We have the pleasure to announce that registration for the Materials for Clean Energy Conference (MCEC2019), held at the National Physical Laboratory from 8 – 10 April 2019, is now open: http://www.mcec2019.org/ MCEC2019 will focus on the latest developments in the fields of energy harvesting and energy storage, bringing together academics and industry leaders. The conference […]
XM2 graduation 2018 – a day to be proud
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 […]
UK Terahertz research – Exeter’s successful research representation at a workshop in Warwick
3rd year XM² PGR Ros Herapath went to the UK THz Workshop in Warwick to present her work on the Impact of pump wavelength on terahertz emission of a cavity-enhanced spintronic trilayer. She was accompanied by postdocs Peter Karlsen and XM² alumni Lauren Barr who is now working as a postdoc at the Univeristy of […]
New Publication: Microwave edge modes on a metasurface with glide symmetry
Very many congratulations to 3rd year CDT PGR Julia De Pineda Gutierrez for her latest publication on Microwave edge modes on a metasurface with glide symmetry, published in the November edition of Physical Review B. Julia is supervised by Prof A P Hibbins and Prof J R Sambles (FRS). She is currently also representing the […]
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 […]
William Ferguson: new representative for 3rd years on the XM2 Student Advisory Group
William Ferguson has taken on the role as representative of the CDT in Metamaterials 3rd year PGRs alongside Julia de Pineda Gutierrez. William is taking over from Pablo Martinz Pancorbo who has been on SAG since he started in the CDT more than two years ago. We would like to thank Pablo for his long-standing […]
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 […]