The CDT in Metamaterials sends a warm welcome to our 23 new PGRs. It was a real pleasure to see so many new faces and fresh energy arriving at the start of our induction week on 17 September 2018. We hope they will soon feel at home at Exeter and in their roles as postgraduate researchers – lots of challenges lie ahead, and we look forward to supporting their research and professional development over the next 4 years. I’m sure it’ll be an adventurous time with lots of new ideas for both scientific and community-building activities.
The best of luck to all XM² PGRs and supervisors for their endeavours in 2018/19.
| 2018 XM² cohort | Theme | Project | Supervisor 1 | Supervisor 2 | Supervisor 3 |
| Benjamin Pearce | Acoustic and Fluid-dynamical Metamaterials | Metasurfaces and Phononic Crystals for Manipulating Fluid Flow and Acoustics | Alastair Hibbins | Roy Sambles | Peter Petrov |
| Bethany Staples | Acoustic and Fluid-dynamical Metamaterials | Control of flow-induced near-field noise through the use of metasurfaces | Alastair Hibbins | Roy Sambles | |
| Connor Sait | quantum metamaterials | A quantum thermodynamic study to improve magnetic data storage | Janet Anders | Simon Horsley | Rob Hicken |
| Conor Price | Nanomaterials and nanocomposites | Two-dimensional Metamaterial Batteries | Steve Hepplestone | Misha Portnoi | Saverio Russo |
| David Newman | Magnonics, Spintronics and Magnetic Metamaterials | Detection of magnetic meta-atom dynamics by x-ray ferromagnetism resonance | Rob Hicken | Mustafa Aziz | |
| Dean Patient | Optical, Infra-red and THz Photonics and Plasmonics | Solid State Refrigeration using 2D/Meta materials) | Geoff Nash | Simon Horsley | |
| Euan Humphreys | Nanomaterials and nanocomposites | The development of novel electronic and photonic metadevices for adaptive multispectral imaging in the infrared | Wright | Bertolotti | |
| Hannah Barnard | Optical, Infra-red and THz Photonics and Plasmonics | Nanoscale Infrared Biomolecule Spectroscopy (NIBS) | Geoff Nash | JJ Phillips | Isaac Luxmoore |
| Ineta Grikalaite | Graphene and other 2D Materials, and related Devices | Terahertz photonic metadevices with carbon nanomaterials | Ana Neves | Anna Baldycheva | |
| Jacob Binsley | Acoustic and Fluid-dynamical Metamaterials | Magnetoelastic metamaterials for lab-on-a-chip technology | Feodor Ogrin | S Pagliara | F Palombo |
| Jamie Le Signe | Graphene and other 2D Materials, and related Devices | Probing mechanics in quantum mechanics – Josephson nano-resonator metamaterials | Saverio Russo | Eros Mariani | |
| Joe Shields | Optical, Infra-red and THz Photonics and Plasmonics | All dielectric phase-change metamaterial-based holography | David Wright | Jacopo Bertolotti | Arseney Alexeev |
| Karl Jonas Riisnaes | Graphene and other 2D Materials, and related Devices | Strong light-matter interactions in perovskites | Monica Craciun | Saverio Russo | Namphung Peimyoo |
| Katie Lewis | Microwave metamaterials’ | Advanced Magnetic Materials for Radio, Microwave and Millimetre-wave applications | Alastair Hibbins | Feodor Ogrin | Roy Sambles |
| Kavya Sadanandan | Graphene and other 2D Materials, and related Devices | Plasmonic-enhanced organic photovoltaics for wearable applications | Ana Neves | Monica Craciun | |
| Konstantinos Chatzimpaloglou | Magnonics, Spintronics and Magnetic Metamaterials | Optical detection of magnetization dynamics induced by spin orbit torques | Rob Hicken | Paul Keatley | |
| Lucy Annett | Magnonics, Spintronics and Magnetic Metamaterials | Optically induced magnetization dynamics of magnetic exchange spring metamaterials | Rob Hicken | Janet Anders | M K Dabrowski |
| Narima Eerqing | Biological and Bio-inspired Metamaterials | Testing fluctuation relations of conformal changes of biomolecules | Frank Vollmer | Janet Anders | |
| Oliver Latcham | Microwave Metamaterials | Excitation of spin waves in magnetic elements using surface acoustic waves | Volodymyr Kruglyak | Geoff Nash | Tom Hayward, University of Sheffield |
| Rachel Lennon | Wave Theory and Spatial Transformations | Towards flexible micro-endoscopy: compressive characterisation and control of light propagation through multi-mode optical fibres | Dave Philips | Jacopo Bertolotti | |
| Sara-Kate Lavers | Optical, Infra-red and THz Photonics and Plasmonics | Microscopy in scattering media | Jacopo Bertolotti | Christian Soeller | |
| Valentin Haemmerli | Quantum Metamaterials | Ultrafast single photon sources | Isaac Luxmoore | Bill Barnes | |
| Wai Jue Tan | Biological and Bio-inspired Metamaterials | Photosynthetic Metamaterials | Bill Barnes | Isaac Luxmoore | Philip Thomas |
Impressions from our CDT induction networking event with PGRs from each cohort and their academic supervisors:
