Christmas Dinner 2018 a success. It is quite a challenge to coordinate dinner, raffle, and secret santa with more than 60 people involved, and they have done a fantastic job to provide the XM² PGRs and […]
Conor McKeever passed his viva!
We are delighted to announce that Conor McKeever successfully defended his thesis on high frequency dynamics of nano magnetic particles last Friday, with minor corrections. His external examiner was Richard Evans (University of York) and internal examiner was Dr Eros Mariani. Conor is author/co-author on the following publications: Influence of surface anisotropy on exchange resonance modes […]
XM2 PGR social – food, fight and pub quiz winners!
Peter Inzani and Jess Brown are currently leading on the XM² PGR social events organisation. They have recently coordinated a welcome celebration to the new cohort with all other CDT PGRs at Mill on the Exe. Their summary of the evening: “There was a delicious buffet and a pub quiz. After 6 rounds of trivia, […]
Sam Shelley & Tim Spicer passed their vivas! Congratulations!
Very many contragulations to both Sam Shelley and Tim Spicer who have recently passed their respective viva with minor corrections. Well done both! Sam will continue to contribute his expertise at the University of Exeter as a postdoc. His work on “The Control of Fluid Flow Using Metamaterials Concepts” (supervised by Roy Sambles (FRS), […]
Chris King passed his viva with no corrections!
It is our pleasure to announce that EPSRC CDT PGR Chris King passed his viva with no corrections. He was examined by Dr Dave Phillips (UoE) and Prof Stephen Barnett (University of Glasgow). An outstanding result! Very many congratulations to Chris, that’s truly exceptional. Chris’ PhD thesis work “Designing non-scattering graded-index media” was supervised by […]
Poster prize winner Joaquin Faneca @ Photonex Europe
EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Joaquin Faneca (now in his 3rd year) won the technical poster prize at the Photonex Europe conference in October 2018, a key event for photonics that brings the whole supply chain together under one roof: supplier companies, consultants, industrial users, researchers, science groups and innovative new-comers. Congratulations to Joaquin for […]