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The group joined for an outing in Cambridge to bid farewell to Ji Soo, as he approaches the end of his PhD! Best of luck, and you'll be missed!

We were very pleased to host our collaborator, Prof. Jose Silva, from Univ. Minho., Poriugal, with whom we are just about to start a new EU RTN project, called Masauto.

The Driscoll group are extremely grateful for the huge generosity of alumnus Dr. William Welland for continuing to financially support the research of the group. His donations help with the many random things that are needed to fund to run a large experimental research group and which cannot be funded under standard research grants.  The personal a…

Some of the group members represented our new EPSRC network on neuromorphic computing at a joint UK-Netherlands cooperation event in London.

Ji Soo presents his researcher at High K workshop in Dresden, Germany. 

A number of group members who collaborate with or are interested in Paragraf visited the company today. Abin gave a talk to some members of the team there.

Daniel will be graduating from Konstanz soon! Daniel worked with the group on resistive switching in hafnium oxide devices, and electrical measurements of properties. Thank you and goodbye from the group!

Internal launch of Neumat Network, soliciting volunteers to guide and assist with the network, followed by dinner.

We were very pleased to receive and work with Dr. Moon from Sunam.

Judith was pleased to attend IWAM 2025, to give a science talk and also to talk to high school students about the exciting careers ahead when you do a science degree

We are very pleased to announce that Muireann de h-Ora has passed her PhD. She was employed on the EU Research Training Network, BeMagic. We thank Muireann for all she did in her time in the group, organisation so many things and for assisting so many people!  We are delighted she is thriving at her new job as an electrical engineer at AusNet, wor…

Judith was very happy to deliver the CN Rao award lecture 2025 in Bhopal, India. She was inspired not only by the exciting talks and posters but also by other activities. Notably colleagues from the Royal Society of Chemistry created a book called  ‘She Is’  highlighting excellent women in science in India, several of whom were present to be honour…

Judith and Ingon visited Tokomak Energy, near Oxford.  We are pictured here (from left to right) with David Kingham (Executive Vice Chairman and co-founder of Tokomak Energy), Tom Bedford (former PhD student in our group, now working at Tokomak Energy), Judith and Ingon (new PhD student). We look forward to continued collaborations with Tokomak Ene…

Judith and Ingon had a very interesting visit to Sunam, near Seoul. Sunam is a manufacturer of second-generation superconducting wires and high field magnets. 

It was great to meet for dinner with a number of Korean collaborators in Seoul.