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Judith, Markus, Prof. Neeraj Khare and Prof. Jose Silva met with US VCs at a University investors event.

We are pleased to welcome 2 new visitors this week Prof. Jose Silva from Univ. Minho. Jose is a collaborator on binary oxide ferroelectrics for memory and energy storage and on photodetectors, and  Prof. Bonan Zhu (Beijing Institue of Technology) who is a former PhD student of the group and does DFT calculations. 

Professor Judith Driscoll won the 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize for her interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices. Read more about the award, and the interview with Prof Driscoll here.

Judith was very proud to be at the Imperial College Alumni Awards 2024 awards ceremony, held at the Science Museum in London, to see Dr. Giuliana Di Martino of the dept. receive an emerging leader award. She was also very happy to see her long time collaborator, supporter, and friend,  Prof. David Larbalestier receive a Distinguished Alumni Award.B…

Markus attended the cohort 1 showcase event of the ChipStartUK programme, which supports tech start-ups on their journey all the way from before corporation to obtaining investments. He talked to some of the organisers, advisors, and investors, as well as to IMEC representative, to gather ideas and impressions of the UK tech start-up landscape and …

We welcome Prof. Neeraj Khare from IIT Delhi, who is a Trinity visiting scholar for 1 month. He is working with the group on neuromorphic technologies. He will visit again as a Trinity Visiting Fellow for 6 months in 2025.

Judith was pleased to give an invited talk at EMRS in Strasbourg, but even more pleased to meet with previous group members,  Thomas Fix (CNRS - Université de Strasbourg),  David Munoz-Rojas (Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP)) and Robert Hoye (University of Oxford), who are all doing exciting research on solar cells and other so…

We had a fun late spring group dinner at Trinity College, attended by many in the group. It is great that many group members, in one way or another, have affiliations with Trinity College. Thank you to Judith for organising this wonderful evening!

We were pleased to host Dr. Moon from Sunam who part sponsored May Lim’s PhD, which is now complete.

Judith was delighted to visit the CNRS conference center, Villa Clythia, Frejus, France, to deliver a plenary talk on oxide electronics.  It is exciting to see all the oxide epitaxial work in France. Here she is pictured with the organiser, Dr. Guillaume Saint-Girons.

Markus and Thomas presented pitches for their technologies at the Matcelerate Zero event in the Hauser Forum on 30 April 2024.

Judith was pleased and honoured to become a Freeman of the City of London today at a ceremony in the City of London, followed by a walk around to see some livery companies in London ( who do many good charitable works across the UK). 

Ji Soo Kim and Dr Markus Hellenbrand presented their work on ferroelectric hafnium oxide and resistive switching, respectively, at the MRS Spring Meeting 2024 in Seattle. Dr. Markus Hellenbrand was an invited speaker and featured as an MRS Communications Early Career Distinguished Presenter!

Judith was very happy to visit Dr. Bill Welland, and alumnus of the department, in Somerton, Somerset.  Pictured here are Judith, Kelly, Bill and his wife Sarah.Bill is extremely kind to donate funds to the Driscoll group (over the past 5+ years). The funds have been used to part pay the stipends of PhD students. These seeds funds have directly led…

Here is a picture from Spring MRS 2024, Seattle, of the Driscoll group and her close collaborators. Pictured are (from front left, clockwise), Prof. Quanxi Jia (Judith’s long term collaborator, formerly Los Alamos and now SUNY Buffalo) who is coming on sabbatical as a Trinity visiting fellow in summer 2024, Prof. Robert Hoye (Oxford) who is now als…