Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

The Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is located in the heart of Cambridge and has over 30 academic staff including research fellows, more than 50 administrative, technical and support staff, and roughly 60 postdoctoral researchers, 130 research students and 30 visiting scientists at any time.

In the RAE 2008 (UK Research Assessment Exercise, covering 2001–07), 95% of our research activity is rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).

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14 June 2013
Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum 2013
The annual ABC Forum will be held next week on 19th June. The programme is available to view online.
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14 June 2013
"Electric Carbon" at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Dr Koziol's research group has been selected to present their work at the annual Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2013 which runs from Tuesday 2nd to Sunday 7th July in London.
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M. Ghidini, R. Pellicelli, J. L. Prieto, X. Moya, J. Soussi, J. Briscoe, S. Dunn and N. D. Mathur, Nature Communications 4 (2013) 1453

DOI 10.1038/ncomms2398