Date Training/Event Cohort Time Venue 10.01.18 LTHE 1 1st Years 9.30 – 16.00 Laver LT6 11.01.18 CDT Group Meeting Group 2 14.30 – 15.30 Phy124 12.01.18 Metamaterials Colloquium All 12.30 – 13.30 Newman Red 15.01.18 Fabrication & Characterisation of functional materials 4th Years 10.00 – 15.30 HAR 170 17.01.18 CDT Group Meeting Group 3 13.30 […]
Christmas dinner & presentation prize winners
Congratulations to this years’ month 13 & month 25 presentation prize winners, Kieran Walsh, Ned Taylor, and Joshua Hamilton, who demonstrated excellence in both presentation style and scientific/technical content. All presenters were scored by their peers and academic assessors. Well done! What’s more, Joshua is apparently not only a good presenter but also a good […]
Prof Roy Sambles at the UK Acoustics Network
The first meeting of the EPSRC funded UK Acoustic Network took place on Monday 27 November 2017. This network provides a platform for about 100 academics, Government researchers and industrialists to get together and explore the future pathways for UK acoustics research. In January 2018 the UK Acoustics Network Steering Committee will meet to roadmap […]
New publication
Congratulations to Tanveer Tabish – he has just published an article in Redox Biology: ‘Developing the Next Generation of Graphene-based Platforms for Cancer Therapeutics: the Potential Role of Reactive Oxygen Species’. Graphene has a promising future in applications such as disease diagnosis, cancer therapy, drug/gene delivery, bio-imaging and antibacterial approaches owing to graphene’s unique physical, […]
New publications
Congratulations to Julia and Tanveer for their latest publications! Julia De Pineda Gutiérrez published her article on A broadband metasurface luneburg lens for microwave surface waves in Applied Physics Letters, and Tanveer Tabish published his paper on In vitro toxic effects of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets on lung cancer cells in IOPscience. Well done both! […]
Infrared Sensing and Imaging Workshop: Challenges for Next Generation Materials and Devices
This week XM2 hosted a workshop focussed on Infrared Sensing and Imaging, “Challenges for Next Generation Materials and Devices” at the Rougemonth Hotel in Exeter, organised David Wright (University of Exeter) and John Lincoln (PLG Ltd). The objective of this meeting was to bring together leading industrial innovators and academics to identify technical challenges steering research […]
Recruitment for 2018
Recruitment for entry in September 2018 has started. All opportunities are listed on our website and external pages (jobs.ac.uk, findAPhD.com, and brightrecruits.com). We also launched a facebook campaign targeted at UK undergraduates and a print media campaign with IOP and the New Scientist. If you know of promising UGs in- or outside of Exeter, please […]
A new website for XM2
Our new webpage is up and running! During the past months the University’s marketing and web design team put in lots of effort and energy to help us develop our new website – just in time for this year’s recruitment kick-off. Have a browse around the new pages and send us your feedback: www.exeter.ac.uk/metamaterials. Spotted […]
Visit at Dyson
On 1 November 2017 a delegation of our PGRs went to visit Dyson’s headquarters in Malmesbury. The event was a pilot for Dyson – and a full success. Company representatives from both research and HR provided our PGRs with very interesting insights in Dyson’s research and working environment, and useful careers advice. Particularly well received […]