Congratulations to our Oversight Board member Dr Ruth Voisey (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Dyson), who was announced as one of the top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) by the Sunday Telegraph on 24 June 2018. The WE50 campaign aims to raise awareness of the skills shortage facing the industry and the huge discrepancy between the […]
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Honorary Senior Lectureship for Dr Celia Butler (Synopsys (Simpleware Product Group))
Very many congratulations to Dr Celia Butler who was recently appointed as Honorary Senior Lecture at the University of Exeter (Physics & Astronomy). Celia graduated with a PhD in Physics from the University of Exeter in 2012 following her succesful work on “Microwave Response of Square Mesh Metamaterials” (EPSRC iCase co-funded by QinetiQ). Prior to her […]
Beyond a PhD – special panel edition as part of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics (ICMM2018) at Exeter
From Sunday June 24th until Wednesday June 27th Exeter had the pleasure to host the sixth IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics (ICMM2018), following on the success of Fort Collins (USA, 2008), Boston (USA, 2010), Kaiserslautern (Germany, 2012), Sendai (Japan, 2014), and Tuscaloosa (USA, 2016). The conference focussed on new developments in all branches of […]
Leaving-Do for our 4th years
Who would have thought 4 years could go by in what feels like a split second. It seems as if it was only yesterday that the first CDT in Metamaterials’ cohort embarked on our programme, but 4 eventful years have passed and we will soon see all of them move on to new endeavours. Therefore, […]
Joseph Beadle – The new SAG representative for our 3rd years
Joseph Beadle is taking on the role as Student Advisory Group (SAG) representative for the 2015 cohort alongside Ben Hogan with immediate effect. Joe is taking over from Henry Fernández who contributed actively to the development of the programme on behalf of his cohort since 2016. Henry is stepping down from this role to prioritise […]
Flann and University of Exeter research project aims to pave way for 5G communications revolution
Microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is teaming up with the University of Exeter as part of ground-breaking research which could help pave the way for the next generation of 5G mobile communications. Flann is working with PhD researcher Julia De Pineda-Gutiérrez from the Department of Physics and Astronomy on a four-year project which aims to […]
CDT in Metamaterials – that’s what our PGRs say
We love working with and learning from our postgraduate researchers – and it’s great to hear what they think about their experience in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials: what they do, value and take away from their time as part of the local cohort and wider network of metamaterials science. Spend three minutes […]
XM2 Oversight Board meeting summary
On 13 February 2018 the XM2 Oversight Board (OB) visited us to evaluate the progress our centre has made over the last 6 months. The day’s agenda saw a few ‘firsts’ as highlights of the day: Prof Alastair Hibbins gave his first talk as Director of the CDT to the OB – an open session to […]
Julia De Pineda Gutiérrez – the new SAG representative for our second year PGRs
Julia De Pineda Gutiérrez has joined our Student Advisory Group (SAG) to co-represent the 2016 cohort for the remainder of the academic year 2017/18. Zahid Hussain has stepped down due to his extended research stay in Germany. The Student Advisory Group consists of normally 2 members of each cohort who represent the student body at […]
Changes to the CDT Management
2018 starts with some changes to the CDT in Metamaterials management: Alastair Hibbins is taking on the role as Director from Roy Sambles as of 1 Jan 2018. Roy Sambles has successfully led the CDT in Metamaterials since its beginnings in 2014. It has grown to a significant size with almost 100 researchers, consisting of […]