Congratulations to PGR Zahid Hussain, who has passed his viva. His thesis was titled ‘Metal-organic Framework (MOFs) Derived Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Applications in Photocatalysis’. During his time with the CDT, Zahid published 11 papers, plus an English-to-Urdu translation of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. Zahid now works as a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University […]
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Management Board and Admin Team- last working dates for this year
Please find below a table of the last working days for this year for CMRI Management Board and the admin team, and their first working day of 2021. We hope you enjoy the festive season! Management Board Staff member Last day in First day back Alastair Hibbins Tuesday 15th December Monday 4th January Anja Roeding […]
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation to provide novel research for £2m government offshore windfarm development
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation (CMRI) will develop novel methods for creating conductive coating for turbine blades that adsorb radar in partnership with TWI Ltd as part of the £2M offshore windfarm development boost spearheaded by the Ministry of Defence (MOD)’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) on behalf of the Department for Business, […]
Prof Sir Roy Sambles receives knighthood in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Congratulations to Prof Sir Roy Sambles, who has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to scientific research and outreach. Roy has worked in the University’s Department of Physics since 1972, becoming a senior lecturer there in 1985, a reader in 1988 and was made Professor of Experimental Physics in […]
Welcome to our new cohort for 2020!
We have seven new students this year, who have just finished the first week of their projects! Having attended a busy virtual induction week, they were pleased to meet the rest of the CDT face-to-face in a socially-distanced outdoor treasure hunt across the city. Our new students are: 2020 XM² cohort Theme Project Supervisor 1 […]
Julia De Pineda passes her viva!
Congratulations to Julia De Pineda, who passed her viva this month. Her thesis was entitled ‘Multi-layer metasurfaces for manipulating the propagation of microwaves along surfaces and edges’. Julia published four papers during her time with the CDT. Below, Julia describes the challenges and rewards of undertaking a PhD and the experience of having a virtual […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo submits his thesis!
Congratulations to PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, who submitted his thesis this month and on 18th September, successfully passed his viva. Here’s Pablo’s words on the challenges and rewards of undertaking his PhD and his time with the CDT: My thesis is submitted just in time! It has been four years working on this incredible research […]
XM2 Minerva Prize Colloquium Winner Announcement
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s inaugural Minerva Prize Colloquium is Louisa Brotherson, a PhD student at University of Liverpool. She will be giving a talk on “Absolute acoustic sensor calibration for quantifying lab-generated earthquake sources”, delivered via Zoom on Friday 2nd October 2020. Congratulations Louisa! The Minerva Prize is […]
PGR Rachel Lennon appointed as Postgraduate Research Rep for CDT Metamaterials for Student Guild
Our CDT in Metamaterials 2nd year PGR Rachel Lennon has recently been appointed to the Student Guild post of Postgraduate Research Rep for CDT Metamaterials. Congratulations to Rachel, and well done for stepping up to take on this role. She will act as academic representative for the CDT and her job is to represent the […]
Welcome SAG 2019/2020
As the New Year starts, there are some changes in the student advisory group for the CDT. Third years Emily Glover and Jess Brown are the new co-chairs, with Julia de Pineda Gutierrez stepping down as she approaches the end of her PhD. About her new role, Jess says, ‘I’ve been a member of SAG […]