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Judith gave an update to the UK-India Education and Research Initiative on our recent studies on solid-state thin film batteries, and our ongoing collaborations with Indian Researchers. Two members of our team, Dr Debasis Nayak and Adam Lovett, allong with collaborators Dr Farheen Sayed (Grey Group) and Dr Venkat Daramalla (Dutton Group) have benef…

Members of the group attend the Winton Symposium to hear a wide range of talks on sustainabiliy, including one by Dame Julia King on the need to meet Net Zero Carbon Emssions, and the global political challenges in this. Judith chaired the second sesssion. 

Through generous funding by the Henry Royce Institute in Cambridge, we were able to procure a new aixACCT ferroelectric tester TF2000 with some nifty accessories. This will enable thorough characterisation of our and our collaborators' ferroelectric films!

Judith attended the IWAM 2022 workshop in Ras Al Khaimhah, one of the Emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Many great talks and discussions centred around sustainable materials, education and international collaboration. Many highly esteemed speakers were in attendance and local school children got the chance to be inspired by a separate session w…

We welcome Barbara Salonikidou as a new postdoc in the group working on the EROS ERC Advanced Grant!

Despite the 1°C temperature, fun was had by some hardy members of the Driscoll group who had group pizza and beer, to beat away the January blues

The Driscoll group and wider DMG groups (Sohini Kar Naryan and Di Martino) held our annual Christmas party at Trinity College. Thanks to many people in the group for the organisation and festive spirit! 

We say farewell to Josep Castell-Queralt, a visiting PhD student from UAB. Josep worked alongside Muireann de h-Óra modelling magnetoelectric structures during his time here. This collaboration was through the BeMAGIC project and we hope to continue working closely with him. We wish Josep all the best in his next steps!

Congratulations to Dr. Ming Xiao, who was a finalist in the Trinity Bradfield competition which is for early stage researchers to make a pitch for seed funding to progress their research towards commercialisation.  Ming made the pitch on Tuesday 23 November at the Bradfield Centre in the Science park in Cambridge.  He made it to the final stage of …

Murieann visited and presented at the BeMAGIC winter school on Energy-Efficient Magnetoelectric Nanomaterials for Advanced Information and Healthcare Technologies, this year hosted in Zurich, Switzerland. BeMAGIC is a joint academic-industrial inter-disciplinary initiative which has the primary goal of training a pool of young researchers in the ut…

Tom Bedford and Dr Markus Hellenbrand presented our research on superconductivity and materials for computer memory, respectively, at the Cambridge Zero Climate Festival.

Our wonderful secetary Tracey leaves us this week. We wish her good luck with all her future endeavours! 

We welcome Josep Castell Queralt who is visiting from University of Autonoma Barcelona. Josep is working on modelling of magneto electric composites with Muireann d’ h-Ora on the beMagic project

We welcome Prof. Javed Iqbal Saggu who is a sabbatical Post Doctoral visitor with the group for at least a year.  He obtained a prestigious and competitive HEC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Phase -III from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and is visiting from the Physics Department of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad Pakis…

Our Part III student Eva-Maria Tõnsson graduated from Cambridge University - we wish her all the best for her future!The verdict on her project in our group was a 'first', the highest grade category. Very well done!