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What to know more about our postgraduate research degrees?

26 October 2023

We're pleased to share our latest video about our postgraduate research degrees in the Department of Materials Science!  Watch below or within Youtube.

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Mike Ashby Associate Professorship established

12 October 2023

The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy is pleased to announce the establishment in perpetuity of the Mike Ashby Associate Professorship to support researchers in the early stages of their careers. 

The Joint Heads of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Professors Ruth Cameron...

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MSM PhD student receives an Acta Student Award

06 October 2023

Miguel Brito Costa, PhD candidate in the group of Prof Lindsay Greer, has been awarded one of the highly sought-after 2022 Acta Student Awards.  A team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia editors completed the evaluation of nominees for...

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Prof Cameron elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

20 September 2023

We send heartfelt congratulations to Professor Ruth Cameron who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.  You can read about her achievements in the RAEng announcement in the Related Links.

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Prof Kar-Narayan wins RSC Peter Day Prize

15 August 2023

We congratulate Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan who has received the 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry mid-career Prize, the Peter Day Prize, for advancing research in functional polymers and nanocomposites, and their application in energy, sensing and biomedicine using microscale...

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Promotions!

15 June 2023

We are thrilled to learn that Dr Jess Gwynne, our Director of Undergraduate Teaching, has been promoted to a Teaching Professorship (Grade 11) in the first ever round of the new Academic Career Pathways exercise for Teaching and Scholarship.  This long awaited Academic Career Pathway has also...

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Femincam meeting coming September 2023

15 May 2023

Save the date!

On 27th September 2023, the Device Materials Group will hold their Femincam meeting at Trinity College. Femincam is a celebration of the emerging women in science and leaders in electronic materials, across the departments of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Physics,...

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Eleonore wins a Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award

15 May 2023

Eleonore Poli was one of five exceptional students to receive a PhD Student Award at the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards earlier this month. The Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards are organised by Cambridge Hub to recognise and celebrate the achievements of exceptional University of...

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Rachel Evans elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

09 May 2023

Professor Rachel Evans was formally elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales at the end of last month.  In the year in which the Society launched its new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitment, over 50% of the new Fellows are women.  Elected Fellows include academics from across...

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Success at the IOM3 YPLC final 2023!

05 May 2023

We're delighted to share that following her successes in the local and regional competitions, Georgie Burgoyne Morris, a first year PhD student in the Photoactive Materials group, won the UK Final of the IOM3 Young Persons’ Lecture competition held at The Armourers’ Hall in London on Wednesday...

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