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Georgie's heading to the UK final of the IOM3 YPLC 2023!

31 March 2023

We are excited to share that after winning the Cambridge local heat, Georgie Burgoyne Morris, a first year PhD student in the Photoactive Materials group, won the South East regional heat of the IOM3 Young Person’s Lecture Competition yesterday. She will now go on to represent the South East in...

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2nd place in QS World University Rankings by Subject

29 March 2023

We're absolutely delighted to be ranked in joint 2nd place for Materials Science in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023!  We also congratulate all the other University of Cambridge departments who made it into the top 10s of their respective subject rankings.

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Internship Opportunities via The Faraday Institution FUSE scheme

10 March 2023

Studying a STEM degree?  Wondering what career to pursue?  Interested in finding out more about the battery sector?  Keen to spend time with a dynamic community of pioneering battery researchers seeking to find solutions to support a fully electric future? 

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Roscoe Medal for Chemistry awarded to Bea Jones, PhD student

08 March 2023

On International Womens' Day 2023, we are celebrating the news that Bea Jones, a 3rd year PhD student in the Photoactive Materials group in the Department of Materials Science and the B21 beamline at Diamond Light Source, was awarded the Roscoe Medal (Gold prize) for Chemistry at the 2023 STEM...

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New book from Professor Kumar

08 February 2022

As well as being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry at the end of last year, Professor R. Vasant Kumar, Distinguished Research Fellow, completed editing of "Rechargeable Ion Batteries", which was published by Wiley-VCH in December 2022.  This book also includes four chapters co-...

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ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Prof Kar-Narayan!

01 February 2023

Congratulations to Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan on being awarded a €2 million 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to develop new tools for remote health monitoring and personalised medicine.

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Official opening of the Royce 3D Bioelectronics Facility

24 January 2023

On the 10th of January 2023 Prof. Serena Best and Prof. Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, and Prof. Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, officially opened the Royce 3D Bioelectronics Facility.

The Facility Lead, Dr....

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Be our next Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy!

30 January 2023

We are seeking our next Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy!

The Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy and the Board of Electors to the Tata Steel Professorship of Metallurgy invite candidates with an outstanding research record of international leadership in the field of...

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Dr Monserrat awarded a Royal Spanish Society of Physics prize

20 December 2022

The Royal Spanish Society of Physics and BBVA Foundation presented their annual award for theoretical physics to Dr Bartomeu Monserrat, Gianna Angelopoulos Lecturer in Computational Materials Science. The award promotes scientific culture and recognizes high quality research, innovation, and the...

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Prof Rachel Oliver awarded RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies

05 December 2022

We are delighted to share the news that Professor Rachel Oliver FREng was announced as one of four innovative engineers to be awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies on 1st December 2022.  Rachel's proposal focuses on porous GaN: an emerging materials platform for...

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