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Judith visited Colorado at the ICCGE meeting and co-organised the session on "Epitaxy of Complex Oxides”Judith co-organised the session on "Epitaxy of Complex Oxides” at the ICCGE meeting, in Keystone, Colorado, July 28-August 2, 2019.  It was a great opportunity to meet close collaborators (as shown in the photo , Judith is with (left to right), A…

A funded PhD position is now open in the group via the BeMAGIC project.The project title of this position is 'Inorganic-organic 3D-structured multiferroics for electronics and biomedical applications'. For more details please see here.

Judith will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair with job openings associated. From 1 October 2019, Judith is pleased to announce that she will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Advanced Memory Materials. There will be some job openings associated with this position. Please see details here.

Members of the group enjoyed punting on the river camMembers of the group enjoyed punting on the river cam and having a picnic on the boats. They went to a drink reception in Prof. Driscoll's office at Trinity college afterwards, followed by dinner in the great hall.

The group's industry link and joint research are featured in an article in the April issue of Physics World - the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics. An article about the group’s links to industry and the joint research we do with was included in an article in Physics World.https://physicsworld.com/a/complex-oxides-and-collaborative-s…

A new grant from the EU for developing new materials.The group is pleased to receive notification of an award from the EU of an H2020_MSCA_ITN grant, called beMagic.  The grant is on developing magnetoelectric materials for memory and biological applications.

Judith had an exciting trip to Chengdu, Chongching and Shanghai. Judith had an exciting trip to Chengdu, Chongching and Shanghai. A highlight was the delivery of plenary talk at the China Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Conference in Chongching.

Tom Bedford and Judith visited Tokomak EnergyTom Bedford and Judith had a very interesting visit to Tokomak Energy who are building superconductor fusion magnets. Tom is sponsored to work with them to help understand the factors for improving the superconductor performance.

Judith is pleased to announce the award to her of a Chair in Emerging Technologies from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Judith and her team hosted a very interesting visit by Dr. Moon from SuNAM.

After 3 days in New York at a Journal Editors meeting at AIP, Judith visited the Naval Research Lab and delivered a talk there on how to engineer 3D strain states into complex oxides for creating entirely new properties

We wish Jane Dukes, our group secretary a very fond farewell.We wish Jane Dukes, our group secretary a very fond farewell. We thank Jane very much for all her loyalty, dedication, hard work, efficiency, and friendliness. We wish her the most happy retirement!!  We will miss Jane very much. We enjoyed so many wonderful cakes to celebrate Jane’s grea…

Congratulations to Chao Yun who passed his PhD today.Congratulations to Chao Yun who passed his PhD today!!We thank his examiners, Prof. Themis Prodromakis, and Dr Jason Robinson for taking their time to examine Chao.

Judith hosted visiting kids at the Cambridge Science Festival23 March 2019.  Judith was pleased to host around 20 kids from Camberwell for the second weekend of the Cambridge Science Festival. The kids came to Cambridge as part of Trinity in Camberwell activities. They started their fun in the Materials Science Dept. The 3D printing of chocolate ev…

The ‘liquid N2 ice cream’ event, now in its 14th year, is one of the science festival’s most popular events.It was great that so many from the dept. took part in the Science Festival 2019. We are extremely grateful to Trinity College for funding the ‘liquid N2 ice cream’ event, now in its 14th year, and one of the science festival’s most popular ev…