We are delighted to announce that Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta has passed her viva. She was supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti. Carlota’s thesis was on “Optical phase-change metasurfaces: novel design concepts to practicable devices”. The examiners were Prof Anatoly Zayats from Kings College London, and the internal was Dr Ana Neves from […]
XM2 Graduation Winter 2019
Congratulations to Thomas Collier, Henry Fernandez, Cameron Gallagher, Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, Ben Hogan and Cheng Shi, who graduated on Friday 13th December. We held a post-graduation celebration in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both academia (three of our graduates have stayed […]
Management Board and Admin- last working dates for this year
Please find below a table the last working days for this year for Management Board and admin team, and their first working day of 2020. We hope you enjoy the festive season! Management Board Staff member Last day in First day back Alastair Hibbins Tuesday 17th December Monday 6th January David Wright Friday 20th December […]
Rosamund Herapath presents at TERANET UK-THz Symposium
On 4th and 5th December 2019, fourth year PGR Rosamund Herapath, Dr. Lauren Barr (alumna of the CDT) and Prof. Euan Hendry went to National Physical Laboratory (NPL) for the ‘TERANET UK-THz Symposium’. The event included 23 speakers from around the UK to discuss recent advances made in the field of mm-wave and THz research, alongside updates […]
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 […]
Fun-COMP creates first ever integrated nanoscale device programmable with either photons or electrons
Congratulations to Prof. C. David Wright whose work as lead of the EU H2020 project Fun-COMP was featured on the University’s main news webpage. The team have created the first-ever integrated nanoscale device programmable with either photons or electrons. This device helps achieve faster and more energy efficient computer memories and processors. Fun-COMP is a collaboration […]
Training and other events: December 2019 to March 2020
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from December 2019 until March 2020 as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: All confirmed events have been […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo gives web lecture on cancer imaging and treatment with nano-particles
Fourth year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, in conjunction with West of England metals and materials association (WEMMA) has prepared an online talk on cancer imaging and treatment with nano-particles. Check out the video below:
Oliver Latcham presents his work at Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM: 2019) Conference
Second year PGR Oliver Latcham discusses presenting at MMM 2019 and attending the SAM 2019: Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials: From Oct. 9th-11th I attended a symposia “SAM 2019: Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials” in Naples, Italy and Nov. 4th-8th a conference “Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM: 2019)” in Las Vegas, Nevada, presenting my work on Hybrid Magneto-Acoustic […]
Emily Glover wins Best Contributed Paper at Rank Prize Symposium
Congratulations to third year PGR Emily Glover, who won Best Contributed Paper at Rank Prize Symposium on Parallels Between Acoustics and EM Radiation in Structured Materials at the end of October. Emily says of the experience: The symposium was an invite only event in the Lake District, to improve the links between the acoustic and […]