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23/2/24- We are very pleased to congratulate our close collaborator, Jose Silva, from Univ. Minho, Portugal, on a recognition Award for the Impact of Scientific Research, which distinguishes  him for the quality, volume and national and international recognition of scientific production he has carried out in the School of Sciences in the  2023.

18-22 Feb 2024 - Judith was pleased to present the group’s work at the IWAM 2024 (18-22 Feb 2024) conference, https://iwam-rakcam.com/index.html,  in Ras al-Khaimah, UAE, on neuromorphic oxides. She served on the board of IWAM and helps produce a very well attended meeting, supporting energy materials research in the Middle East region.

We were happy to host a Neuromorphic workshop at Trinity College, Cambridge. Our invited speakers, Prof. Bilge Yidiz and Prof. Adnan Mehonic gave excellent talks on their latest research.   

Judith was pleased to have an online kick-off meeting on her new joint EPSRC-NSF grant on BiOI X-ray detectors. Robert Hoye (Oxford), Quanxi Jia and Wanyi Nie (Buffalo) were on a zoom call with her to discuss our first steps.

The spinout company from our group (current and past members, Thomas Sun and Robert Hoye), NanoPrint, is moving fast along with its first prototype machine nearly built. We are grateful to Maxwell for allowing us to start up there. We are also grateful for the networking opportunities with other start-ups in Maxwell. 

The group wishes farewell to Erik, who has been with the group and wider DMG for over 2 years! Erik has been incredibly helpful to all group members, you will be missed!

PhD Muirean de h-Ora has visited the Tyndall National Institute hosted by Dr Lynette Keeney. As part of ASCENT+ programme, they conducted magnetoelectric coupling with piezo force experiment on VAN films. See below for more information about this programme, or find more information on this multidisciplinary and international network here. Many than…

Members of the Driscoll attended the IOP Memristor 2024 conference. Dr Hellenbrand presented his work on Resistive Switching Nanocomposites and Prof. Driscoll gave a talk on Materials Challenges for Oxide Memristors. Thank you to the organisation and all speakers for the excellent event and great discussions.

We were honoured to host Prof Yildiz at the Goldmisth Seminar series. She presented her and her group's outstanding work on exsolution for energy conversion applications. Their work investigates the role of oxygen vacancies, enabling to controllably tune size, density, composition and position of the exsolved metal nanoparticles. These findings can…

Prof. Driscoll organised an online seminar with prominent speakers from various universities, institutes, and career levels to discuss materials for neuromorphic computing. The webinar included excellent talks on the topic of neuromorphic implementation and materials design by Dr Markus Hellenbrand (Dept of Materials Science, University of Cambridg…

The Driscoll group has been awarded a grant incollaboration with Prof. Li from Ts Tsinghua University (PI: Huanglong Li from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Fang Wang from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Rong Yu from School of Materials Science and Engineering; co-PI: Pu Yu from Dept. of Physics). The grant will support research on the …

The Driscoll group also celebrated the festive season at Judith's house!

The DMG gathered to celebrate before the holiday break! Group members from the Driscoll, Di Martino and Kar-Narayan joined. It was a night of incredible food (thank you to all who brought something along), mulled wine, festive songs and activities. 

12/12/23: Judith is pleased to play a part in the development of superconductor tape under a new $5M ARPA-E project with HTSI in the US: https://www.hitsuperconductors.com/arpa-e-doe-funding-hts-tape/

8 December 2023:  Judith was extremely honoured to be invited to the RAM-90 meeting, which was a felicitation for the 90th birthday of CNR Rao. CNR (also known as Ram) is a honorary visiting scientist of the dep., founder of the JNCASR institute in Banglaore, and a good friend to so many. She was honoured both to give a talk and a 3 minute speech t…