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ANNUAL REPORT
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Department of Materials Annual Report 2013–14
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Our staff and students come from all over the world. We strive to attract, develop, reward and retain a diverse community of staff and students of the highest calibre. The Department is unique in the UK for the breadth of its coverage of Materials Science and Engineering, both by the extent of its multi-disciplinary approach and by the range of materials covered in teaching and research. Formal qualifications of our academic staff include Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy, Physics, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as Physics and Mathematics, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Summary of staff and students in
Postgraduate taught students
the Department of Materials 2013–14 STAFF
Academic staff
32.3
Administrative staff
15.68
Technical staff
7.9
Research officers
7
Research fellows
24
Research Associates
67
Research Assistants and early stage researchers
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Total
162.9
First year
38
Second year
59
Third year
36
Fourth year
18
Total
151
MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
34
MSc Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials
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Total
66
Undergraduate students
First year MEng Materials Science and Engineering
251
250
258
240
Staff Postgraduate research students
200 150
150
162.9 151
150
Postgraduate taught students
127
114
100 43
2011–12
54
2012–13
66
Undergraduate students
2013–14
48
First year MEng Aerospace Materials
2
First year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
1
First year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering
4
First year BEng Materials Science and Engineering
17
Second year MEng Materials Science and Engineering
5 51
Second year MEng Aerospace Materials
1
Second year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering
4
Second year BEng Materials Science and Engineering
26
Second year BEng Materials with Management Third year MEng Materials Science and Engineering
300
0
18
First year BEng Materials with Management
Postgraduate research students
50
MSc in Nuclear Engineering
1 34
Third year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
5
Third year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering
1
Third year BEng Materials Science and Engineering Third year BEng Materials with Management Fourth year MEng Materials Science and Engineering
27 5 23
Fourth year MEng Aerospace Materials
1
Fourth year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
2
Total
258
The bar chart shows the steady growth of the Department over the last 3 years
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people academic, research and support staff HIGHLIGHTS
Professor Julian Jones
Professor of Biomaterials, Senior Undergraduate Tutor
Professor John Kilner
BCH Steele Chair in Energy Materials
Professor Norbert Klein
Professor of Electromagnetic Nanomaterials, Director of the Centre of Terahertz Science and Engineering
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council r David Payne was D elected to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for Research Infrastructure. SATs exist to provide Theme Leaders at EPSRC with strategic advice that will assist them to develop, implement and modify plans.
Academic staff Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Professor of Physical Electronics and Thin Film Materials, Head of Department, ViceDean (Research), Faculty of Engineering
Professor Bill Lee FREng
Professor of Ceramic Engineering, William Penney Fellow, Director of Centre for Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Professor Jason Riley
Professor of Materials Electrochemistry, Director of Research, Deputy Head of Department
Professor Mary Ryan
Professor of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, First and Second Year Coordinator, Tutor for Women, Athena Swan Coordinator
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez
Professor of Structural Ceramics, Postgraduate Tutor, Director of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC)
Professor Stephen Skinner
Professor Natalie Stingelin
Professor of Functional Organic Materials, Postdoctoral Research Staff Mentor
Dr David Dye
Reader in Metallurgy, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Sandrine Heutz
Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Chair in Micromechanics, Director of the Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre, Co-director of the AVIC-BIAM Centre for Materials
Reader in the Theory and Simulation of Materials, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor Mike Finnis*
Professor of Materials Physics
Reader in Theory and Simulation of Materials, Fourth Year MEng Coordinator, Director of the Thomas Young Centre (Imperial), Assistant Director of the CDT in Theory and Simulation of Materials
Professor Peter Haynes*
Dr David McPhail
Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials, Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
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Dr Christopher Gourlay
Dr Arash Mostofi*
Reader in Surface Analysis, Director of the CDT in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials
Administrative staff
Senior Lecturer, EPSRC Engineering Fellow for Growth, Deputy Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
Student Office Administrator
Dr Rongshan Qin
Jason Coyne
Senior Lecturer in Steel Processing, Corus/RAEng Senior Research Fellow, Departmental Careers Advisor and Undergraduates Placements Coordinator
Dr Paul Tangney* Senior Lecturer
Dr Luc Vandeperre
Senior Lecturer, Exams Coordinator
Dr Iain Dunlop
Lecturer, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Finn Giuliani^
Lecturer, Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Dr Michelle Moram
Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine
* Joint with the Department of Physics ** Joint with the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBME) ^ Joint with the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Reader in Bioimaging and Analysis
Professor Molly Stevens** FREng
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Professor Robin Grimes FREng
Dr Alexandra Porter
Lecturer, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Third Year Coordinator
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Professor of Materials Theory and Simulation
Reader in Functional Microwave Materials and Devices, Deputy Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
Professor in Materials Chemistry, Facilities Coordinator
Reader in Functional Molecular Materials, Course Director (MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering)
Professor Alan Atkinson
Dr Mark Oxborrow
Lecturer, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Academic Outreach Officer
Dr David Payne
Lecturer, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Deputy Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Lecturer, Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr Mark Wenman
Beth Britton
Trainee Apprentice in Finance and Administration
Caroline Detchenique
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer
Dr Amutha Devaraj
Technical Manager, Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC)
Raj Gill
Student Office Administrator and Administrator for MSc courses
Jacqueline Hughes
Resources Administrator
Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager
Dr Sujata Kundu
Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer
Professor Mojtaba Moatamedi
Technical Manager for the Centre for Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Dr Saira Naeem
HexMat Programme Grant Project Manager
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Department Operations Manager
Dr Panagiotis Papathanasiou Scientific Writer
Dr Manjula Silva
Lecturer
Assistant Teaching Fellow Undergraduate Laboratory Support
Dr Fang Xie
Dr James Spencer
Lecturer
Dr Theoni Georgiou
Lecturer, Undergraduate Biomaterials Coordinator, Course Director (MSc in Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials)
Dr Ainara Aguadero
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Lecturer (effective 01 March 2015)
Dr T Ben Britton
Nuclear Metallurgy Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow (effective 01 March 2015), Undergraduate Nuclear Coordinator, Course Director (MSc in Nuclear Engineering)
Computational Science Support Specialist
Fiona Thomson
Student Office Manager
Claire Tibble
Research Operations Officer
Sonia Tomasetig
Senior PA to the Head of Department
Emma Warriss
PA and Project Manager to the Centre for Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Fraser Wigley
Head of Technical Support
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The Department is unique in the UK for the breadth of its coverage of Materials Science and Engineering, both by the extent of its multi-disciplinary approach and by the range of materials covered in teaching and research.
Mohammad Adabi
Research Support Technician
Benjamin Wood
Research Support Technician
Sabrina Skeete
Biomaterials Technician
Russell Stracey
RSM Workshop Supervisor
Ecaterina Ware
Characterisation Facilities Assistant
Benjamin Chan Technician
Garry Stakalls Technician
Michael Lennon
RSM Workshop Technician
Jason Hoadley Technician
Research officers Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer in Electron Microscopy
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Junior Research Officer in Materials Characterisation
Dr Richard Chater
Senior Research Officer
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer in Surface Analysis
Dr Peter Petrov
Research Officer in Thin Film Technology
Richard Sweeney
Dr Louise Connell
Dr Sergey Belyakov
Dr Doni Daniel
Dr Ayan Bhowmik
Dr Laura Frisk
Dr Ioan Botiz
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann
Dr Ester Buchaca-Domingo
Dr Victoria Garcia Rocha
Dr Paola Campagnolo
Dr Stephen Hanham
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
Dr Margaret Holme
Dr Rona Chandrawati
Dr Darya Kiryushko
Dr Robert Chapman
Dr Damia Mawad
Dr Shu Chen
Doctoral Prize Fellow Research Fellow
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Experienced Researcher Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
Dr Catriona McGilvery
Research Fellow in Advanced Electron Microscopy
Dr Na Ni
Imperial Junior Research Fellow
Dr Zhan Yuin Ong
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
Dr Subinoy Rana
Dr Michael Albro
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
Dr Andrey Berenov Research Fellow
Dr Sergio Bertazzo
Imperial Junior Research Fellow
Dr Jon Breeze
Research Fellow
Dr Ciro Chiappini
Marie Curie Independent International Incoming Fellow
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Research Associate
Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate
Dr Lesley Chow
Research Associate
Dr Robert Davies
Research Associate
Dr Derfogail Delcassian Research Associate
Dr Andrew Duff
Research Associate
Dr Paul Fossati
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca Dr Daniel Glymond
Dr Cephas Small
Dr Daniel Gonzalez Carter
Marie Curie Independent International Incoming Fellow Imperial Junior Research Fellow
Dr Xin Wang
Research Fellow in Ceramics
Postdoctoral research associates Dr Nasrin Al Nasiri
Research Associate
Dr Arbel Artzy-Schnirman Research Associate
Dr Helene Autefage Research Associate
Dr Toby Basey-Fisher Research Associate
Silver Medal Award
Research Associate
Research Associate
Dr Vassili Vorontsov
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow
Research Associate
REG Researcher (EMRP Researcher Excellence Grant)
Dr Neil Treat
Dr Ainara Aguadero
Research Associate
Dr Olena Shaforost
Dr Ignacio Villar Garcia
Research fellows
Research Associate
Research Associate
Senior Research Officer Research Officer in High Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Research Associate
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
HIGHLIGHTS
Technical staff
Dr T Ben Britton was awarded the 2014 Silver Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. This prize is awarded to a member under the age of 30, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the broad field of Materials Science, Engineering and Technology, including promotion of their subject on a national or international basis.
Research Associate Research Associate
Dr Kristina Kareh
Dr Angela Goode
Research Associate
Dr Christine-Maria Horejs
Research Associate
Dr Denis Horlait
Research Associate
Dr Robert Horton
Research Associate
Dr Philip Howes
Research Associate
Dr Samuel Humphry-Baker
Research Associate
Dr Jun Jiang
Research Associate
Dr Sudha Joseph
Research Associate
Dr Tea-Sung Jun
Research Associate
Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate
Dr Eunjung Kim
Dr Florian Le Goupil Dr Siwei Li
Dr Yiyang Lin Dr Li Ping Lu
Dr Jaime Martin Perez Dr Andrei Mihai Dr Karin Muller
Dr Geoffrey Nelson Research Associate
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Dr Maelig Ollivier Research Associate
Dr Bin Zou
Research Associate
Dr Freddy Oropeza Palacio Research Associate
Dr Eugene Pashuck III Research Associate
Dr Imran Patel
Research assistants and early stage researchers James Gilchrist
Research Associate
Research Assistant
Dr Niranjan Patra
Celia Pacheco Moreno
Research Associate
Research Assistant
Dr Benjamin Pierce
Anu Solanki
Research Associate
Research Assistant
Dr Stevin Pramana
Francesco Reale
Research Associate
Research Assistant
Dr Jennifer Puetzer
Lucy Goff
Research Associate
Research Assistant
Dr Jiahui Qi
Elena Littmann
Research Associate
Early Stage Researcher
Dr Mezan Rahman
Gil Machado
Research Associate
Early Stage Researcher
Dr Mikael Rasander
Claudio Ferraro
Research Associate
Early Stage Researcher
Dr Benjamin Richards
Francesca Tallia
Research Associate
Early Stage Researcher
Dr Pakatip Ruenraroengsak Research Associate
Dr Michael Rushton Research Associate
Dr Manuela Russo Research Associate
Dr Juna Sathian
Research Associate
Dr Andrea Serio
Research Associate
Dr Arash Soleiman Fallah Research Associate
Dr Christopher Spicer Research Associate
Dr Jean-Philippe St-Pierre Research Associate
Dr Stevin Pramana Research Associate
Dr Florent Tonus
Research Associate
Dr Xu Wu
Research Associate
Dr Xiaoxue Zhang Research Associate
Dr Xin-Fang Zhang Research Associate
Dr Zhen Zhang
Research Associate
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Visiting and emeritus staff Dr Nadav Amdursky
Sponsored Researcher
Dr Yuelei Bai
Sponsored Researcher
Emeritus Professor J Geoff Ball Emeritus Professor
Professor Aldo Roberto Boccaccini Visiting Professor
Dr Peter Brown
Visiting Professor
Dr Faffaella Carzaniga Visiting Researcher
Dr Anthony Centeno
Visiting Research Fellow
Professor Manish Chhowalla Visiting Professor
Dr Alexander Chroneos Honorary Lecturer
Dr Spencer Crowder Sponsored Researcher
Fei Dou
Sponsored Researcher
Professor Mark Dowsett Visiting Professor
Dr Urs Duerig
Professor Lawrence Dunne
Dr Eleanor Schofield
Dr Mamdouh El-Shanawany
Dr Neil Smart
Dr Graham Fairhall
Ke Jie Tan
Dr Peter Gammon
Dr Ali Tehrani
Professor Vernon Gibson FRS
Jianping Wei
Dr Ling Hao
Professor Roger Whatmore
Dr Robert Harker
Professor Laurence Williams
Dr Alison Harrison
Professor Jim Williamson
Professor Larry Hench
Professor John Wood
Professor Arthur Heuer
Professor Bilge Yildiz
Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Professor
Visiting Research Fellow Visiting Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Lecturer
Honorary Lecturer
Emeritus Professor of Ceramic Materials Visiting Professor
Honorary Lecturer Visiting Professor
Visting Researcher Visiting Professor Sponsored Researcher Senior Research Investigator Senior Research Fellow
Distinguished Research Fellow Visiting Professor Visiting Reader
Marion Hill
Visiting Lecturer
Professor David Holt
External Advisory Panel Dr Tasadduq Khan
(deceased 13 October 2014) Emeritus Professor
ONERA
Professor Douglas Inman
Professor Sybrand van der Zwaag
(deceased 19 June 2014) Senior Research Fellow
Delft University
Dame Sue Ion OBE FREng
Sellafield Ltd
Visiting Professor
Professor Tatsumi Ishihara Visiting Professor
Dr Tasadduq Khan Visiting Professor
Professor Peter Lee Visiting Professor
Professor Trevor Lindley
Senior Research Investigator
Dr Duncan MacLachlan
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Manuel Mazo
Visiting Researcher
Professor David McComb Adjunct Professor
Brian Metcalfe
Dr Neil Smart (Chair) Dr Steve Paterson Shell UK
Steve Dearden Rolls-Royce plc
Dr David Farrar
Smith and Nephew Research Centre
Dr Peter Brown DSTL
Professor Derek Fray
University of Cambridge
Professor Nicola Marzari EPFL
Professor Eva Olsson
Chalmers University of Technology
Professor Anne Borg
Visiting Lecturer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Professor Kenneth Mills
Dr Urs Duerig
Visiting Professor
IBM Research
Professor Tony Paxton
Dr Andrew Hosty
Visiting Professor
The Morgan Crucible Company plc
Professor Rees Rawlings
The Hon. Angad Paul
Visiting Professor
Caparo Industries plc
Visiting Professor
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The vast breadth of expertise our academics bring to the Department enables us to remain at the forefront of teaching and research across the range of activities central to the Materials discipline. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS First year MEng Materials
First year MEng Biomaterials
Science and Engineering
and Tissue Engineering
First year MEng Aerospace Materials Banerjee Kieron Rogers Samuel
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Xinping Fan First year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering Noor Mulheron Alexander Orchard Zackary Youssef Tingyuan Zheng First year BEng Materials Science and Engineering Yanran Chen Bojian Feng Laura Ford Ievgenii Gettse Xin He Rowan Hedgecock Myles Holbrough Tingting Huang Xianzhao Liu Tengzhou Ma Thomas McClintock Nafisah Mohd Rafiq Donghun Nam Zijie Sha Phin Ting Bingyao Wang Sun Wong First year BEng Materials with Management Robin de Meyere Bogdan Dovgyy Shuainan Nie Zuiyi Shen George Wilson Second year MEng Materials Science and Engineering Yewande Adesida Oscar Bagoole Alexis Belessiotis Ahmed Belkarty Marc Bochereau Yi Cheong Jules Cheongvee Matthew Cheung Dhitaya Chulajata Simon Escobar Steinvall
Second year BEng Materials Science and Engineering Tristan Avory Nuttibase Charupeng Jingyi Chen Weng Chio Mon-Sen Chou Thomas Defferriere Bo Ding Bowen Guan Nils Kemen Siyu Li Benjamin Parton Alexandra Sanchez Thompson Nozomi Satake Yu Shi Chengsong Su Brian Sum Yuanbo Tang Julien Thevenard
HIGHLIGHTS
Alexis Abayomi Arman Amirzhan Valentine Assal Julian Buchinger Kwan Chan Si Chen Nak Choi Marco D’Agostini Brigita Darminto Tristan Dell Carolina Eiras Sa Max Emmanuel Edward Frost Yulin Gao Muhammad Ghazali Radim Hart Jack Humble Daisy May Key Yanli Kuang May Hsim Lai Jonathan Leong Yiming Lin Denys Lutsenko Qasim Mahmood Debesh Mandal Robert McPherson Martin Mozdzen Vishnu Pillai Joseph Pitkethly Milla Puolamaa Chenguang Qu Adelowo Rhodes Syafiqah Saiful Yazan Neil Sam-Soon Ramon Sanchez Hevia Surina Sharma Ha Shin James Smith Jeremy Smith Sophia Televantos Yiyang Tian Sophia Todhunter Dai Wan Dengyiming Wang Hao Wen Yi Yao Aiganym Yermembetova Alexandre Zoetelief Tromp
Andrew Halls Joseph Hosier Yueh Hsu Yue Hu Sean Hyer Vyas Iyer Min Jin Andrew Johns Enrique Juan Alcocer Thomas Kwok Linfeng Lan Khang Le Lassi Leppilahti Chong Liu Qingyang Lu Anshumaan Maheshwari Lukas Malms Isaac McClellan Aneesh Misra Robin Newman Merlin Potter-Adams Aloisius Purnama Yi Qiu Tobias Reed-Sperrin Iacopo Maria Russo Zachary Slingsby-Smith Gene Stein Oliver Stephenson Araya Taechamahaphant Dexin Tang Henry Wearing Samuel Wheeler Anna Williams Hong Wong Anyi Yang Tsung Yang Duae Zehra Raymond Zhan Chaoyi Zhu Xiaoxi Zhu Yifan Zong
Institute of Materials Prize
Second year MEng Aerospace Materials Wasin Laksanakarn Second year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering Oliver Adams Thomas Floreani Atsuhide Miyagi Vlad Podgurschi
Hannah Puccetti was awarded the Institute of Materials Prize, valued at £200. This prize is awarded to a final year undergraduate student of the Department of Materials for performance during the whole of his/ her undergraduate course. In addition to examination results, particular attention is given to character, personality and to participation in general College or university activities.
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people POSTGRADUATE taught STUDENTS Chayapat Thongsri Dimitri Varotsis Chengang Xu Emmilyn Yeoh Zi Yi Qi Zeng Han Zhao Tingzhi Zheng
Third year MEng
Fourth year MEng
MSc in Nuclear
Biomaterials and Tissue
Materials Science and
Engineering
Engineering
Engineering
Pia-Theresa Budde Hamizah Mohd Nor Irina Mahmad Rasid Carole Ng Jacob Tyszka
Second year BEng Materials with Management Max Mersch
Third year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering Xuan Ye
Third year MEng Materials Science and Engineering Amirah Abdul Aziz Sophie Andrew Thomas Bennett Lars Blumenthal Mario Coxon Hui Fong Hannah Hill Matthew Howard Leanne Johnston Alastair Jones Deana Kwong Hong Tsang Karen Lai Alex Lai Cheng Lao Ka Law Christopher Lawrence Jing Lee Marc Lelong Stanley Liu Hemant Morjaria Alexandra Orrin Pawel Palczynski Leon Pay Oliver Pia Joe Protheroe Luke Salter Gabriel Sonnet Milan Thakore Hayley Turner Tiesheng Wang Laura Wheatcroft DanYang Wu Daryl Yee Wei Liang Yuning Zhou
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Third year BEng Materials Science and Engineering Ali Alkhawajah Theo Bystrom Soo Hong Samantha Jiang Justin Leung Fang Li Kailun Li Justin Lim Shaoyang Liu Samuel Loke Yi Low Yue Lu Feixueer Luo Zeye Lv Francesca Mazzone Valerie Osband Sarut Phongpetra Hannah Puccetti Yuji Shimokawa Kelly Yanisa Srirungkitsward Jonathan Steeves Adisorn Techanitisawad Haomin Wang Theodore Wou Xiangyu Xie Justin Yang Yuen Yiu Third year BEng Materials with Management Jack Ah Teck Kar Chan Songyan Huang John Lee Zijun Wei
Shardul Biwalkar Karissa Chan Thomas Cosnahan Alexandru Crisan Jack Evans Gavin Robert Green Toller Hao Luca Iuzzolino Faizan Javed Harpal Khing Seo Kim Cong Lu Natasha Lunn Amar Mody Thomas Moss-Mccrory Christopher Ogunlesi Tian Sang William Stocker Haow Bin Tee John Wheatley Nicholas Whiteway Shengda Xu Yuzhou Zheng Fourth year MEng Aerospace Materials Salome Chabran Fourth year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Fanny Dehaine Paul Jones
Tunde Adigun Emmanuel Andrieu Atyab Calloo Anne Callow Ke Deng Antoine Ducloux Conor Galvin Elizabeth Howett Md Islam Bek Kairoshev Alif Shuhaimi Kristijonas Plauoinaitis Joanna Playbell Sebastian Russell-Smith Jamie Sahote Wei Wu Noratiqah Yaakop Gebril El Fallah MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Yanika Agius Caroline Alglave Joao Neves Tommaso Giovannini Jing Guan Ning Hou Yan Huang Ismaila Ibrahim Arun Ichangi Goziem Isichei Ye Jiang Suchanond Kaewjinda Supachai Kerdsuk Qian Li Shaobo Li Qingxin Lin Florence Maliar Fionnan McNamara Nur Mohd Annuar Maurizio Morbidoni Wanxin Peng Bo Ren Xiaohe Ren Marion Roger Xiaoguang Song Naomi Vella Chenfei Wang
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In recent years, well over 90% of students have completed their theses within four years, and the great majority publish at least some of their work in leading peer review journals.
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS Wenshuo Xu Shoaib Zafar Zuochao Zhao Feichi Zhou Liang Zhu Yi Zhu Yuyi Zhu
First year postgraduates
MSc IN Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials Zahra Abuali Zhen Lun Li Maral Mahlooji Atbin Malayeri Mariam Mohamed Alfonso Muinelo Herranz Konstantinos Pietris Sujata Ravi Johanna Schmidt Amal Sefrioui Pannita Snidvongs Na Ayudhaya Lucien Talvard Marianne Thaila Alain Vella
HIGHLIGHTS
Biotechnology YES J oseph Steele was part of one of two finalist teams of entrepreneurial researchers selected to compete in Biotechnology YES 2013. Biotechnology YES is a business plan competition for hypothetical biotechnology and environmental start-up companies.
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October 2013 cohort Mohammad Adabi Olasunkanmi Adande Shweta Agarwal Robert Bain Bartosz Barzdajn Theresa Davey Anna Fricker Claudia Gasparrini Chiara Grotta Thomas Haynes Matthew Jackson Kevin Kahn Michaella Kapnisi Zhenqi Li Muzi Li Chen-Sheng Lin Wei Liu Zhaolong Ma Allen Madamombe Ali Mohammed Nur Muhammad Nadzri Benjamin Nash Annalisa Neri Christian Niedermeier Tsvetoslav Pavlov Dimitri Pletser James Quirk Francesco Reale Maciej Rokosz Giorgio Sernicola Zonghao Shen Aaron Thong Vivian Tong Shih-Ting Wang Rui Wang Chi Wong Jiaqi Zhang Zebang Zheng Second year postgraduates October 2012 cohort Jennifer Alex Benjamin Bell Cyri Besnard Farah Ismail Polina Brangel Claire Burgess Justin Chung Mitchell Cuddihy Tomiwa Erinosho Peter Evans Claudio Ferraro Sarah Greasley Sonia Hallen
Rachael Harrison Coline Jumeaux Juhan Kahk Charalambos Kallepitis Yong Kim Dorothy Latham Tsz Lee Mabel Lew Cheng Li Elena Littmann Wenjun Lu Yongkun Luo Giovanni Luongo Gil Machado Mohd Mahat Robert Maller Setareh Monajem-Isfahani Constant Morez Paul Mulvey Maria Nelson Mathew Niania Amy Nommeots-Nomm Celia Maria Pacheco Moreno Paresh Parmar Lucia Podhorska Yoann Porte Daniel Price Anna Radecka Caroline Riedel Hao Shang Richard Simons Anu Solanki Francesca Tallia Hung Ting Hei Tsui Peter Tympel Celeste van den Bosch Robert Walker Victor Wan Alex Wang Clare Watts Ji Wu Jingwei Xian Amanda You Tiantian Zhang Xuemei Zhang Third year postgraduates October 2011 cohort Anna Antoniou Laurentiu Braic Emily Brooke Patrick Burr Omar Cedillos Barraza Tamara Chapman Michael Cooper Samuel Cooper
Eleonora D’Elia Evgeniy Donchev Carina Dos Santos Almeida Bernadette Elliott-Bowman Stefan Goniszewski George Harrington Cassandra Harris Robert Harrison Karla-Luise Herpoldt Zoltan Hiezl Andrew Hodgson Matthew Horton Charles Hutchison Sajjad Jaffer Anthony Macon Jodie Melbourne Kharissa Nitiputri Christopher Poll Alberto Scaccabarozzi Giuseppe Scatigno Jun Soh Kyasha Sri Ranjan Joseph Steele Stephen Tay Ioannis Theodorou Hsiang-Han Tseng Saif Ur Rehman Hannah Weekes Fourth year postgraduates October 2010 cohort Nor Ezzaty Ahmad John Alexander Tansel Arif Robert Bell Ci’En Chang Edoardo Giorgi Ming He Robert Hewlett Michal Klosowski Matthias Knop Bey Leo William Montague Basmah Othman Jing Pang Kien Cuong Pham Amanda Quadling Wouter van den Bergh Clementine Walker
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MANAGEmENT STRUCTURE
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The Department of Materials is committed to exhibiting best practice in all aspects of its decision-making and departmental affairs. The committees and groups listed below have ultimate responsibility for directing the activity of the Department, ensuring it is well run and that it delivers the outcomes for which it has been set up. Membership of the various committees and their roles are described below.
Departmental management and committee structure
Head of Department
Safety Committee
External Advisory Panel
Management Committee
Academic staff meeting
Athena Self-Assessment Team
Director of UG Studies
Senior Tutor
Centralised Facilities Committee
Research staff Committee
PG Tutor
Director of Research
Director of PG Studies
Technical Staff and Research Officers Committee
PG Committee
Technical staff Committee
Teaching Committee UG Staff-Student Committee
PG Staff-student Committee
Departmental Operations Manager
Research Committee
Support Staff Committee
The Department is run using a committee structure as illustrated in the chart above
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MANAGEmENT STRUCTURE
HIGHLIGHTS
Professor Stephen Skinner Director of Facilities
Fiona Thomson Claire Tibble
The Hon. Angad Paul
Meeting Secretary
Fraser Wigley
DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (DMC) Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Chair, Head of Department
Dr David Dye
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Department Operations Manager
Dr David Payne
Academic Without Portfolio
Dr Peter Petrov
Department Safety Officer
Professor Jason Riley
Director of Research
Professor Mary Ryan
Athena Swan/Equalities representative
Head of Technical Support This is the Department’s most senior advisory and policy-making committee and is chaired by the Head of Department. It meets monthly to assist the Head of Department in discharging his duties and has responsibility for upholding the Department’s mission statement, writing and ratifying the Five Year Plan, ratifying other Committees’ decisions, managing risks, and finalising the budget. The Chair communicates all key decisions at Academic Staff meetings. The DMC is quorate with 5+ members in attendance.
ACADEMIC STAFF MEETINGS Chaired by the Head of Department, Academic staff meetings are held every two months to discuss Department, Faculty, College, national and international issues. These meetings are attended by academic staff, research officers and senior support staff.
EXTERNAL ADVISORY PANEL External members:
Caparo Industries plc
Dr Neil Smart (Chair) Sellafield Ltd
Professor Sybrand van der Zwaag
Delft University
Caroline Detchenique
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer
Dr David Dye
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor Julian Jones
Senior Undergraduate Tutor
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Departmental Operations Manager
Dr David Farrar
Smith and Nephew Research Centre
Professor Derek Fray
University of Cambridge
Dr Andrew Hosty
The Morgan Crucible Company plc
Dr Tasadduq Khan ONERA
Professor Nicola Marzari
Dr Rongshan Qin
Careers/Placements
Professor Mary Ryan
Professor Jason Riley
Fiona Thomson
Chaired by the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS) this committee is responsible for all aspects of the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses including overseeing programme specifications, regulations, timetabling, assessment and examinations, coursework, student welfare and responding to external factors such as College policy, external examiners’ reports, SOLE (Student On Line Evaluation) responses and course accreditation. The Chair also represents the Department on the Faculty’s Engineering Studies and Teaching Committees.
Director of Research
Clare Tibble
Research Operations Officer The panel meets once a year in London and its main remit is to act in an advisory role to the Head of Department, Departmental Management Committee and its subcommittees, in particular:
Rolls-Royce plc
IBM Research
Fourth Year Coordinator
Student Office Manager
Head of Department
Steve Dearden Dr Urs Duerig
Dr Arash Mostofi
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
The meeting is chaired by an external member.
DSTL
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
Internal members:
Dr Peter Brown
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Professor Julian Jones
Senior Undergraduate Tutor
First and Second Year Coordinator
• T o provide advice on the structure and content of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses provided by the Department. • To provide advice on the strategic research focus of the Department.
Professor Anne Borg
EPFL
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Dr Steve Paterson
Shell UK
Sonia Tomasetig
The Staff-Student Committee is a forum in which students can raise points of concern, make suggestions and get responses from staff regarding the undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses. It meets twice a term in the autumn and spring terms and once in the summer term.
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Student Office Manager
Research Operations Officer
The StaffStudent Committee
Professor Eva Olsson
STAFF-STUDENT COMMITTEE Dr T Ben Britton
Course Director (MSc in Nuclear Engineering)
Caroline Detchenique
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer
Raj Gill
Meeting Secretary, Student Office Administrator and Administrator for MSc courses
Dr Finn Giuliani
Third Year Coordinator
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies
TEACHING COMMITTEE Dr T Ben Britton
Course Director (MSc in Nuclear Engineering)
Dr Iain Dunlop
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Finn Giuliani
Professor Julian Jones
Senior Undergraduate Tutor
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr Arash Mostofi
Fourth Year Coordinator
Mike Mussard
Third Year Coordinator
ICT Liaison
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Professor Mary Ryan
Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Exams Coordinator
First and Second Year Coordinator
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THE DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (DMC) has responsibility for upholding the Department’s mission statement, writing and ratifying the Five Year Plan, ratifying other Committees’ decisions, managing risks, and finalising the budget.
Fiona Thomson
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Student Office Manager
Department Operations Manager
Nicole Urquhart
Dr Peter Petrov
Dr Florent Tonus / Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca
Postdoctoral staff representatives
Library Liaison
Department Safety Officer
All Postdoctoral research staff
levgenii Gettse / Laura Ford
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez
Chaired by the Postdoctoral research staff mentor, this committee is a forum to discuss issues relevant to PDRA researchers in the Department including safety, space, facilities and career development.
Student Representatives (Year 1)
lacopo Russo / Julien Thevenard
Chair, Postgraduate Tutor
Professor Natalie Stingelin
Student Representatives (Year 2)
PDRA Mentor
Lars Blumenthal / Yuji Shimokawa Kelly
Fiona Thomson
Student Representatives (Year 3)
Thomas Cosnahan
Chair, Student Representative (Year 4)
Sebastian Russell-Smith
Student Representative (MSc in Nuclear Engineering)
Student Representatives (MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering)
Carole Ng
Departmental Representative The Staff-Student Committee is a forum in which students can raise points of concern, make suggestions and get responses from staff regarding the undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses. It meets twice a term in the autumn and spring terms and once in the summer term. The committee is normally chaired by a student representative and is composed of academic staff from the teaching committee, undergraduate year representatives, the student departmental representative on the union committee, and representatives from ICT and the library. The student office administrator acts as the secretary. The student office manager and DUGS jointly prepare the agenda. There are two year representatives from the first, second and third years and one from the fourth year and student representatives for each of the Masters courses. The Staff-Student Committee meeting is immediately followed by a Teaching Committee meeting, chaired by the DUGS. At this meeting, students provide their thoughts on items on the Teaching Committee agenda, which are then considered at the next staff-only Teaching Committee meeting.
GRADSOC COMMITTEE Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Head of Department
Dr David Dye
Director of Postgraduate Studies
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Daniel Price
Student Safety Representative
Astrid Armgarth / Kella Kapniski
Student Representatives (Year 1)
Sonia Hallen / Richard Simons
Student Representatives (Year 2)
Joseph Steele
Student Representative (Year 3)
Evgeniy Donchev
Departmental Representative This committee meets four times a year to discuss issues relevant to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers including safety, space and facilities. It also highlights concerns raised by the ROLE (Researchers On Line Evaluation) responses, organises the Department’s Postgraduate Research Day and encourages social events.
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RESEARCH COMMITTEE Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Functional Materials, Head of Department
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Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Engineering Alloys
Professor Mike Finnis
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Professor Peter Haynes
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Department Operations Manager
Professor Jason Riley
Chair, Director of Research
Professor Mary Ryan
Nanotechnology and Nanoscale characterisation
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez
POSTGRADUATE COMMITTEE Dr David Dye
Ceramics and Glasses
Professor Stephen Skinner
Chair, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Director of Facilities, Ceramics and Glasses
Dr Christopher Gourlay
Professor Molly Stevens FREng
Professor Peter Haynes
Claire Tibble
Deputy Postgraduate Admissions Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez
Postgraduate Tutor
Fiona Thomson
Meeting Secretary
Claire Tibble
Research Operations Officer The main aim of this committee is to ensure the smooth administration of the postgraduate programme.
RESEARCH STAFF COMMITTEE Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager, Meeting Secretary
Professor Natalie Stingelin
Chair, Postdoctoral Research Staff Mentor
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Chenfei Wang / Tommaso Giovannini
Student Office Manager
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internationally through a range of activities including assisting with nominations for fellowships of learned societies, recommendations for award of prizes, and nominations for invited and keynote lectures; overseeing Department Research Assessment submissions. Ensuring academics are aware of funding opportunities and facilitating collaborative bids where appropriate. Interfacing with the Faculty Research Committee. Advising on research areas/profiles of members and arranging an annual meeting of the External Advisory Panel. Formulating the seminar programme.
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Meeting Secretary, Research Operations Officer Chaired by the Director of Research, the aim of the Research Committee is to improve the quality and volume of research performed within the Department and to facilitate multidisciplinary interactions. This is achieved by: • E volving the departmental research strategy, linked to the Departmental Business Plan and the Faculty Research Strategy, identifying new equipment needs, including funding and space, and identifying future opportunities, and how to grow these internally and through interaction at Faculty, College, National and International levels. • Enabling the best research profile by: raising the esteem of each academic nationally and
Teaching Committee Chaired by the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS) this committee is responsible for all aspects of the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses including overseeing programme specifications, regulations, timetabling, assessment and examinations, coursework, student welfare and responding to external factors such as College policy, external examiners’ reports, SOLE (Student On Line Evaluation) responses and course accreditation.
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MANAGEmENT STRUCTURE
• Producing an annual Research in Progress booklet. The committee meets 4–6 times a year.
Adrian Dorrington
Chief Fire Officer, Fire Safety Office
Guy Fairhurst
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Building Manager
HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Chair, Head of Department
Ezra Feilden-Irving
Undergraduate Safety Representative
Stephen Greenwood
Faculty Safety Manager
Dr Eileen Cheng
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Surrinder Johal
First Aid
Safety Director, Health and Safety Services
Julia Cotton
College Safety Auditor
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Kenneth Keating
Departmental Safety Officer (Bioengineering)
Jason Coyne
Meeting Secretary
Darakshan Khan
Simon Davies
Display Screen Equipment Advisor
Departmental Safety Officer (Earth Science & Engineering)
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John Luke
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College Safety Advisor, Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor
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Dr Peter Petrov
Departmental Safety Officer (Materials)
Daniel Price
Postgraduate Representative
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Sabrina Skeete
Biological Safety Advisor
Professor Stephen Skinner Chemical Safety Advisor
Centralised Facilities Committee
Dr Cephas Small
Research Staff Representative
Russell Stracey
Manual Handling Assessor and Trade Union Representative
Richard Sweeney
The Centralised Facilities Committee’s main aims are to: • M onitor the funding, maintenance and utilisation of the central facilities. • Ensure that the facilities are accessible to all College members at an appropriate cost. • Identify areas where investment and development are necessary, and to propose funding applications to address these requirements.
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Fraser Wigley
Head of Technical Support The remit of the Departmental Health and Safety Committee is to advise and assist the Head of Department in the effective discharge of his health and safety responsibilities and in this respect to: • P romote a positive health and safety culture by, for example: – Ensuring effective communication of health and safety information. – Disseminating best practice across the Department. – On an occasional basis, conducting its own safety inspections and audits. • Monitor, review and advise on the local arrangements for the implementation of College health and safety policies, procedures and codes of practice. • Monitor, review and advise on the Department Health and Safety Risk Register, which sets out the
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principal hazards and risks present in the Department. Monitor new initiatives and grant proposals being put forward by the Department, consider the health and safety implications of any new hazards which have been identified, and advise on the appropriate mitigating action. Monitor, review and advise on the induction and specialist training provided for all departmental staff, students, visitors and contractors. Monitor, review and advise on the inspection and audit programme of the Department health and safety performance, receive the resultant reports and recommend action as appropriate. Act as the departmental forum for consultation with staff and students on health and safety matters. Ensuring that there is proper coordination, cooperation and communication with other users of shared and/or adjacent space, for example through the consideration of reports from building user groups. Monitor and review the arrangements for dealing with emergencies and the provisions for emergency evacuations, evacuation drills, first aid and reporting accidents, incidents and noncompliances. Receive reports of accidents, near misses and work-related health problems and monitor follow up action as appropriate. Consider reports from trades union and employee safety representatives.
The Departmental Health and Safety Committee meets once a term and is chaired by the Head of Department.
CENTRALISED FACILITIES COMMITTEE Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer (Electron Microscopy)
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Junior Research Officer (Materials Characterisation)
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer (Surface Analysis)
Dr Finn Giuliani
Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
Dr David McPhail
Manager (Surface Analysis facility)
Dr Michelle Moram
Dr David Payne
Manager (High Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy facility)
Dr Peter Petrov
Research Officer (Thin Film Laboratory), Department Safety Officer
Professor Stephen Skinner Chair, Director of Facilities
Russell Stracey
RSM workshop manager
Richard Sweeney
Senior Research Officer (XRD/Thermal Analysis)
Claire Tibble
Meeting Secretary, Research Operations Officer
Dr Ignacio Villar Garcia
Research Officer (Ambient High Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy)
Chaired by the Director of Facilities, the Centralised Facilities Committee’s main aims are to: • M onitor the funding, maintenance and utilisation of the central facilities. • Ensure that the facilities are accessible to all College members at an appropriate cost. • Identify areas where investment and development are necessary, and to propose funding applications to address these requirements. The committee meets three times a year.
SUPPORT STAFF MEETINGS The main aim of these meetings is to ensure that support staff are kept informed of matters affecting the Department and to help them ensure appropriate support is delivered. The committee meets two times a year and is chaired by the Departmental Operations Manager. All support staff are invited to attend.
TECHNICAL STAFF & RESEARCH OFFICERS COMMITTEE Mohammad Adabi
Research Support Technician
Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer (Electron Microscopy)
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Meeting Secretary, Junior Research Officer (Materials Characterisation)
Manager (Atomic Force Microscopy facility)
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ATHENA SELF-ASSESSMENT TEAM
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Chair, Department Operations Manager
Professor Jason Riley
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Senior Research Officer
Head of Department
Director of Research
Dr Eileen Cheng
Dr Liz Elvidge
Postgraduate Tutor
Dr Richard Chater
Lab Technician in Tissue Engineering
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer (Surface Analysis)
Jason Hoadley Technician
Michael Lennon
Mechanical Workshop Technician
Dr Catriona McGilvery Research Fellow
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Department Operations Manager
Dr Peter Petrov
Postdoc Development Centre, Athena Assessor
Dr Sandrine Heutz
Academic staff representative (Reader)
Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager
Dr Suze Kundu
Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer
Dr David Payne
Academic staff representative (Lecturer)
Professor Mary Ryan
Chair, Athena Swan Coordinator
Safety Officer, Thin Film Technology Manager
Sonia Tomasetig
Professor Jason Riley
Postdoctoral research staff representative
Sabrina Skeete
Postgraduate student representative
Garry Stakalls
Undergraduate student representative
Russell Stracey
The Athena Self-Assessment Team (SAT) is chaired by the Departmental Athena Swan Coordinator. The SAT meets on a bi-monthly basis and its remit is to:
Chair, Director of Research Biomaterials Technician Technician
RSM Workshop Supervisor
Richard Sweeney
Senior Research Officer (XRD/Thermal Analysis)
Dr Ignacio Villar Garcia
Research Officer (Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy)
Ecaterina Ware
Characterisation Facilities Technician
Fraser Wigley
Head of Technical Support
Benjamin Wood
Research Support Technician Chaired by the Director of Research, the main aims of the Technical Staff & Research Officers Committee are to: • E nsure that all technical staff are kept informed of matters affecting their work in the Department. • Seek advice from the technical staff regarding research and teaching laboratory activities, the purchase of new equipment and repair and maintenance of existing equipment.
The committee meets monthly. Alternate meetings are attended by technical staff only and are chaired by the Head of Technical Support.
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• M onitor recruitment, progression and the retention of all staff. • Look at the systems in the Department to make sure they are fair, transparent and accessible. • Ensure the Department continues its commitment to advance gender equality and enhance the working environment. • Consider issues of strategic relevance, plan how best to address issues of concern and how best to optimise and disseminate current good practice. • Ensure that changes are made to practices within the Department and that these are communicated to the staff.
SPACE COMMITTEE Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Head of Department
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Darakshan Khan
Meeting Secretary, Departmental Resources Manager
HIGHLIGHTS
Benjamin Chan
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez Fraser Wigley
Head of Technical Support Representatives from each research theme: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Ceramics and Glasses, Engineering Alloys, Functional Materials, Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Characterisation, Theory and Simulation of Materials. The committee aims to ensure optimal configuration of the space available to the Department. This means: For research: • A nticipating and allocating the space requirements for new research equipment/facilities. • Anticipating and allocating the space requirements for new research labs. For teaching: • E nsuring teaching labs and lecture theatres are fit for purpose. For the working environment: • E nsuring office and communal areas are efficiently configured and conducive to productive working. Specific roles in relation to these aims are: • D etermine the policy and procedure for desk allocations to postdoctoral research staff, postgraduate students, academic visitors and other fixed term research staff. This will then be implemented by the Departmental Resources Manager. • Allocate the space committee’s annual budget to small reconfiguration projects within the Department. • Ensure prioritisation of medium to large scale reconfiguration projects. These projects will then be considered by the Head of Department for inclusion in the Department’s annual budgets. • Individual committee members to act as the champion (‘key user’) in reconfiguration projects and liaise with other relevant theme members to ensure optimal layout for users and the Department.
External Advisory Panel The panel meets once a year at Imperial and its main remit is to act in an advisory role to the Head of Department, Departmental Management Committee and its subcommittees, in particular: • T o provide advice on the structure and content of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses provided by the Department. • To provide advice on the strategic research focus of the Department.
The committee meets every month, alternating agenda items between short term and long term space considerations.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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From left to right: Dr David Payne, Paul Stein, Chief Scientific Officer, Rolls-Royce plc and Professor Molly Stevens FREng
We recognise the achievements of our staff and students. The stories here include prizes and awards, media mentions, innovative approaches to education, VIP visits as well as invitations to serve on high-profile committees.
Academic staff highlights potential nuclear research needs of Rolls-Royce plc.
atherine McKinnel, MP for Newcastle C North & Shadow Treasury Minister, visited the Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre and the Department of Materials in November 2013 to discuss industry uptake of research and innovation. Paul Stein, Chief Scientific Officer, Rolls-Royce plc, visited Imperial Materials to discuss the HexMat programme grant and the
rofessor Bill Lee FREng was awarded P the Lee Hsun Lecture Award by the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). The award honours research scientists who have made important achievements and great contributions to Materials Science and Engineering and who have promoted scientific cooperation and exchanges.
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rofessor Molly Stevens FREng P featured in The Wired Smart List 2013. She was selected by Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics, University of Surrey, who said: ‘Molly was one of the very early guests on my Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific and she was quite fascinating. What struck me most is her ability to bring so many different people from diverse disciplines together under one roof.’ Click here for the full list.
Humboldt Research Award
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n unusual collaboration of Alberto A Scaccabarozzi, Dr Ester BuchacaDomingo, Dr Christoph Hellman and Professor Natalie Stingelin with Mira Calix, an award-winning composer, artist and performer who works with electronic-based music to incorporate more classical orchestration, led to the new sonic-art experience The Sun is the Queen of Torches. The piece, initiated by TEDAlbertopolis and inspired by solar powered materials (photovoltaics), was presented at the Brighton Dome in December 2013.
Professor Mike Finnis was awarded the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. Humboldt Awards are granted in recognition of the lifetime achievements of an ‘internationally recognised scientist from another country, whose work has made a lasting impact on their own field and beyond, and from whom more top-class scientific achievements can be expected’.
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Below: Dr David Dye and Professor Robin Grimes FREng
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Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng was invited to Buckingham Palace in November 2013 to receive his MBE for services to Engineering.
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rofessor Bill Lee FREng and Professor P Robin Grimes FREng (in his capacity as Chief Scientific Advisor for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) were invited to become members of the Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB) which is chaired by Dame Sue Ion OBE FREng (Visiting Professor in the Department of Materials). NIRAB’s remit is to advise Ministers, Government
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Departments and Agencies on issues relating to nuclear research and innovation in the UK.
entitled: Bioactive materials could rebuild your body one day in Wired in April 2014. Click here for the full article.
r David Payne was elected to the D Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for Research Infrastructure. SATs exist to provide Theme Leaders at EPSRC with strategic advice that will assist them to develop, implement and modify plans.
rofessor Natalie Stingelin was P awarded the 2014 Rosenhain Medal and Prize by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. The prize is awarded to candidates under the age of 40 for distinguished achievement in any branch of Materials Science.
rofessor Neil Alford MBE FREng was P made Chair of the EPSRC’s Physical Sciences SAT. rofessor Robin Grimes FREng and P Dr Mark Wenman’s visit to Australia in April 2014 was reported in The Australian newspaper and featured in a news announcement on the University of NSW’s website. Robin and Mark delivered some of the course material of the Nuclear Engineering masters program at the university, under a new teaching partnership agreement between the University of NSW and Imperial’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy. esearch conducted by Professor R Molly Stevens FREng and her colleagues featured in an article
r T Ben Britton was awarded the D 2014 Silver Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. This prize is awarded to a member under the age of 30, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the broad field of materials science, engineering and technology, including promotion of their subject on a national or international basis. rofessor Molly Stevens FREng was P listed in Cells’ 40 under 40 list. Click here for the full list. rofessor Molly Stevens FREng was P awarded the 2014 Corday-Morgan Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Corday-Morgan prizes are awarded for the most meritorious contributions to chemistry.
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From left to right: Professor Natalie Stingelin, Dr T Ben Britton and Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Professor Natalie Stingelin was awarded the 2014 Rosenhain Medal and Prize by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. The prize is awarded to candidates under the age of 40 for distinguished achievement in any branch of materials science.
r David Dye was awarded the 2014 D Student Academic Choice by the Imperial College Student Union in the category of Innovation (teaching). Dr Luc Vandeperre was also shortlisted under the category of Best Tutoring.
r Helena Tellez, Dr John Druce, D Professor Tatsumi Ishihara and Professor John Kilner were awarded the Christian Friedrich Schoenbein Contribution to Science Medal at the 11th European SOFC and SOE Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July 2014, for their project entitled: Decrease of the electrochemically active surface in mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs) by impurity segregation.
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rofessor Neil Alford MBE FREng was P involved in the science media frenzy that followed the release of the new screen on the latest Apple iPhone 6 with interviews in the following publications: MIT Technology Review, Yahoo Tech, The Guardian and Cable.co.uk. r Theoni Georgiou was invited D to serve on the Macro Group UK committee. rofessor Molly Stevens FREng was P awarded the 2013 Karen Burt Memorial Award by the Women’s Engineering Society. The award is intended to encourage more women to aim for and celebrate the achievement of Chartered Engineer status.
Gottardi Prize Professor Julian Jones was awarded the 2014 Gottardi Prize by the International Commission on Glass. The prize is awarded annually to a young person with outstanding achievements in the field of glass in research and development, teaching, writing, management or commerce.
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rofessor Fionn Dunne FREng and Dr P Saira Naeem featured in an article in the May 2014 issue of International Innovation, explaining the research and rationale behind Heterogeneous Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across Length and Time Scales (HexMat). HexMat is a five-year collaborative EPSRC programme grant. International Innovation is a leading scientific dissemination service. Click here for the full article.
r Finn Giuliani won first prize for D Best Poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Thin Film and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior, Bentley University, MA, USA in July 2014 for his poster entitled: In-situ deformation of niobium interlayers.
rofessor Molly Stevens FREng and P her research group won the 2014 Research Group of the Year award by the European Life Science Awards.
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From left to right: Human heart (aortic valve) tissue displaying calcification, a calcified heart valve by Dr Sergio Bertazzo.
Images: Sergio Bertazzo, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Wellcome Images
Postdoctoral research staff highlights r Sergio Bertazzo was a finalist in the D International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for his image of a calcified heart valve. The competition is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science.
Dr Sergio Bertazzo received a 2014 Wellcome Image Award for a scanning electron micrograph of the surface of human heart valve (aortic valve) tissue. The awards recognise the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images, as chosen by a panel of judges.
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r Manuela Russo won a prize for Best D Oral Presentation at the Department of Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research Symposium 2014. The prize consisted of £100 (sponsored by Lenton) and a one-year subscription to Nature Materials. r Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca D and Dr Christine-Maria Horejs were joint runners up for the Best Oral Presentation prize at the Department of Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research Symposium in January 2014. The prize, sponsored by the CSI, was valued at £50. r Eleonora D’ Elia won a prize for Best D Poster Presentation at the Department of Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research Symposium 2014. The prize, sponsored by CSI, was valued at £100. r Cephas Small was runner up for D Best Poster Presentation prize at the
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Department of Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research Symposium 2014. The prize, sponsored by the Postdoc Development Centre, was valued at £50. r Sergey Belyakov won the Best D Poster award for his poster entitled: Influence of the IMC layer on nucleation undercooling of βSn in solder joints at the Pb-free Solders and Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Materials Symposium at TMS 2014 in San Diego, USA. Sergey is supervised by Dr Christopher Gourlay. r Jun Jiang won the Best Poster prize D at the annual RMS EBSD meeting for his poster entitled: Geometrically necessary dislocation grain orientation dependence study. Jun was invited to write a report on the conference which featured in Infocus magazine (issue 35, September 2014). Jun is supervised by Professor Fionn Dunne FREng and Dr T Ben Britton. r Kristina Kareh won the Best Poster D award at the EPSRC UK Solidification Workshop at Brunel University in April 2014. Kristina is supervised by Dr Christopher Gourlay.
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Dr Derfogail Delcassian and Christian Loftus, Into the Wind 2014
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded the 2014 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Medal for producing an outstanding doctoral thesis.
r Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded D the 2013 Rottendorf Research Prize by Rottendorf Pharma. The prize recognises excellent pharmaceutical research. r Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded D the 2014 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Medal for producing an outstanding doctoral thesis.
r Philip Howes won the Analyst D Poster Prize for his poster entitled: Quantum dots for multiplexed detection of microRNAs as biomarkers of myocardial fibrosis at the 2014 RSC Analytical Research Forum in July 2014. r Derfogail Delcassian and Christian D Loftus undertook an Expedition to Tasmania (Into the Wind 2014) in May 2014, funded by the Imperial College Exploration Board, and winning external funding from the Lord Mayor’s Trust. The group spent four weeks undertaking a long distance triathlon across the island, crossing from sea
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r Toby Basey-Fisher was awarded D the Constance Fligg Tipper Centenary Memorial Prize. The prize, valued at £100, is awarded annually to a completing PhD student showing the most industrial relevance and independence in research with outstanding contributions to Materials Science and Engineering. r Louise Connell was awarded the D Larry Hench Biomaterials Prize. The prize, valued at £100, recognises excellence in a PhD in a Biomaterialsrelated subject. r Jonathon Downing was awarded D the Matthey Prize. The prize, valued at £200, is awarded annually to an Associate of the Royal School of Mines for research completed in the Department of Materials.
OneStart Grand Prize
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r Lesley Chow was awarded D second prize for Best Poster at the Musculoskeletal Technology Network Meeting in April 2014.
to summit (and back to sea) by bike, boat and boot, exploring Tasmania’s range of niche ecosystems en route. The Exploration Board aims to support projects that reach a balance between straightforward scientific research and an adventurous holiday.
A recently established spin-out company founded by Dr Toby Basey-Fisher won £100k as a part of the 2014 OneStart grand prize to further develop a device for diagnosing anaemia, which uses optical technology. OneStart is an idea competition designed to inspire, encourage and assist the next generation of European bioentrepreneurs. The spin-out, Eva Diagnostics, was selected from over 100 competing companies.
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Postgraduate students highlights
Robert Charlton was awarded a highly competitive Imperial College PhD Scholarship to undertake a PhD in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Simulation of Materials. Recipients are amongst the highest achievers in their undergraduate cohort. Robert’s scholarship covers tuition fees and £20.2k stipend per annum for 4 years. Robert is supervised by Professor Peter Haynes.
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Imperial College PhD Scholarship
L injun Wei was a member of the AWE Ceramic and Glass Research Team given the 2014 MoD Chief Scientific Advisor Commendation Award. Linjun completed an MSc project entitled: Joining of boro-aluminate glasses to Ti6Al4V, Nilo 48, Nilo 52 and Kovar Alloys under the supervision of Professor Bill Lee FREng. hedtha Puncreobutr was awarded a C 2013 Educational Award for Excellence (Engineering field). This is an annual award for Thai students studying in the UK who have a record of outstanding performance during their PhD research. hree images by Yongkun Luo were T selected for the front cover of Surface Science, Volume 624, June, 2014. Yongkun is supervised by Dr Rongshan Qin. F rancesca Tallia was awarded the Best Poster Prize at 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials (ICFPAM), in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2013 for her poster entitled: Functionalisation of OH groups in
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polymers for Class II hybrids for bone substitution. Francesca is supervised by Professor Julian Jones and Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez on the BioBone ITN. ernadette Elliott-Bowman won the B Student Prize at THERMEC 2013, in Las Vegas in December 2013. Bernadette is supervised by Dr Rongshan Qin. e-Cheng Su was awarded a highly T competitive Imperial College PhD Scholarship. Recipients are amongst the highest achievers in their undergraduate cohort. The scholarship covers tuition fees and £20.2k stipend per annum for up to 3.5 years. TeCheng is supervised by Dr Christopher Gourlay. aoyao (Jane) Xiong was awarded a Y highly competitive Imperial College PhD Scholarship. Recipients are amongst the highest achievers in their undergraduate cohort. The scholarship covers tuition fees and £20.2k stipend per annum for up to 3.5 years. Jane is supervised by Professor Natalie Stingelin.
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laudio Ferraro was awarded first C prize for Best Poster Design and Layout at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014.
Thesis in the ceramics discipline as determined by the Director of the Structural Ceramics Centre based on the examiners’ report.
J oseph Steele was awarded the Don Pashley Memorial Prize and Medal for the Best Scientific Content of a Lecture given at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014. Second place went to Eleonora D’Elia.
ussell Woolley was awarded the John R Kilner Prize for Energy Materials. The prize, valued at £100, is awarded for excellence in a PhD study in any subject related to materials for application in energy conversion systems.
F rancesca Tallia was awarded first prize for Industrial Relevance at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014.
assan Tahini was awarded the TYC@ H Imperial prize. The prize, valued at £100, is awarded annually to the student who has demonstrated the most important and innovative contribution to research in the Theory and Simulation of Materials.
J orge Costa was awarded first prize for Best Scientific Content of a Poster at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014. arla-Luise Herpoldt was awarded first K prize for Best Public Speaker at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014. Second place went to George Harrington.
athide Jaona was awarded the RollsM Royce Prize in Nuclear Engineering. This prize, valued at £400, is awarded annually to the best student graduating from the MSc Nuclear Engineering degree programme.
J ianye Wang was awarded the Tony Evans Memorial Prize. The prize, valued at £100, is awarded annually to the student with the best PhD
athide Jaona was awarded the M William Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £1,000, is awarded annually to the student producing the best project on
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the MSc in Nuclear Engineering course. obbie Lyons was awarded the William R Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £500, is awarded annually to the student producing the second best project on the MSc in Nuclear Engineering course. iane Chircop was awarded the William D Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £1,000, is awarded annually to the student producing the best project on the MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering course. atrick Steiger was awarded the William P Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £500, is awarded annually to the student producing the second best project on the MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering course. laudio Ferraro was awarded C the Materials Image Prize at the Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day 2014. Second place went to Zoltan Hiezl. eleste van den Bosch was awarded a C Royal Society of Chemistry Researcher Mobility Fellowship, valued at £3,000, to visit an institution in Spain.
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Tiantian Zhang received a Santander Mobility Award, valued at £1,000. These are awarded to support students who are deemed academically excellent and who are studying or undertaking research at Imperial 2014–15.
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oline Jumeaux won the Graduate C Training Assistant (GTA) of the Year Award which was presented by Professor Alice Gast, President of Imperial College London, in September 2014. The award demonstrates that the Faculty of Engineering recognises the integral role GTAs perform in teaching within the Faculty, offers an incentive to GTAs to strive for excellence in their teaching, provides GTAs with recognition for inclusion in their CVs and encourages GTAs to talk and think more about their approach to teaching. J oseph Steele won Best Poster Prize for his poster entitled: Zonally-distinct tissue regeneration within anisotropic articular cartilage scaffolds at the Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology Network Meeting in April 2014. J oseph Steele was part of one of two finalist teams of entrepreneurial researchers selected to compete in Biotechnology YES 2013. Biotechnology YES is a business plan competition for hypothetical
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biotechnology and environmental start-up companies. achael Harrison won a prize for Best R Oral Presentation for her talk entitled: Engineering gliding surfaces: focusing on the human hand at the FIRM Conference in September 2014. oline Jumeaux was awarded an IC C Trust Grant to attend the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) conference in September 2014. manda You was awarded an A Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust travel grant to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Biomineralization in August 2014. manda You was awarded an Imperial A College Trust travel grant to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Biomineralization in August 2014. atherine Hansel was awarded the C Mark Seller Certificate of Excellence for outstanding performance on the MRes in Chemical Biology of Health and Disease. arriet Gliddon was awarded a Poster H Award for her poster entitled: TB or not
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Celeste van den Bosch was awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Researcher Mobility Fellowship, valued at £3,000, to visit an institution in Spain.
arriet Gliddon was awarded Best H Essay Award for her essay entitled: TB Diagnosis: A Work in Progress at the MRC DTP Colloquium at Imperial College London in September 2014. ound artist Felicity Ford was S commissioned to create a soundscape for a six month exhibition in the Turbine Hall by sculptor Richard Tuttle called I Don’t Know – The Weave of Textile Language. Felicity recorded the sounds of rayon viscose being synthesised in a laboratory in the Department of Materials (with the assistance of Dr Suze Kundu) which can be heard on the Sonic Trails. Click here to listen to the soundscape.
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TB: A diagnostic test for tuberculosis using nanoparticle detection of a whole blood multigene expression signature at the MRC DTP Colloquium at Imperial College London in September 2014.
Mitch Cuddihy and Dr Saira Naeem (HexMat Programme Manager) led a group of HexMat researchers, together with Rolls-Royce Engineering Fellows David Rugg and Steve Williams, to Penwortham Primary School, Tooting, in November 2013 to run a half-day introduction to ‘How do aeroplanes fly?’ This initiates what is planned to be a long-term relationship with Penwortham to bring applied science events to primary-level pupils.
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Undergraduate students highlights yles Holbrough received an Old M Centralians’ Trust Student Activity Award for 2014–15, valued at £700. These are awarded to undergraduates who are playing an active role in Society, Sport or Union affairs. nric Juan Alcocer received an Old E Centralians’ Trust Student Activity Award for 2014–15, valued at £700. These are awarded to undergraduates who are playing an active role in Society, Sport or Union affairs. alerie Osband received an Armourers V and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued at £100. These are awarded to students in the Department of Materials for the best third year design study. awel Palczynski received an P Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued at £100. These are awarded to students in the Department of Materials for the best third year design study. ayley Turner received an Armourers H and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued at £100. These are awarded to students in the Department of Materials for the best third year design study. disorn Techanitisawad received an A Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued at £100. These are awarded to students in the Department 34
of Materials for the best third year design study. L uca Iuzzolino was awarded the Bessemer Medal. This prize is awarded to a final year undergraduate student for the Associateship of the Royal School of Mines for excellence in Metallurgy and Materials. alome Chabran was awarded the S Charles Salter Prize, valued at £75. This prize is award for excellence in Metallurgy to a student completing his/ her finals in this subject. aryl Liang was awarded an Ernest D Edward Glorney Scholarship, valued at £500. These scholarships are awarded for excellence and to an undergraduate student completing the final year examinations in Materials. The Scholarship may be used (a) to study for another year at the College; (b) to obtain practical training after leaving. L ars Blumenthal was awarded an Ernest Edward Glorney Scholarship, valued at £500. These scholarships are awarded for excellence and to an undergraduate student completing the final year examinations in Materials. The Scholarship may be used (a) to study for another year at the College; (b) to obtain practical training after leaving.
amuel Loke was awarded the S Governors’ BEng Prize in Materials, valued at £100. This prize is awarded to an outstanding student in the final undergraduate year of the BEng course. arpal Khing was awarded the H Governors’ MEng Prize in Materials, valued at £100. This prize is awarded to an outstanding student in the final undergraduate year of the MEng course. annah Puccetti was awarded the H Institute of Materials Prize, valued at £200. This prize is awarded to a final year student of the Department of Materials for performance during the whole of his/her undergraduate course. In addition to examination results, particular attention is given to character, personality and to participation in general College or university activities. lexandru Crisan was awarded the A Materials Student Centenary Prize, valued at £200. This prize is awarded to the fourth year undergraduate student who is judged to have completed the best MEng placement project. rian Sum was awarded the Morgan B Advanced Ceramics Undergraduate Prize, valued at £500. This prize is
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Alexandru Crisan was awarded the Materials Student Centenary Prize, valued at £200. This prize is awarded to the fourth year undergraduate student who is judged to have completed the best MEng placement project.
race Fong was awarded the Peter G Pratt Memorial Prize, valued at £100. This prize is awarded to the undergraduate student from the Department of Materials who produces the best final year project. ulin Gao was awarded a Rolls-Royce / Y Armourers and Brasiers’ Company First Year Undergraduate Award, valued at £200. This is awarded to the top two performing first year undergraduate students. illa Puolamaa was awarded a RollsM Royce / Armourers and Brasiers’ First Year Undergraduate Award, valued at £200. This is awarded to the top two performing first year undergraduate students. imon Steinvall was awarded the S Ronald Jock McGregor Prize, valued at £150. This prize is awarded to an undergraduate student from the Department of Materials who produces the best second year case study.
is awarded to the second year undergraduate student achieving the highest overall mark in the Mathematics and Computing Course (MSE.201). I rina Rasid was awarded a Tin Plate Workers’ Prize, valued at £250. This prize is given to the two third year MEng students who achieve the highest overall score. ouning Zhou was awarded a Tin Y Plate Workers’ Prize, valued at £250. This prize is given to the two third year MEng students who achieve the highest overall score. J ohn Wheatley was awarded a Daiwa Scholarship. He is one of only six new Daiwa Scholars to be awarded following a very competitive selection process. John will be based in Tokyo from September 2014 until March 2016 and will receive intensive language training, have opportunities to network with decision-makers in his field and undertake work placements at organisations relevant to his career goals.
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awarded to the student in the second year who achieves the highest mark for a ceramics extended laboratory project.
The Department was the only one in the Faculty of Engineering to hold an outreach event to celebrate the first ever National Women in Engineering Day. 30 Key Stage 3 students (aged 11 to 14) attended a full day of handson activities, reciprocal learning tasks and presentation skills all based around the contributions that women in Materials Science and engineering have made to our everyday lives. The event was supported by Professor Ann Muggeridge, the Faculty Ambassador for Women, and by visiting lecturer for the Department and supporter of diversity in engineering, Dame Sue Ion OBE FREng.
loisius Purnama was awarded the A Thomas Young Centre Mathematics Prize, valued at £100. This prize
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Undergraduate degree awards We congratulate the following students who succeeded in meeting this challenge and who graduated in the 2013–14 period. We wish them every success in their future careers. Materials Science and Engineering (BEng) Ali Mohamed Alkhawajah Lars Blumenthal Theo Bystrom Hjh Hamizah Dp Haji Mohd Nor Hui Ni Grace Fong Soo Yeon Hong Yeting Jiang Cheng Yen Lao Ka Ki Law Jing Ting Lee Justin Leung Fang Xin Li Kailun Li Shaoyang Liu Samuel Loke Yi Ting Low
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Yue Lu Feixueer Luo Zeye Lv Francesca Mazzone Hemant Morjaria Valerie Osband Leon Pay Oliver Pia Joe Protheroe Hannah Puccetti Yanisa Srirungkitsward Adisorn Tachanitiswad Milan Thakore Haomin Wang Tesheng Wang Zijun Wei Theodore Wou Dan Yang Wu Xiangyu Xie Zihua Yang Daryl Yee Wei Liang Yuen Yiu
Materials with Management (BEng) Jack Ah Teck Kar Kei Chan Sonyan Huang John Lee Yiqiao Liu Materials Science and Engineering (MEng) Shardul Biwalker Karissa Chan Thomas Cosnahan Alexandru Crisan Jack Evans Gavin Green Toller Hao Luca Iuzzolino Faizan Javed Harpal Khing Seo Kim Cong Lu Natasha Lunn Amar Mody
Thomas Moss-McCrory Christopher Ogunlesi Tian Sang William Stocker Haow Bin Tee John Wheatley Nicholas Whiteway Shengda Xu Yuzhou Zheng Aerospace Materials (MEng) Salome Chabran Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (MEng) Fanny Dehaine Paul Jones
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MPhil and PhD awards
Postgraduate taught degree awards HIGHLIGHTS
Postgraduate Masters Courses The Department of Materials runs MSc courses in Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials (with the Department of Bioengineering), Nuclear Engineering and Advanced Materials Science and Engineering. The Department also contributes to the MSc course in Composite Materials run by the Centre for Composite Materials in the Department of Aeronautics.
MSc in Nuclear Engineering Tunde Adigun Emmanuel Andrieu Atyab Calloo Antoine Callow Ke Deng Antoine Dulcoux Conor Galvin Elizabeth Howett Bek Kairoshev Alif Imran Mohd Shuhaimi Kristijonas Plauoinaitis Sebastian Russell-Smith Jamie Sahote Wei Wu Noratiqah Yaakop
MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Gulnaz Bulebayeva Yinghui Cao Wan-Ting Chen Diane Chircop David Conway Jozerd Costan Helene de Maleprade Ezra Feilden-Irving David Soon Kiat Lee Zhenqi Li Wei-Hsin Liao Yvonne Lim Yao Meng Thomas Mullners Yiqi Pan Zonghao Shen Patrick Steiger Bo Sun Christina Topouzeli Yaqian Wang Linjun Wei Tianyun Ye Ana Yong Zebang Zheng
The road to completing a PhD is filled with challenges and pressures as well as exhilaration, immense satisfaction and a sense of achievement at the end. Our postgraduate students are at the frontiers of their subjects. They have made contributions to their scientific fields, pushed and tested the boundaries of knowledge and achieved new levels of learning. We look forward to each of them realising the full impact of their success as they develop their careers into the future.
We congratulate the students listed below on completing their MPhils and PhDs and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours. MPhil awards
MSc in Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials* Zahra Abuali Zhen Li Alfonso Muinelo Herranz Konstantinos Pietris Sujata Ravi Johanna Schmidt Amal Sefrioui Pannita Snidvongs Na Ayudhaya Lucien Talvard Marianne Thaila Alain Vella * offered jointly with the Department of Bioengineering
Gabriel Mecklenburg
Functionalised polymer fibres for orthopaedic interfacial tissue engineering and other biomedical applications Award date: 01 May 2014 Supervisors: Dr Iain Dunlop, Professor Molly Stevens FREng
Kuan-Cheng Yeh
Growth and properties of BiMnO3 thin films Award date: 01 December 2013 Supervisors: Dr Peter Petrov, Dr Martyn McLachlan
PhD awards Zhangwei Chen
Mechanical properties of La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3 fuel cell electrodes Award date: 01 June 2014 Supervisors: Dr Finn Giuliani, Professor Alan Atkinson
Constantin Ciurea
The influence of temperature on the mechanical behaviour of ceramics in Ti1-xAlxN system Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisors: Dr Finn Giuliani, Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
David Clarke
‘Smart’ self-assembled ß-sheet poly (γ-glutamic acid) hybrid hydrogels Award date: 01 June 2014 Supervisors: Professor Natalie Stingelin, Professor Molly Stevens FREng
Kristy Cloyd
Shedding light on living cells and mineralised tissues using Raman spectroscopy Award date: 01 August 2014 Supervisors: Professor Molly Stevens FREng, Dr Adrian Chester
Louise Connell
Natural and synthetic polymer-based hybrid materials for tissue regeneration Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisor: Professor Julian Jones
Derfogail Delcassian
Biomimetic substrates for immune cell activation Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisors: Professor Molly Stevens FREng, Dr Iain Dunlop
Christabel Evans
Micromechanisms and micromechanics of Zircaloy-4 Award date: 01 July 2014 Supervisor: Dr David Dye
Lydia Fawcett
Electrochemical performance and compatibility of La2NiO4+δ electrode material with La0.8Sr0.2Ga0.8Mg0.2O3 electrolyte for solid oxide electrolysis Award date: 01 May 2014 Supervisors: Professor Stephen Skinner, Professor John Kilner
Benjamin Foss
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commercial polycrystalline Ni-based superalloy under static and loading conditions Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisors: Dr Barbara Shollock, Dr David McPhail
Thorsten Stechert
Daniel Glymond
Hassan Tahini
Fracture toughness and creep of mullite and mullite based composites Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisors: Dr Luc Vandeperre, Dr Finn Giuliani
JineSung Jung
Investigation of the effect of lanthanum on the oxidation of CMSX-4 Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisors: Dr Barbara Shollock, Dr David McPhail
Kristina Kareh
In-situ synchrotron tomography of granular deformation in semi-solid Al-Cu alloys Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisors: Dr Christopher Gourlay, Professor Peter Lee
Soo-Na Lee
Chromium poisoning of cathodes in the SOFC Award date: 01 April 2014 Supervisors: Professor John Kilner, Professor Alan Atkinson
Emanuela Liberti
Transmission electron microscopy of titanium dioxide nanoplatelets and nanorods Award date: 01 October 2013 Supervisors: Professor David McComb , Professor Milo Shaffer
Simon Lumley
Atomistic simulation of hydrogen and hydrides in zirconium and zirconium alloys Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisors: Dr Mark Wenman, Professor Robin Grimes FREng
Chedtha Puncreobutr
In-situ synchrotron characterisation of Fe-rich intermetallic formation during the solidification of Al-Si-Cu-Fe alloys Award date: 01 January 2014 Supervisors: Dr Andrew Horsfield, Professor Peter Lee
Khandaker Rahman
Mechanical behaviour of twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steels Award date: 01 October 2013 Supervisor: Dr David Dye
Michele Serri
Magnetic and structural properties of molecular films, blends and nanostructures based on cobalt phthalocyanines Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisor: Dr Sandrine Heutz
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Glasses for energy applications: Atomic scale network structure and properties Award date: 01 December 2013 Supervisor: Professor Robin Grimes FREng Controlling dopant distributions and structures in advanced semiconductors Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisors: Professor Robin Grimes FREng, Dr Alexander Chroneos, Udo Schwingenschloegl
Hok Man Tang
Porous melt-derived bioactive glass scaffolds for bone regeneration via gel-cast foaming Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisors: Professor Julian Jones, Professor Peter Lee
Samuel Taub
Transition metal oxide doping of ceria-based solid solutions Award date: 01 December 2013 Supervisors: Professor Alan Atkinson, Professor John Kilner
Pinyuan Tian
Engineered biomolecules with improved functionalities for bone tissue engineering Award date: 01 February 2014 Supervisor: Professor Molly Stevens FREng
Daming Wang
Sol-gel silica-based tissue scaffolds: freeze casting and SIMS analysis strategies Award date: 01 January 2014 Supervisors: Dr David McPhail, Professor Julian Jones
Tian-le Wang
Fabrication of ferroelectrics based MEMS structures for electronically switchable bulk acoustic wave resonators Award date: 01 June 2014 Supervisors: Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng, Dr Peter Petrov
electrochemical performance and in situ characterisation Award date: 01 October 2013 Supervisors: Professor Stephen Skinner, Professor John Kilner
Kuan-Ting Wu
Layered Ruddlesden-Popper Lan+1NinO3n+1 (n = 1, 2 and 3) epitaxial films grown by pulsed laser deposition for potential fuel cell applications Award date: 01 July 2014 Supervisors: Professor Stephen Skinner, Professor John Kilner
Hui Yu Yan
Co-Al-W based alloys for turbine disc applications Award date: 01 March 2014 Supervisor: Dr David Dye
Gladys Teo Yanru
Synthesis of multi-segmented TiO2 /Pt nanorods for photocatalytic hydrogen production Award date: 01 September 14 Supervisors: Professor Mary Ryan, Professor Jason Riley
Kai Wang
Chemical vapor deposition of largearea high-quality graphene films for electronic applications Award date: 01 July 2014 Supervisors: Professor Norbert Klein, Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Jonnathan Warwick
Texture, microstructure and deformation mechanisms in titanium alloys Award date: 01 August 2014 Supervisors: Professor Richard Dashwood, Dr David Dye
Russell Woolley
Ruddlesden-Popper phases as solid oxide fuel cell cathodes:
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Left: Dr Suze Kundu hosting the Material Girl session in the Research Zone at Imperial Festival 2014.
Imperial College London has long been at the forefront of excellent Outreach and Public Engagement. The aim is not only to recruit future Imperial students, but also to inspire people of all ages with science, and allow them to connect the scientific research that we do here to everyday life. As the UK Chief Scientist, Sir Mark Walport famously said, ‘science is not finished until it is communicated’.
Outreach and Public Engagement Research Council grants increasingly insist that a proportion of time is spent communicating research with the public. In May 2014 the Government launched the Your Life initiative which works towards a more diverse and genderbalanced scientific workforce, to which Imperial has made pledges. These include commitments to extending Outreach into primary schools, and holding an international conference on the teaching of science, all of which encourage the Department to do more Outreach and Public Engagement. The Department has continued with some ongoing annual schools outreach activities, such as its participation in the Headstart programme in July, which allows Year 12 and Year 13 students the opportunity to spend a week at Imperial attending lectures and taking part in labs across a range of subjects. This year, 60 students took part in the Materials Challenges offered by the Department. www.imperial.ac.uk/materials
The evaluation report supplied by Imperial Outreach shows that Materials ranked highly in enjoyment, and students found the session useful. Direct feedback from students following their session in the Department confirmed that they enjoyed the complexity of the challenge offered to them, and carrying out genuine undergraduate level materials testing. The Department has continued to work with St Paul’s School, London through our links with one of their science teachers, a former member of staff here. Through this programme, A-level students work with our undergraduate and PhD students to deliver outreach activities to younger students in their own school and neighbouring schools. It is hoped that the scheme will continue throughout the next academic year, with our students getting more involved with delivering activities. Students from St Paul’s also visited the Department and attended lectures given by a range of academics.
This year was the first year that we worked alongside other Departments on an Imperial-run Summer School. We provided a hands-on materials lab session for 20 Year 10 students on the Insights into Science and Engineering Summer School in July. The students said that they enjoyed their sessions on interesting materials, and even proposed inventing some superhydrophobic safety glasses, as the hot summer day made their protective eyewear steam up, perfectly demonstrating their new found application-driven Materials Science and engineering skills. We were also asked by Imperial Outreach to give a lecture on Materials Science and Life as a Scientist to the Future Scholars students visiting Imperial, and a skills-based session on science and engineering communication and presentation skills to 96 Year 12 students. The Department was also the only one in the Faculty of Engineering to hold an Department of Materials Annual Report 2013–14
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outreach event to celebrate the first ever National Women in Engineering Day. 30 Key Stage 3 students (aged 11 to 14) attended a full day of hands-on activities, reciprocal learning tasks and presentation skills all based around the contributions that women in Materials Science and Engineering have made to our everyday lives. The event was supported by Professor Ann Muggeridge, the Faculty Ambassador for Women, and by visiting lecturer for the Department and supporter of diversity in engineering, Dame Sue Ion. In April, 800 Year 12 science students attended a lecture entitled Material Girl at the Institute of Education with The Training Partnership. Following the success of this, the Department has been asked to give two more lectures in the coming months to the samesized audience, extending the reach of Materials Science and Engineering to science students who are about to decide what to study at university and which university to study at. Members of the Department have also been regularly visiting their old schools and the schools of their children, attending careers conventions, giving Materials Science and
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careers talks and mentoring students. Dr Sandrine Heutz ran a longer-term project funded by the Royal Society that allowed students from all ages across her children’s primary school to get involved in making some dye sensitised solar cells. The Department has been involved in a great deal of public engagement over the past year. Representatives from CASC and the Centre for Nuclear Engineering were present in the Research Zone at the Imperial Festival in May, while there were also family-friendly Material Girl demo lectures held in the Workshop Tent. Materials have also had a presence at many of the monthly Imperial Fringe events, demonstrating everything from the wonders of glass to the complex business of materials and mixology. A band formed by some of our PhD students even played in the Music Tent of the festival, powered by a fuel cell. In November, Professor Peter Haynes gave his inaugural lecture on Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Real Materials. In April, Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng gave a lecture on Graphene to the Friends of Imperial. In May 2014, the Imperial strand of the Pint of Science Festival was
held in four pubs across London, with Materials staff and students speaking at two of the four strands; Understanding our Bodies (Designing Materials to Heal) and Chemistry and Physics (Materials Discovery, and High Tech Glass). Many of our academics have also given invited and public lectures across the world, from Professor Bill Lee’s Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering lecture in February to Professor Molly Stevens’ lecture at the MRS Spring Meet in San Francisco in May. Many members of the Department have been asked to feature in media coverage of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng was involved in the science media frenzy that followed the release of the new screen on the latest Apple iPhone. Dr Suze Kundu and Dr T Ben Britton have both featured in science slots on Radio Cardiff, and Dr Paul Tangney discussed plasticity on Resonance FM. Professor Bill Lee FREng featured on Science in Action on the BBC World Service discussing the fallout from Fukushima, and Dr Suze Kundu continues to be a regular Materials Science presenter on series two of the
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The Department will continue to work closely with the Media and Communications Teams at Imperial, to ensure that we are available to comment on and cover breaking news stories and share research breakthroughs and academic awards.
Discovery Channel show ‘You Have Been Warned’ and the Science Channel show ‘Outrageous Acts of Science’. While public engagement is important, it is also worthwhile engaging with government, policy makers and learned societies. Dr Suze Kundu has continued to represent the Department at events as diverse as the Government launch of the Your Life Initiative at the Science Museum, the reception for the same initiative with Liz Truss at Imperial College London, the Institute of Physics’ diversity event ‘Closing Doors’, the L’Oreal Women in Science Awards at the Royal Society, the National Women in Engineering Event at the IoM3, Parliamentary Links Day and the Royal Society’s Vision for Science and Mathematics Education. Going forward, the Department plans to increase the number of school visits, with the aim of reaching students of all ages, including more primary school students. Activities offered will highlight ties with the National Curriculum at all Key Stages, and will be dynamic enough to take into account any changes in the National Curriculum. We will also try to increase the number of students that
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visit the Department through Imperial’s Summer School programmes. Due to some changes in how Outreach is carried out by Imperial, from September, Departments will have the opportunity to become more involved in the Imperialwide Outreach programme and book the Reach Out Lab, a purpose-built, wellequipped lab, for their own events during the year. Information is being gathered from academics to see how their work can be presented to a range of ages and incorporated into future activities. Academics from the Department have also been getting involved with the series of primary Outreach videos being produced for Imperial College London by TwigWorld. So far we have been involved in films about Materials Science and conservation based on the Mary Rose, and artificial photosynthesis filmed in the UK’s largest solar farm. The Graduate School offers training for PhD students to become Outreach Postgraduate Ambassadors. PhD students are being made aware of the training course associated with this, which will give them some formal training in how to communicate science effectively, and
can also count towards their personal development. In addition, students from Materials will be able to access the bank of activities available through Imperial Outreach and give talks and carry out workshops, and Outreach will, in turn, be able to offer more Materials activities to schools that may not yet be aware of how much of the curriculum this can cover. The Department will continue to work closely with the Media and Communications Teams at Imperial, to ensure that we are available to comment on and cover breaking news stories and share research breakthroughs and academic awards. An Outreach plan is now in place which will ensure that the Department is represented at all the big annual science festivals and events, Imperial events and Parliamentary events, in order to continue to be a visible presence in the science communication world.
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UNDERGRADUATE We have earned a reputation for excellence in undergraduate teaching. In the most recent HEFCE national teaching quality assessment, we were the only Materials department in the whole country to be awarded the maximum score across every assessment.
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The theme driving continuing improvements to the already excellent teaching programme in the Department of Materials is student experience. Better use of information technology is enabling more flexible submission of course work, more rapid return of results to students and higher quality feedback.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS The labs now have the benefit of two members of staff (superdemonstrators) who are always present: they know both the students and the experiments well, and address student problems quickly and with the minimum of complexity. A new agreement has been reached with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to allow an exchange of students each year both for summer placements, and for a term of study at the start of the fourth year; what started as a Department of Materials project has rapidly gained the attention of the rest of Imperial. The Department continues to optimise its teaching environment, which has included the purchase of new equipment for the undergraduate labs. A notable new arrival is a set of high quality optical microscopes, as popular with research groups as with the undergraduates. The undergraduate programme is led www.imperial.ac.uk/materials
by the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS) with the assistance of the Senior Tutor, Teaching Committee and Student Office. Because of the importance we put on teaching through laboratory work, a new role of Laboratory Coordinator has been introduced to ensure it receives the attention it requires from an academic. The Senior Tutor is responsible for monitoring student progression and welfare, while the Teaching Committee oversees developments in course structure, admissions policy and educational strategy, and the Student Office manages all aspects of course delivery and student applications. Undergraduate courses
The Department offers a number of Honours degree programmes:
-year BEng in Materials Science and 3 Engineering and BEng Materials with Management; 4-year MEng courses in Materials Science and Engineering, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Nuclear Materials and Aerospace Materials. For more information, please visit: www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/courses. The first two years are the same for all programmes so that everyone has a rigorous background in the essential ideas that underpin the whole of Materials Science and Engineering, which includes business and communication skills. The students can change programmes at any stage until the end of their second year. Teaching occurs through lectures, feedback sessions, computing classes, tutorials and laboratory work. Students in the first two years are Department of Materials Annual Report 2013–14
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The Department continues to support its students via numerous scholarships and bursaries. These are made available largely due to the generosity of various companies and charities
scheduled approximately 21 hours of contact per week and expected to spend considerable additional time reading, preparing for tutorials/workshops and writing laboratory reports: activities they are encouraged to do in groups where appropriate. One of the favourite second year exercises is the group case study, where each group is assigned an artefact (i.e. a kettle, toaster, golf club, etc.) and is expected to dismantle it, assess the design and function of each individual component, and then conduct tests to identify the material and production method used. In the third and fourth years, students are expected to take greater control of their studies. The only core lecture course in year three is concerned with materials characterisation and is supported by a series of laboratory sessions at which the students have an opportunity to use the excellent characterisation instruments available in the Department. The third year students are also offered a range of eight electives from the Department, spanning the research interests of the academic staff, plus a number of additional electives in Business or Humanities, from which they must choose five in which to be assessed. They are also expected to complete an individual
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Literature Survey, a good opportunity both to refine their writing skills and to get to grips with the scientific literature, and a Group Design Study. In the latter exercise, the team of students independently plans how to address a design brief, including how to acquire the knowledge needed to carry out the design, how to organise the work as a team effort and how progress will be monitored. In addition to technical content, the final report is expected to contain a business plan for commercialisation of the design which must manage the Intellectual Property rights and ensure Quality Assurance is taken care of. In June of the third year, the BEng students, with the exception of those on the Year Abroad programme, graduate, whilst those on the MEng programme go off to spend their summer on placement. Details of placements conducted in the summer of 2014 are listed on the right. In parallel, they attend lectures and are assessed on four electives from the Department or from a wide selection of courses offered throughout the Faculty of Engineering.
Sources of support for undergraduates
The Department continues to support its students via numerous scholarships and bursaries. These are made available largely due to the generosity of various companies and charities including the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, AWE, Rolls-Royce plc, TATA to name a few and due to the kind donations made to the Harvey Flower Undergraduate Research Scholarship fund, set up in 2007 in honour of the late Professor Harvey Flower. These funds mainly enable our undergraduates to spend time abroad at high quality research institutions. In addition, the Department now offers five scholarships to any of our MEng courses applicants from 2014–15. The following undergraduate students received financial support in 2013–14 to assist with summer placement expenses. Recipients of summer placement funds Student
Amount
Laura Wheatcroft
£765
Matthew Howard
£765
Mun Lai
£1,500
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UNDERGRADUATE PLACEMENTS AND PROJECTS Industrial experience and work placements Amirah Aziz
Glass hazing investigation Location: Museum of London
Sophie Andrew
Nano-coatings for electrical devices (R&D Dept.) Location: P2i
Thomas Bennett
Post synthetic modification of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) Location: Ecole Nationale Súperieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)
Pia-Theresa Budde
Industry work Location: NSG Environmental Ltd
Hannah Hill
Industry work Location: Repsol, Ecuador
Matthew Howard
Fabrication and characterisation of metallic nanofoams Location: Purdue University, USA
Leanne Johnston
Synthesis and characterisation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) Location: Ecole Nationale Súperieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)
Alastair Jones
Materials and process placement Location: Dowty Propellers
Deana Tsang
Microfluidic circulatory tumour cell sorting and separating Location: Imperial College London
Karen Lai
Global technology: architecture and core engineering Location: Deutsche Bank
Alex Lai
Diffusion of particles through carious enamel Location: King’s College London Dental Institute
Christopher Lawrence
Nuclear materials, chemistry and corrosion (MCC) Location: Rolls-Royce plc
Marc Lelong
Research & innovation, supercapacitor division Location: Blue Solutions
Justin Lim
Research into bioceramics, bioglasses and biopolymers Location: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
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Stanley Liu
Studying the effect on stem cell development of changing the mechanical properties of hydrogel scaffolds Location: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
Irina Rasid
Design a self-healing polymer Location: MIT, USA
Carole Ng
Surface crack measurement project Location: MRX Technologies On return from their placements, the students join one of the Department’s research groups to carry out an individual project conducted over both the autumn and spring terms, details of research projects completed in 2013–14 are listed below.
Final year undergraduate projects Shardul Biwalkar
Fatigue indicator parameters and micromechanics of nucleation Supervisor: Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Lars Blumenthal (BEng student)
Monte Carlo simulations of gamma/ gamma’ interfaces of NiAl superalloys Supervisor: Professor Mike Finnis
Alexis Burr (Erasmus student)
Hui Fong (BEng student)
Development of light manipulating nano-structures Supervisor: Dr Peter Petrov
David Green
Investigating molecular films for graphene electronics Supervisor: Dr Sandrine Heutz
Toller Hao
The mechanical properties of silicon carbide-aluminium spinodal alloys Supervisor: Dr Luc Vandeperre
Luca Iuzzolino
Graphene analogues: single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides for large-area electronics Supervisor: Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Faizan Javed
Effect of electropulsing on the microstructure evolution of steels Supervisor: Professor Norbert Klein
Paul Jones
Scaffolds for respiratory diagnosis Supervisor: Professor Julian Jones
Harpal Khing
Percolation thresholds in non-random alloys Supervisor: Dr Michelle Moram
Seo Kim
Turbine blade defect removal using laser ablation Supervisor: Dr Barbara Shollock
Fanny Dehaine
Biomaterials thin films by sol-gel processing Supervisor: Dr Iain Dunlop
Jack Evans
Controlling the SiC content in B4C for high-performance armour Supervisor: Dr Finn Giuliani
Tian Sang
Effect of electropulsing on the microstructure evolution of steels Supervisor: Dr Rongshan Qin
Will Stocker
Growth and characterisation of oxide and oxynitride thin films for UV applications Supervisor: Dr Michelle Moram
Haow Tee
Synthesis and characterisation of Sr1-x NbO3 Supervisor: Dr David Payne
Regis Voillat (Erasmus student)
ZTS – A new sensitizer for Q-dot solar cells Supervisor: Professor Jason Riley
Tiesheng Wang (BEng student)
Cong Lu
John Wheatley
Natasha Lunn
Alexandru Crisan
Processing of cubic HfO2 as a refractory oxide Supervisor: Professor Bill Lee FREng
Applying Nanostructured ZnO as a Broadband Fluorescence Enhancement Material Supervisor: Dr Fang Xie
Salome Chabran
An evaluation of the effect of surface charges due to cleaning on the visual aesthetics of plastic art and design objects in heritage collections Supervisor: Dr David McPhail
Factors affecting competition between Sn-Ni3Sn4 and Sn-NiSn4 eutectics Supervisor: Dr Christopher Gourlay
Microfabrication of nanoscale functional oxide film devices Supervisor: Dr Peter Petrov
Surface scale defect on Ni-base superalloys Supervisor: Dr Barbara Shollock
Thomas Cosnahan
Leon Pay (BEng student)
Romain Portal (Erasmus student)
Graphene analogues: single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides for energy applications Supervisor: Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Micromechanics of superplasticity: grain boundary sliding and secondphase effects Supervisor: Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
composites for the skin of SKYLON Supervisor: Dr Luc Vandeperre
Oxidation and tribology Supervisor: Dr Barbra Shollock
Growing graphene on a computer Supervisor: Dr Andrew Horsfield
Nicholas Whiteway
Fabrication of graphene free-standing structures towards NEMS sensor applications Supervisor: Professor Norbert Klein
Theodore Wou (BEng student)
Ariella Machness (Erasmus student)
Phase morphology optimization for increased organic photovoltaic device efficiency Supervisor: Professor Natalie Stingelin
Corrosion of nuclear waste glasses Supervisor: Professor Robin Grimes FREng
Shengda Xu
Sintering of SiC at very low temperatures Supervisor: Dr Luc Vandeperre
Theory and simulation of metastable intermetallic in electronic interconnections Supervisor: Dr Andrew Horsfield
Thomas Moss-McCrory
Karissa Yan
Characterisation of the effect of surface condition on stress corrosion cracking in Ni alloys for use in nuclear reactors Supervisor: Dr Mark Wenman
Conservation of wall paintings, their protective coatings and adhesion to the wall substrate at Hampton Court Palace Supervisor: Dr David McPhail
Yannick Naunheim (Erasmus student)
Darryl Liang (BEng student)
Amar Mody
Simulation of crystal plasticity using spectral method Supervisor: Dr T Ben Britton
Christopher Ogunlesi
SiC fibre reinforced BMAS glass ceramic
High strength TWIP steels Supervisor: Dr David Dye
Yuzhou Zheng
Towards printing of organic semiconductor gels Supervisor: Professor Natalie Stingelin
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Typically, there are over 150 postgraduate research students in the Department of Materials studying for higher degrees. We give each of these students a very high quality research training experience on a topic of societal importance that is relevant to the needs of end users. POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH We are keenly focused on ensuring that our students have all the technical and transferable skills that end users are looking for. As a result, our graduating research students are eminently employable and are in great demand in a variety of sectors including the academic sector, industry and commerce. In recent years, well over 90% of students have completed their theses within four years, and the great majority publish at least some of their work in leading peer review journals in their disciplines. The research projects on offer allow them to study the relationship between microstructure, processing and properties of key materials. Thus they can improve the chemical, physical and engineering processes by which materials may be produced. These objectives are supported by world-class facilities in the areas of surface analysis and surface science (SIMS, LEIS and XPS), transmission and scanning electron microscopy, mechanical testing, electrical characterisation and X-ray diffraction. The broad range of postgraduate projects available is based around six core themes depending on the type of materials being studied: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering,
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Ceramics and Glasses, Engineering Alloys, Functional Materials, Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Characterisation, Theory and Simulation of Materials. Postgraduate masters
many aspects of both the science of materials and engineering applications. It will include coursework, projects, exams and original research. www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/courses/ msccourses/mscmaterials
courses MSc in Biomedical Engineering
The Department of Materials runs MSc courses in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Biomaterials (with the Department of Bioengineering) and Nuclear Engineering. The Department also contributes to the MSc course in Composite Materials run by the Centre for Composite Materials in the Department of Aeronautics. MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
The MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering is a course offered by the Department of Materials to be completed over one year of full time study. This MSc is a stand-alone qualification designed to prepare students to solve problems in Materials Science and Engineering under the exacting conditions we encounter today. The programme is broad, covering
with Biomaterials
The Biomaterials stream focuses on the design and synthesis of new materials that will be used as implants or prostheses. Key to implant development is the understanding of how the material design affects biological response. An example is total joint replacement: understanding materials selection and properties and the advantages and disadvantages of their use and long term effects. Another example is the design of temporary templates (scaffolds) that can act as guides for tissue repair and can signal stem cells depending on their surface chemistry and topography. Depending on their design, materials can be degradable, can stimulate tissue growth at the cellular level and can release drugs at controlled rates. The design of the Department of Materials Annual Report 2013–14
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EU Student Breakdown
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Overseas Student Breakdown
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10
12
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2 2
Overseas
Italy
China
Singapore
Female
EU
Poland
India
Qatar
Male
Home
Germany
Canada
Malaysia
Bulgaria
Taiwan
Iran
Belgium
Switzerland
material is very specific to the tissue that is being repaired or the drug being delivered. Techniques for imaging the cellmaterial interactions are also important. www.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering/ courses/msc MSc in Nuclear Engineering
The MSc in Nuclear Engineering is a course being offered by the Department of Materials to be completed over one year of full time study that commenced in October 2010. The course is aimed at a new generation of engineers with the intention of ensuring they are equipped with specific nuclear training to satisfy the demands of the nuclear industry. The course covers all major aspects of the nuclear industry from the design and build of nuclear power stations and their operations through to decommissioning and final disposal. The course is a multidisciplinary subject and the core courses are taught by research leaders from the Departments of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Earth Science and Engineering with expertise unique to the UK from our Reactor Centre staff at the Silwood Park campus who operate the CONSORT test reactor. www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/courses/ msccourses/mscnuclear
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The Department is involved in many of the Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) at Imperial College London. Of the twelve CDTs awarded to Imperial, the Department leads the following three: Nuclear Energy, Theory and Simulation of Materials and Advanced Characterisation of Materials. Each of these has a strong component of industry funding, and is collaborative with colleagues in other departments and universities, providing inter- and multidisciplinary depth. ICO Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy
The Imperial, Cambridge and Open University (ICO) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Nuclear Energy will enable future reactors to be developed, new reactors to be built and operated more safely and current reactors to operate for longer. At the same time, ICO research will support the clean up and decommissioning of the UK’s contaminated nuclear sites and moves towards Geological Disposal in the UK and worldwide. ICO research aims to place the UK at the forefront of international programmes on future reactors for electricity and civil marine power. By doing so, it will provide highly skilled and trained cohorts of PhDs with a global
vision and international outlook for the UK nuclear industry, regulators, government and academia. The CDT will train 62 PhD students in five cohorts and is sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the nuclear industry and international partners. The programme involves a one year MSc in Nuclear Engineering at Imperial followed by three years PhD study at either Imperial, the University of Cambridge or the Open University. Students can select a PhD from the many projects covering the whole fuel cycle listed on the CDT website. The majority of projects are joint ventures with industry. Our industrial partners include among others: Rolls-Royce plc, the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), EDF Energy, Hitachi, the University of NSW, Westinghouse, and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL). www.imperial.ac.uk/nuclearcdt Centre for Doctoral Training In Theory and Simulation of Materials
The CDT in Theory and Simulation of Materials (TSM) aims to train a new generation of scientists who have a passion for cutting-edge research and are inspired to use their talent for theory and mathematics to tackle the scientific and technological challenges of today and the future. The central theme is bridging
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We are keenly focused on ensuring that our students have all the technical and transferable skills that end users are looking for. As a result, our graduating research students are eminently employable and are in great demand in a variety of sectors.
Postgraduate research students length and time scales which poses some of the most challenging problems in theory and simulation. Students receive a comprehensive foundation in theoretical materials physics together with techniques for simulating materials across the wide range of length and time scales met in academic and industrial research: from electronic structure, through the nanoscale and microstructural level to the continuum. Each student undertakes a research project with at least two supervisors with complementary expertise at adjacent length scales, normally from different departments. A key emphasis of research projects will be the development and implementation of new theory and simulation tools. Students in the TSMCDT are empowered with the freedom to choose their research project from a list proposed by academic staff of the CDT or to design their own project in consultation with academic staff. www.imperial.ac.uk/ theoryandsimulationofmaterials
analytical techniques available for the study of materials. By the end of the training program the students have a broad range of expertise in state-of-theart analytical techniques and can select the correct techniques to use in the correct hierarchical order to determine the properties of interest in a particular system. The students also have an in-depth expertise of a few techniques which they specialise in during their research project, whilst studying a material system of societal importance drawn from one of our key thematic areas. Each project is designed to exploit the synergistic strengths of the partners at Imperial College London and University College London and this very rich training experience is reinforced by a three-month (minimum) placement in a company or an overseas university research group. The knowledge and expertise gained on this course, combined with the transferable skill training, makes our graduates highly attractive to employers. www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/cdtacm
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38 new research students joined us in the 2013–14 session compared with 59 in the 2012–13 session, 36 in the 2011–12 session and 18 in 2010–11 session. The number of applications received in the 2013–14 session was 177 compared with 149 in the 2012–13 session, 159 in the 2011–12 session and 162 in the 2010–11 session. The following table summarises the information for the past three years: Session
Postgraduate research students* (MPhil/PhD)
2013–14
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2012–13
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2011–12
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Sources of support for postgraduate research students
The Department continues to support its students via numerous scholarships including five departmental Materials Research Scholarships (£6,000 per year) and five fully-funded studentships under the Imperial Doctoral Training Partnership scheme. Travel support is also available from the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers in collaboration with AWE, Rolls-Royce plc and TATA to assist our PhD students with travel
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Claudio Ferraro: Best design and layout and materials image prize winner
Joseph Steele: Best scientific content of a lecture prize
Karla-Luise Herpoldt: Best Public Speaker prize
Jorge Costa: Best scientific content of a poster prize
Dendritic features (Ba, Al and O) surrounded by UO2 grains: Materials Image Prize runner up image
Silicon Carbide lollipop by Claudio Ferraro: Materials Image Prize winning image, Postgraduate Research Day 2014
Postgraduate Research Day costs to conferences and/or industrial placements. The following postgraduate students received financial support in 2013–14: Student
Scholarship
Shweta Agarwal Shi-Ting Wang Zebang Zheng
Materials Research Scholarship (MRS)
Robert Bain Theresa Davey James Quirk Celeste van den Bosch Clare Watts
EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) studentship
Amy Nommeots-Nomm Evgeniy Donchev Cassandra Harris Celeste van den Bosch Celia Pacheco George Harrington Jodie Melbourne Juliana Lee Karla-Luise Herpoldt Bey Leo Robert Harrison Samuel Cooper Sonia Hallen Victor Wan Tiantian Zhang
Armourers and Brasiers’ Travel Award each student received £250
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The twenty fourth Postgraduate Research Day took place on Monday 24 March 2014. This annual event takes the form of a oneday scientific meeting with a programme of oral presentations interspersed with poster sessions. As part of their postgraduate research training, all third year postgraduate students are required to give a fifteen-minute oral presentation on their research and second year postgraduates are required to present a poster. All members of the Department and collaborating researchers are invited to attend. The audience consists of industrial sponsors, members of academic, research, technical and administrative staff and postgraduate as well as final year undergraduate students. The aims of the day are: t o train postgraduates in the important transferable skills of oral and poster presentation t o inform postgraduates and other members of the Department of the wide range of research being carried out in the Department to inform final year undergraduates of interesting research possibilities in the Department
t o help create a ‘close-knit postgraduate community’. This year, the presentations covered a wide range of areas including: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Ceramics and Glasses, Engineering Alloys, Functional Materials, Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Characterisation and Theory and Simulation of Materials, reflecting the diverse research being carried out in the Department. The standard of both the presentations and the posters gets better every year; testament to the professionalism of the students and their supervisors as well as to the GSEPS training courses that they attend. The presentations given on the day are listed below. Overall, the standard was that of a professional meeting. At the end of the day, it is a tradition that members of the audience participate in judging panels to award prizes for all aspects of postgraduate performance. The prizegiving ceremony, which brings together all members of the Department, makes a very enjoyable ending to an excellent day. The prizes awarded on the day are given on the right.
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POSTGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY Carina Almeida
Polina Brangel
Design of bespoke synthetic polymers for tailorable silica hybrid properties towards an ideal bone implant
Jodie Melbourne
Giovanni Luongo
Leo Bey
Joseph Steele
Rachael Harrison
Amanda Quadling
Claudio Ferraro
Postgraduate Research Day Presentations Anthony Macon
The effect of particle size and surface chemistry on the toxicity of silver nanoparticles in murine lungs
Omar Cedillos Barraza
Microstructure and mechanical properties of (Ta,Hf)C ultra-high temperature ceramics
Conjugated polymer nanoparticles for bioimaging and biosensing using novel peptide capping agents The impact of the nanoparticle-lipid interface on lung function Zonally-distinct tissue regeneration within articular cartilage scaffolds Aggregate evolution in zirconia refractories
Cassandra Harris
Patrick Burr
Ce1-xSrxNbO4±δ : a new fast ion conductor for SOFC and related applications
Zoltan Hiezl
Postgraduate Research Day
Revised Be-rich side of the Al-Be-Fe phase diagram using DFT Preparation and characterization of UO2-based AGR SIMFuel-continuation
Karla-Luise Herpoldt
Peptide nanosensors for the point-ofcare detection of HIV-1 protease
Eleonora D’Elia
Self-healing organic-inorganic composites
Evgeniy Donchev
Fully experimental approach to characterising the electrical properties of Metal-Insulator-Insulator-Metal diode structures
George Harrington
POSTER PRESENTATIONS Amanda You
Characterisation of human cardiovascular tissue calcification in disease using Raman and nanoanalytical electron microscopy
Amy Nommeots-Nomm
An environmentally friendly solution processing of earth-abundant and nontoxic materials for photovoltaics
Robert Harrison
Processing and thermophysical characterisation of non-oxide candidates for use as Inert Matrix Fuels in Generation IV nuclear power plant
Nasrin Al Nasiri
The effect of microstructure on the slow crack growth of SiC at ambient conditions
Nor Ezzaty Ahmad
Dissolution of simulant UK high level waste glasses
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Jenniffer Alex
Hypoxia mimicking glasses for use as chronic wound dressings
Francesca Tallia
Gil Machado
Justin Chung
Sol-gel derived hybrids made with synthetic polymers for bone tissue engineering
Sarah Greasley
Bioactive glass nanoparticles for incorporation into hybrids for bone regeneration
Paresh Parmar
Development of novel tailorable bioactive matrices for articular cartilage regeneration
Maria Nelson
Silica-gelatin hybrid scaffolds produced by 3D printing directly from Sol
Coline Jumeaux
Stimuli-responsive hybrid gold-silica nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery in cancer therapy
Constant Morez
Rescuing low efficiency in virallytriggered de novo cardiomyocytes generation through biophysical cues
Yongkun Luo
Description of surface energy anisotropy for BCC metals
Jorge Costa
The influence of MoO3 thickness on the emission colour of hybrid LEDs
Samuel Cooper
In operando X-ray microtomography of a solid oxide fuel cell
Kien-Cuong Pham
A graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid for high performance proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC)
Leo Tsui
Containing fire: understanding impurities in refractory cements
ScxGa1-xN film growth and microstructure
Alberto Scaccabarozi
Semiconducting: insulating polymer blends for organic electronics
Caroline Riedel
Tin-based ternary oxide photocatalysts
Celia Pacheco-Moreno
Organic semiconducting: insulating blends for novel bioelectronics applications
Cheng Li
Claire Burgess
Hsiang-Han Teng
Stephen Tay
Bio-inspired ceramic based composites
Anu Solanki
Sintering of calcium phosphates with controlled properties
The Stability of Silver Nanowires (AgNWs) in the Pulmonary Surfactant
Engineering of gliding and adhesive surfaces; focusing on the human hand
Comparison of 3 bioactive glasses manufactured via gel casting
Can strained oxide ion conductors provide a route to low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells?
Ioannis Theodorou
Synthesis of biocompatible Iron oxide magnetic nanowires
Structure and electrochemical studies of modulated LaNb1-xWxO4+δ phases as a new electrolyte for SOFC
Tough bio-inspired Silica/PCL hybrid materials for bone substitution
Fabrication and characterisation of magnetic molecular films based on charge-transfer salts
Quantum dot multiplexing assay for the detection of microRNA and enzymatic activity in clinical samples
Atomic layer deposition of ZnO on solution grown nanorods for transparent conducting applications
Daniel Price
Self-assembled monolayers of polystyrene templates and sputtering deposition to create ordered nanostructures
Matthias Kahk
The electronic structure of IrO2 studied by HAXPES and DFT
Mohd Mahat
A bio-stability study of acid-doped polyaniline thin films using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Richard Simmons
A novel method for modelling UV fluence in LED-based home-scale water treatment
Xuemei Zhang
Photoelectrochemical characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 films made from nanoparticle ink
Yong Kim
Room temperature routes for the growth of molecular oxide films
Yoann Porte
Structural, morphological and electronic properties of Zn doped SnO2 thin films
Wenjun Lu
The improvement of corrosion resistance in cold rolled 316L stainless steel via electropulsed annealing
Farah Ismail
Oxidation and oxygen transport in P/M cobalt-based Co-Al-W superalloys
Victor Wan
Fundamental modelling of fatigue crack nucleation and propagation in superalloys
Giuseppe Scatigno
Chloride-induced transgranular stress corrosion cracking of 304L austenitic stainless steel
prizes awarded Don Pashley prize for the best scientific content of a lecture
First prize: Joseph Steele Second prize: Eleonora D’Elia
Best public speaker
First prize: Karla-Luise Herpoldt Second prize: George Harrington
Best Scientific content of a poster First prize: Jorge Costa
Best poster design and layout First prize: Claudio Ferraro
Peter Evans
Twinning as a route to strain hardening, ductile TWIP Beta-Ti armour and containment alloys
Tiantian Zhang
Postgraduate Research Day
Crystal plasticity and HR-EBSD analysis of full-field strains and rotations under thermal loading in a Ni-base superalloy
Industrial relevance
First prize: Francesca Tallia
Materials image prize
First prize: Claudio Ferraro Second prize: Zoltan Hiezl
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Postdoctoral research staff
There are currently over 100 research assistants, postdoctoral research associates and postdoctoral research fellows working on a wide range of projects in the Department of Materials. The majority are embarking on careers in academia and are developing their autonomy as researchers in their respective fields. The Department of Materials assists in the development of its postdoctoral staff by encouraging them to take on a number of responsibilities related to both research and teaching, including: writing papers, giving presentations, reviewing publications, mentoring younger researchers, and assisting with teaching undergraduates. Additionally, postdoctoral staff may undertake some form of teaching or student supervision. The Postdoc Development Centre at Imperial is also committed to supporting our postdocs by providing a range of courses and development events, a series of publications and one-to-one coaching. The number of research assistants and postdoctoral research staff in the Department has increased steadily over the past few years as the figures in the following table indicate. The table summarises this information for the past three years: Session
Postdoctoral Research Associates and Assistants
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
2013–14
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24
2012–13
49
20
2011–12
50
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Postdoctoral Research Symposium
The 4th Postdoctoral Research Symposium took place on 29 January 2014. This annual event acts as a forum for postdoctoral staff to interact with other researchers, members of the Department as well as event sponsors. The research associates have an excellent opportunity to share and present their research, which helps to foster new collaborations within the Department and enables the development of additional transferable skills. The half-day programme commenced with a welcome by Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng, Head of Department, followed by Sam Keltie, an event sponsor, who introduced the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Material Horizons. Dr Liz Elvidge, Head of the Postdoc Development Centre, then gave an overview of the Postdoc Development Centre and the range of resources available for postdoctoral staff. Eight scientific presentations were given by postdoctoral research staff, followed by a poster session and drinks reception. The oral session highlighted the breadth of research being undertaken within the Department and gave an
overview of the techniques, equipment and expertise available to the Materials postdoc community. The postdocs also made excellent use of the poster session to present their work, exhibiting more than 30 posters. Researchers, academics and sponsors shared a drink before all the participants gathered for closing remarks and the prize award ceremony. The judging committee comprised both academics and external guests including representatives from Nature Materials, Materials Horizons, Lenton, Concept Scientific Instruments (CSI) and the Postdoc Development Centre. Prizes were awarded for Best Oral Presentation (first and second place) and Best Poster (first and second place). Overall, the 2014 symposium was a great success. Participation by far exceeded any previous event and attracted postdocs, academic staff, postgraduate students and external company representatives and sponsors. The Department of Materials is grateful to the Postdoc Development Centre and to Lenton, CSI, Nature Materials and Material Horizons for their generosity in sponsoring the Postdoctoral Research Symposium prizes.
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Postdoctoral Postdoctoral Research Symposium HIGHLIGHTS
oral presentations Dr Florent Tonus
In-situ SOFC cathode / electrolyte interaction study at operating conditions
Dr Manuela Russo
A solar battery based on titanium oxide hydrates / polyalcohol hybrids
Dr Salvador Eslava
Sonic-art experience n unusual collaboration A of Alberto Scaccabarozzi, Dr Ester BuchacaDomingo, Dr Christoph Hellman and Professor Natalie Stingelin with Mira Calix, an awardwinning composer, artist and performer who works with electronic-based music to incorporate more classical orchestration, led to the new sonic-art experience ‘The Sun is the Queen of Torches’. The piece, initiated by TEDAlbertopolis and inspired by solar powered materials (photovoltaics), was presented at the Brighton Dome in December 2013.
Photocatalyst-graphene composites for solar water splitting
Dr Rona Chandrawati
Capsosomesas biosensors for the detection of phospholipase activity
Dr Shu Chen
Nanoanalytical electron microscopy reveals that silver sulfidation in cell culture media and lung cells impacts on the pulmonary toxicity of nanosilver
Dr Christine-Maria Horejs
Biologically active laminin fragment reveals new link between the extracellular matrix and early embryonic development
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca Complex ceramic architectures by directed assembly of ‘smart’ nanoparticles
Dr Samuel Murphy
Point defects and non-stoichiometry in Li2TiO3
Growth of tin (II) monoxide and tin (IV) dioxide thin films by molecular beam epitaxy
Dr Joseph Franklin
poster presentations Dr Eleonora D’Elia
A bio-inspired self-healing composite
Dr Claudio Ferraro
Bio-inspired ceramic-base composite
Dr Miriam Miranda Fernandez
The influence of carbon nanostructures on the sintering of ZrO2 Graphene cellular networks
Gil Machado
Calcium phosphate scaffolds with controlled properties
Francesca Tallia
Functionalisation of OH groups in polymers for Class II hybrids for bone substitution
Dr Yuliya Vueva
Silica / alginate biohybrids with covalent coupling
Michele Pettinà
Modelling damage and failure in structural ceramics at ultra-high temperatures
Dr Ciro Chiappini
Biodegradable porous nanoneedles for multiplexed intracellular sensing
Dr Derfogail Delcassian
Highly conductive oxide top contacts for organic optoelectronics
Nanoscale artificial immune synapses can be used to controllably activate T Cells and NK cells
James Gilchrist
Dr Christoph Hellmann
Dr Sergey Belyakov
Dr Angela Goode
Dr Gowsihan Poologasundarampillai
Dr Rob Chapman
Uncovering the buried interface in organic photovoltaics Influence of the IMC layer on nucleation undercooling of β-Sn in solder joints
Direct 3D printing of bioactive sol-gel glass scaffolds for bone regeneration
Dr Kristina Kareh
Time-resolved X-ray tomography of granular semi-solid alloy deformation
Controlling the interaction of light with polymer semiconductors Mapping functionalised carbon nanotubes with EELS Enzymatically cleavable polymersomes for biomolecule encapsulation
Dr Helene Autefage
Gene microarray profiling of stem cells treated with strontium-substituted bioactive glasses
Dr Celia Pacheco Moreno
Organic conducting: insulating blends for bioelectronic applications
Dr Franziska Fleischli
Prizes awarded Dr Manuela Russo
Block copolymers as macrosurfactants: P3HT nanoparticles of varying size and properties dispersed in water
Best Oral Presentation, £100 (sponsored by Lenton) and a 1-year subscription to Nature Materials.
Dr Cephas Small
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca and Dr Christine-Maria Horejs
Inverted dithienogermolethienopyrrolodione based polymer solar cells with over 8% efficiency
Dr Ester Buchaca-Domingo
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Additive-assisted supramolecular manipulation of polymer: fullerene blend phase morphologies and its influence on photophysical processes
Dr Neil Treat
Nucleating agents in organic electronics
Joint Runners up, Best Oral Presentation, £50 (sponsored by CSI)
Dr Eleonora D’Elia
Best Poster Presentation, £100 (sponsored by CSI)
Dr Cephas Small
Runner up, Best Poster Presentation, £50 (sponsored by the Postdoc Development Centre)
Dr Shu Chen
Cationic, anionic and non-ionic watersoluble multi-walled carbon nanotubes, functionalised with minimal framework damage, for controlled biological investigations
Dr Jaime Martin Perez
Segmental Dynamics of Semicrystalline Polymer Nanowires and Nanotubes
Dr Laura Frisk
Effect of hydrolysis on the stability of PET films under harsh environments
Dr Louise Connell
Design of synthetic polymers for tailorable properties in hybrid materials for tissue engineering
Dr Maria Lopez Heras
Surface-functionalized silver nanoparticles for antibacterial therapeutics in the lung
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A key part of research engagement in our Department is presenting results to our peers in the UK and further afield. Listed here are details of talks given at national and international conferences.
Academic Staff Dr Ainara Aguadero Ceramic conducting oxides for next generation energy devices
Invited talk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, February 2014.
Processing control in superior Li-ion conducting electrolytes: the effect of moisture exposure Oral presentation, Power Our Future, Vitoria, Spain, April 2014.
Solid State NMR studies of Li and Na-based battery materials Oral presentation, Power Our Future, Vitoria, Spain, April 2014.
On the control of moisture corrosion processes for the optimization of transport properties in fast Li-conducting ceramic electrolytes
Oral presentation, Materials Research Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
Strain effects on the defect structure of thin film La0.5Sr0.5Mn0.5Co0.5O3-δ perovskites
Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, May 2014.
Effect of the current polarisation on the versatility of SrCoO3-δ derivatives as electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolisers Oral presentation, 11th European SOFC and SOE Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2014.
Oxides for solid state energy devices
Invited talk, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, August 2014.
Moisture control for the optimization of the microstructure and transport properties of Liconducting ceramic oxides
Oral presentation, Symposium on Energy Materials, Bath, UK, September 2014.
Ultrafast MAS solid-state NMR studies of battery materials; material performance and controlled atmosphere processing Oral presentation, GERMN2014 (IV Iberian NMR Meeting/VI Iberoamerican NMR Meeting), Alcala de Henares, Spain, September 2014.
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Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng Graphene – much ado about nothing…or lots to do?
Invited talk, Imperial-BASF IV Symposium, Imperial College London, London, UK, October 2013.
Why Materials Science is changing our lives Invited lecture, Highgate Scientific Society, London, UK, November 2013.
Graphene: super material
Invited lecture, Friends of Imperial College London, London, UK, April 2014.
Understanding micromechanical deformation behaviour with HREBSD Invited talk, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, June 2014.
CNE: Nuclear teaching
Oral presentation, Centre for Nuclear Engineering Advisory Panel Meeting on Nuclear Teaching, Imperial College London, London, UK, July 2014.
Deformation in metals – studies in the scanning electron microscope Invited talk, Purdue University, Lafayette, USA, August 2014.
Twins in HCP materials: stress fields and dislocation densities
Invited talk, Materials Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada, October 2013.
Micromechanical testing of zirconium alloys
Invited talk, Nuclear Department Research Seminars, HMS Sultan, Gosport, UK, October 2013.
Dislocation density distributions in deformed polycrystals Contributed talk, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
Energy education and training 2014
Oral presentation, UK Trade and Industry Meeting on Nuclear Education, London, UK, January 2014.
Understanding micromechanical deformation behaviour with HREBSD Invited talk, National Physics Laboratory, Teddington, UK, February 2014.
Optimising time resolved strain resolution with micro-Laue X-ray diffraction
Dr Iain Dunlop Nanoscale ligand spacing influences receptor triggering in immunological synapses
FREng Microstructure-sensitive fatigue crack nucleation criteria in ferritic steels
Invited lecture, Materials Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada, October 2013.
Non-proportionality of strain and coupling effects on dislocation distribution and ductility in ferritic steel polycrystals Invited lecture, Plasticity 14, Freeport, Bahamas, January 2014.
Ultrasonic wave propagation in polycrystal hexagonal materials: computational and experimental studies combined with EBSD for texture detection
Invited lecture, TMS 2014: 143rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, USA, February 2014.
An assessment of understanding of cold dwell fatigue from crystal plasticity and of what’s missing Invited lecture, CECAM Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2014.
Lattice strain distributions due to elastic distortions and GNDs in polycrystals
Contributed talk, TMS 2014: 143rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, USA, February 2014.
Invited lecture, Possibilities and Limitations of Quantitative Materials Modelling and Characterisation Workshop, Bernkastel-Kues, Germany, April 2014.
Micromechanical testing of zirconium alloys
Aspects of texture, properties and performance of Zr alloys
Invited talk, Centre for Nuclear Engineering Research Seminars, Imperial College London, London, UK, March 2014.
Invited lecture, International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation of Superalloys, Bochum, Germany, September 2014.
Invited talk, The Physics of Soft and Biological Matter Conference, Cambridge, UK, April 2014.
Professor Fionn Dunne Dr T Ben Britton
Slip localisation and fatigue crack nucleation in single crystal Ni-CMSX4 and in DS columnar grained Ni.
Invited lecture, Zirconium for Nuclear Applications Workshop, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, September 2014.
Dr David Dye Teaching phase diagrams and stress tensors with peer instruction: in understanding the art of flipping
Invited talk, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, September 2014.
The phenomenology of dwell fatigue and some known unknowns
CECAM workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, April 2014.
Professor Mike Finnis Possibilities and limitations of characterisation and modelling of defects, interfaces and phase transformations
Invited talk, Modelling Oxide Scale Growth: Insights, Progress, Limitations conference, Bernkastel-Kues, Germany, May 2014.
Defect chemistry in oxide scales
Invited talk, ICMR Summer Workshop on Ab-initio description of charged systems and solid/liquid interfaces for semiconductors and electrochemistry, Santa Barbara, USA, July 2014.
Dr Theoni Georgiou Manufacturing milestones for polymers business
Invited lecture, Medtek UK, London, UK, May 2014.
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Meeting and Exhibition, San Antonio, USA, March 2013.
Heterogeneous nucleation of intermetallics in Pb-free soldering Contributed talk, TMS 2014: 143rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, USA, February 2014.
Exploring the solidification of intermetallics with ESBD
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein Contribution to Science Medal Dr Helena Tellez, Dr John Druce, Professor Tatsumi Ishihara and Professor John Kilner were awarded the Christian Friedrich Schoenbein Contribution to Science Medal at the 11th European SOFC and SOE Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July 2014, for their project entitled: Decrease of the electrochemically active surface in mixed ionicelectronic conductors (MIECs) by impurity segregation.
Dr Finn Giuliani In-situ deformation of Niobium interlayers
Invited talk, CAMTEC III, University of Cambridge, UK, March 2014.
Dr Christopher Gourlay Solidification of Sn-0.7Cu-0.05Ni solder Contributed talk, TMS 2013: 142nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Antonio, USA, March 2013.
Dilatancy during semi-solid deformation
Invited talk, The Royal Microscopy Society ESBD Conference, London, UK, March 2014.
Competition between stable and metastable intermetallics during the solidification of Sn-rich Sn-Ni alloys
Invited talk, 4th International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes, Windsor, UK, July 2014.
Professor Robin Grimes FREng Preparing for nuclear new build – the UK’s experience
Annual statement, 58th International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2014.
Professor Peter Haynes Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory
CECAM Workshop: Theory, Modelling and Computational Methods for Semiconductors, Salford, UK, January 2014.
What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods?
Invited talk, Theory of Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, February 2014.
Big data and cloud computing in HPC: encouraging new customer uptake using CORE Plenary talk, High Performance Computing & Big Data conference, London, UK, February 2014.
Enhancing and utilising magnetism in phthalocyanine films and nanostructures
Bioactive glass: from Hench to hybrids
High temperature antiferromagnetism in phthalocyanine thin films and nanostructures
Inorganic-organic hybrids for bone regeneration
Invited talk, Leeds Condensed Matter Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, April 2014.
Contributed talk, European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Lille, France, May 2014.
Putting a spin on phthalocyanines
Invited talk, Centre for Plastic Electronics Annual Lecture, Imperial College London, London, UK, June 2014.
Tuning magnetism in molecular films using novel vacuum-based growth methods Invited talk, JSPS Symposium on Nanoscale Physics of Quantum Materials, Leeds, UK, August 2014.
Achieving strong and tuneable magnetic couplings in molecular thin films and nanowires
Invited talk, European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, September 2014.
Molecular materials for optoelectronics and spintronics
The importance of molecular orientation in organic photovoltaics
Invited talk, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Symposia, University of Gainesville, Florida, USA, February 2014.
Keynote lecture, 3rd International Symposium on Ceramic Nanotune Technology, Nagoya, Japan, March 2014.
Professor John Kilner The application of LEIS to surface studies in mixed electronic ionic conductors
Contributed talk, 13th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Okinawa, Japan, October 2013.
Ceramic oxygen ion conductors for electrochemical devices: the need for speed Invited talk, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Series, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2013.
Mixed conductors for energy applications
Invited talk, Qiushi Forum, Zhejiang University, China, September 2014.
Invited talk, Opening of the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, December 2013.
Molecular materials for optoelectronics and spintronics
Factors affecting the operation of oxygen electrodes
Plenary talk, sponsored by Maney Publishing (www.maneyonline.com), International Conference on Functional Materials, Shanghai, China, September 2014.
Dr Andrew Horsfield Modelling thin films subject to ultrafast laser pulses
Invited talk, Enhancing DoD Collaborations in Computational Materials Science and Engineering Conference, Dayton, USA, June 2014.
Professor Julian Jones Dr Sandrine Heutz
Keynote lecture, 25th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Bioactive glass: from Hench to hybrids
Plenary lecture, Bioceramics 25, Bucharest, Romania, November 2013.
Bioactive glass and sol-gel hybrids for regenerative medicine Plenary lecture, European Society of Glass, Parma, Italy, September 2014.
Keynote talk, International Conference on Hydrogen Production, Fukuoka, Japan, February 2014.
SrCoO3-δ derivatives as electrodes for SOFC and SOEC Contributed lecture, European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2014.
Isolating the influence of microstructural and strain properties on the oxygen ion transport in YSZ thin films
Contributed lecture, European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2014.
Enhanced ion transport in oxide thin films
Plenary lecture, Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Applications, Chicago, USA, July 2014.
Oxide surfaces at high temperature: implications for solid oxide fuel cells Keynote lecture, Energy Materials Symposium, Bath, UK, September 2014.
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Professor Norbert Klein Microwave to terahertz sensors: an old and new window into liquids, blood and cells
Invited Seminar, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland, October 2013.
Liquid detection by microwave resonators
Invited workshop, ARMMS RF & Microwave Society Workshop, Wyboston Lakes, St Neots, UK, November 2013.
Microwave to terahertz sensors: an old and new window into liquids, blood and cells
Invited seminar, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK, January 2014.
Materials research at KAUST and ICL: A B team for the future Invited talk, Global Collaborative Research Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2014.
Sensing of biological liquids at microwave-to-terahertz frequencies
Keynote lecture, The European EMMA Club Meeting, Teddington, UK, May 2014.
Microwave-to-terahertz measurements on biological liquids
Contributed talk, Application of Terahertz Spectroscopy to Protein Chemistry Workshop, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, July 2014.
Microwave-to-terahertz sensors: a challenge for graphene and beyond Invited seminar, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, June 2014.
Microwave-to-terahertz resonators for free-solution bio-sensing Invited workshop, European Microwave Week, Rome, Italy, October 2014.
Professor Bill Lee FREng The UK’s radioactive waste management programme
Invited talk, Materials Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada, October 2013.
Materials research for inertial fusion energy and magnetic confinement fusion
Invited talk, UK Inertial Fusion Energy Network Kick-off Meeting, London, UK, November 2013.
Understanding wasteforms from thermal treatment methods Invited talk, Thermal Treatment of
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Radioactive Wastes Meeting, Risley, UK, December 2013.
Nuclear R&D in UK universities
Invited talk, UK Trade and Investment UK-China Civil Nuclear Mission Industry Days, London, UK, January 2014.
Work package on UK legacy ponds and silos
Invited talk, Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Storage Solutions for Nuclear Waste Inventories. Consortium Kick-off Meeting, Leeds, UK, April 2014.
Current US/UK nuclear R&D collaborations
Invited talk, US/UK Technical Experts Workshop, Bilateral Civil Nuclear Energy R&D Cooperation, Institute Mechanical Engineering, London, UK, May 2014.
Materials needs in the UK nuclear programme
Invited talk, The Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum, London, UK, June 2014.
Fabrication, microstructural characterisation, oxidation and laser testing of ultra-high temperature ceramics
Invited talk, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, July 2014.
Fabrication, microstructural characterisation, oxidation and laser testing of ultra-high temperature ceramics
Invited talk, Beihang University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, July 2014.
Multifunctional cellular networks of chemically functionalized graphene Invited talk, 4th Molecular Materials Meeting, Singapore, January 2014.
Graphene-based 2D and 3D networks
Invited talk, Beyond Graphene Workshop, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK April 2014.
Graphene-based 2D and 3D multifunctional structures
Invited seminar, Begbroke Science Forum, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, June 2014.
Materials Symposium, Kentucky, USA, June 2014.
Dr David McPhail The characterisation of nanomaterials
Invited seminar, International Conference on the Advancement of Materials and Nanotechnology, Penang, Malaysia, November 2013.
Characterisation of nano-materials using SIMS
Graphene-based multifunctional 3D networks
Invited talk, International Conference on the Advancement of Materials and Nanotechnology, Penang, Malaysia, November 2013.
Graphene-based 2D and 3D functional structures
The application of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), low energy ion scattering, focused ion beam SIMS and stable isotope exchange protocols in Materials Science
Invited talk, 7th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2014.
Invited talk, 1st International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Aberdeen, UK, July 2014.
Dr Martyn McLachlan Heterojunctions, electrodes and interfaces – oxides in plastic electronics
Invited talk, International Colloquium on Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, November 2013.
Invited talk, International Conference on System Engineering and Modelling, University of Malaya, Malaysia, November 2013.
The application of SIMS and stable isotope exchange in Materials Science Invited speaker, Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry Workshop, Chandigarh, India, March 2014.
Dr Arash Mostofi Structure and properties of fullerene molecular crystals with linear-scaling van der Waals density functional theory
Structural ceramics for extreme environments
Oxide nanorods as heterojunctions and electron extracting layers in hybrid photovoltaics Contributed talk, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
Invited talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, USA, March 2014.
Challenges and opportunities for advanced ceramics and composites in the nuclear sector
Metal oxides for organic electronics: heterojunctions, interlayers and electrodes
Wannier90: design and development
Invited talk, Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, July 2014.
Invited talk, National Nuclear Laboratory Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK, September 2014.
Structural ceramics for extreme environments
Plenary lecture, Serbian Ceramic Society Conference: Advanced Ceramics and Applications III, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2014.
Dr Cecilia Mattevi Graphene and other 2D devices
Invited talk, Atoms to Devices: Low Dimensional Structures in Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, October 2013.
Invited talk, 3rd International Symposium on Ceramics Nanotune Technology, Nagoya, Japan, March 2014.
Towards non-planar structures for optoelectronic applications Invited talk, 3rd International Symposium on Ceramics Nanotune Technology, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, March 2014.
Metal oxides in plastic electronics: old materials for new technologies Invited talk, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 2014.
Oxide thin films in organic electronics
Invited talk, Kentucky Organic Electronic
Invited talk, CECAM Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2014.
Improving the conductivity of carbon nanotube networks
Invited talk, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, July 2014.
Improving the conductivity of carbon nanotube networks
Invited talk, Tel Aviv University, Israel, July 2014.
Dr Mark Oxborrow Room temperature masers
Invited talk, Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury, UK, October 2013.
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Fantastic aromatic: roomtemperature solid-state MASERs based on molecular intersystem crossing
Invited seminar, Department of Physics, University of Hull, Hull, UK, November 2013.
Organic masers: extremely low-noise electronics without refrigerators
Invited talk, 3rd UK-Korea Workshop on Plastic Electronics, London, UK, November 2013.
Dr David Payne Recent developments in laboratory-based high pressure photoelectron spectroscopy
Oral presentation, 9th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces, Lake Tahoe, USA, January 2014.
A periodic table of metal oxides
Invited talk, New Chemistry of the Elements Discussion Meeting, London, UK, May 2014.
Photoelectron spectroscopy: history, development and application
Invited talk, Advanced Experimental Methods for Energy Materials Characterisation Summer School, Delmenhorst, Germany, September 2014.
Recent developments in laboratory-based high pressure photoelectron spectroscopy
Oral presentation, European Materials Research Society, Warsaw, Poland, September 2014.
Dr Alexandra Porter Nanoscale imaging and analysis of the cell-nanomaterial interface
Invited talk, MMC2014, Manchester, UK, July 2014.
Imaging and electron spectroscopy of the MaterialsBiology Interface reveals insights into the impact of engineered nanomaterials on human physiology Invited talk, Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting, Hartford, USA, August 2014.
Nanoscale imaging and analysis of the cell-nanomaterial interface Invited talk, Biophysical Sciences Seminar Series, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, April 2014.
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Professor Jason Riley Improving chronic wound healing with self-signalling bispecific antibodies for bacterial detection
Invited lecture, Protein and Antibody Engineering Summit, Boston, USA, May 2014.
Dr Rongshan Qin Electropulsing-induced microstructure evolution in steels
Invited talk, 5th China-Russian Electroplasticity Symposium, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China, September 2014.
Nanostructured pearlitic steel
Invited talk, Modern Steels MS2014, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, July 2014.
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez Assembly of chemically modified graphene into macroscopic porous architectures
Keynote lecture, 5th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, Sitges, Spain, December 2013.
Bioinspired carbon composite materials by freeze casting
Invited talk, Royal Society International Scientific Seminar, Nanomaterials by Design – Manufacturing Carbon Nanomaterials for Future Markets, Chicheley, UK, March 2014.
Professor Stephen Skinner
Research Society Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, September 2013.
In-situ studies of novel solid oxide fuel cell electrodes
Bio-functionalised nanomaterials for ultrasensitive biosensing
Invited talk, 8th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Las Vegas, USA, December 2013.
Synthesis and characterisation of the surface structure of thin film oxides for use as mixed conductors in electrochemical cells Invited talk, Nanotek, Las Vegas, USA, December 2013.
Development of next generation fuel cell materials
Invited talk, Royal Society of Chemistry Easter Meeting, Milton Keynes, UK, April 2014.
In-situ characterisation of novel SOFC materials: neutron diffraction as an essential tool?
Invited talk, ISIS-Chalmers Neutron Diffraction Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2014.
Low symmetry oxide systems as potential next generation fuel cell materials
Keynote speaker, Australia-China Energy Symposium, Taiyuan, China, May 2014.
Synchrotron and neutron techniques to probe the structure and chemistry of novel fuel cell materials
Invited talk, STFC Supergen H2 & Fuel Cells Workshop, Didcot, UK, June 2014.
New interstitial oxide ion conductors for electrochemical applications
Bio-inspired ceramic materials
Invited talk, International Conferences on Modern Materials and Technologies, Montecatani Terme, Italy, June 2014.
Bio-inspired materials
Ionic and electronic transport in thin film ruddlesden-popper oxides
Invited talk, Begbroke Science Forum, Oxford, UK, April 2014. Invited talk, International Seminar on Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Regenerative Medicine, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, May 2014.
Building porous structures
Invited talk, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, May 2014.
Ceramic-based composites.
Invited talk, Macan Meeting, MaxPlanck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPI-E), Düsseldorf, Germany, June 2014.
Bioinspiración: qué podemos aprender de la naturaleza Invited talk, De Pais en Pais (From Country to Country), University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, September 2014.
Invited talk, 11th International Symposium on Systems with Fast Ionic Transport, Gdańsk-Sobieszewo, Poland, June 2014.
Professor Molly Stevens FREng Designing biomaterials for ultrasensitive biosensing and regenerative medicine
Keynote speaker, International Conference on Medical Physics, Brighton, UK, September 2013.
New materials-based approaches for biosensing and regenerative medicine Plenary lecture, European Materials
Plenary lecture, Italian Supramolecular meeting, Padova, Italy, September 2013.
Developing materials for use in regenerative medicine
Plenary lecture, Barts & The London Academic Medicine & Surgery Society National Research Conference, London, UK, October 2013.
Materials-based approaches for biosensing and regenerative medicine Keynote lecture, International Conference on Nanosciences and Healthcare, Paris, France, November 2013.
State of the art materials analysis of engineered tissue
Keynote lecture, TERMIS-AM Conference, Atlanta, USA, November 2013.
Designing artificial materials to control biology
Plenary lecture, Biology: A student’s guide to DNA and genetics at the A-Level/IB Student Study Day, London, UK, November 2013.
Healing the body with new materials
Plenary lecture, Cambridge University Scientific Society, Cambridge, UK, November 2013.
New materials-based approaches for regenerative medicine Keynote lecture, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
Public lecture – new materialsbased approaches for regenerative medicine
Plenary lecture, The Biochemical Society Annual Symposium – Biochemical Determinants of Tissue Regeneration, Macclesfield, UK, December 2013.
Designing biomaterials for ultrasensitive biosensing and regenerative medicine
Invited Lecture, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, January 2014.
New materials-based approaches for regenerative medicine Plenary lecture, ASME 2014 3rd World Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, San Francisco, USA, February 2014.
Does Materials Science ever meet a medical need?
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Investigating and engineering the cell-material interface Keynote lecture, GRC: Biointerface Science, Il Ciocco, Italy, June 2014.
New materials-based approaches for regenerative medicine
Plenary lecture, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Vancouver, Canada, June 2014.
Designing materials for regenerative medicine and ultrasensitive biosensing
Plenary lecture, NanoBio Australia, Brisbane, Australia, July 2014.
Engineering organs and other small challenges Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Seminar: Biomineralization, New London, USA, August 2014.
New biomaterials approaches for biosensing
Keynote lecture, Gordon Research Conference: Drug Carriers in Medicine & Biology, Waterville Valley, USA, August 2014.
Designing materials for regenerative medicine and biosensing
Keynote lecture, APS Pharm Sci, Hatfield, UK, September 2014.
Designing nanomaterials for biosensing and regenerative medicine
Keynote lecture, Kavli Nanoscience Symposium, Tondheim, Norway, September 2014.
Designing materials for regenerative medicine and ultrasensitive biosensing
Keynote lecture, Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery, Suzhou, China, September 2014.
Professor Natalie Stingelin Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Invited talk, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, October 2013.
Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Invited talk, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne, Australia, October 2013.
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Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Phase diagrams of complex materials: from the katana, Swiss chocolates to organic semiconducting devices
Solution processed inorganic/ organic photonic structures of low loss and tunable refractive index for use in optoelectronic devices
Controlling microstructure, order, and interfaces in semiconducting polymers
Invited talk, National University of Singapore, Singapore, October 2013.
Invited talk, International Colloquium on Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, November 2013.
On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends Contributed talk, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
Solution processed inorganic/ organic photonic structures of low loss and tunable refractive index for use in optoelectronic devices Contributed talk, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
Organic semiconducting: insulating blends for novel bioelectronics applications
Contributed talk, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, December 2013.
The principles of manipulating the phase transformations and solid-state order of organic semiconductors for manipulation of their photophysical properties
Invited talk, UK-Asia Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics, Beijing, China, December 2013.
OPV devices and structural aspects Invited talk, Joint Workshop on Energy Polymers, Potsdam-Golm, Germany, January 2014.
Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Invited talk, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, January 2014.
Future challenges in carbon-based electronics: a Materials scientist’s point of view Invited talk, Carbon Photonics and Electronics Triangle Research Forum Workshop, Raleigh, USA, February 4, 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic photovoltaic devices
Invited talk, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA, February 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices
Invited talk, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 2014.
Invited talk, JAIST International School on Japan-UK Nanotechnology Frontier 2014, Tokyo, Japan, March 2014.
Organic photovoltaics: a Materials scientist’s point of view Invited talk, Nano & Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy, Phoenix, USA, March 2014.
Solution processed inorganic/ organic photonic structures of low loss and tunable refractive index for use in optoelectronic devices Invited talk, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, April 2014.
Electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials: a Materials scientist’s point of view Invited talk, Solar Cell and Intelligent Lighting Workshop, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, April 2014.
Nucleating-agent-assisted microstructure formation in molecular and polymer semiconductors
Invited talk, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
‘Cool’ plastics: towards novel heat management concepts based on solution-processable inorganic/ organic hybrid systems and beyond Invited talk, High-Polymer Research Conference, Pott Shrigley, UK, April 2014.
On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends Invited talk, 6th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices Keynote lecture, Hengstberger Symposium on Organic Electronics, Heidelberg, Germany, May 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices
Invited talk, International Symposium on Optoelectronics, Materials and Energy, Nanjing, China, May 2014.
Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Invited talk, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA-CNRS-UJF) Grenoble, France, June 2014.
Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools
Invited talk, CIMTEC 2014: 6th Forum on New Materials, Montecatini Terme, Italy, June 2014.
What structural features do charge transfer states depend on?
Invited talk, Kentucky Organic Electronic Materials Workshop, Lexington, USA, June 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic photovoltaic devices
Invited talk, International Conference on Synthetic Metals, Turku, Finland, June 2014.
Solution processed inorganic/ organic photonic structures of low loss and tunable refractive index for use in optoelectronic devices Contributed talk, MACRO 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2014.
A solar battery based on titanium oxide hydrates-polyalcohol hybrids Contributed talk, MACRO 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2014.
‘Cool’ plastics: towards novel heat management concepts based on solution-processable inorganic/ organic hybrid systems and beyond Invited talk, Materials Horizons Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, July 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices
Invited talk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, August 2014.
On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends Invited talk, Excitonic Photovoltaics (XPV), Telluride, USA, August 2014.
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Invited talk, SPIE: Optics & Photonics Conference, San Diego, USA, August 2014.
Semiconducting: insulating polymer blends: processing, structure and opportunities for the OFET field Invited talk, SPIE: Optics & Photonics Conference, San Diego, USA, August 2014.
What structural features do charge transfer states (and other photophysical processes) depend on? Invited talk, SPIE: Optics & Photonics Conference, San Diego, USA, August 2014.
‘Cool’ plastics: towards novel heat management concepts based on solution-processable polymers and inorganic/organic hybrid systems
Invited talk, 2nd ERC Grantees Conference: Frontiers in Chemistry – the Basis for Advanced Materials, Berlin, Germany, August 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices
Invited talk, Kathmandu Symposia on Advanced Materials, Kathmandu, Nepal, September 2014.
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic optoelectronic devices
Invited talk, International Fall School on Organic Electronics, Moscow, Russia, September 2014.
Dr Mark Wenman Modelling of nuclear fuel pins and fuel cladding materials
Invited talk, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, March 2014.
HIGHLIGHTS
The power of Materials Science tools for gaining insights in organic photovoltaic devices
Overview of hydrogen in Zr alloys research
Invited talk, EDF Energy, Barnwood, UK, May 2014.
Fuel performance and damage modelling using finite element and peridynamics
Invited talk, Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2014.
Dr Fang Xie Nanoscale engineered optical platforms for early diagnosis of cancer
Invited talk, 22nd Annual International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering, Valletta, Malta, July 2014.
Plasmonic Materials Nanoscale Engineering for light harvesting
Invited talk, International Conference on Functional Materials, Shanghai, China, September 2014.
Pb-free Solders and Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Materials Symposium Dr Sergey Belyakov won the Best Poster award for his poster entitled: Influence of the IMC layer on nucleation undercooling of βSn in solder joints at the Pb-free Solders and Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Materials Symposium at TMS 2014 in San Diego, USA. Sergey is supervised by Dr Christopher Gourlay.
Dr Luc Vandeperre Deformation of ultra-high temperature ceramics
Invited lecture, 8th International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics, Chongqing, China, November 2013.
An overview of the high temperature deformation of ultrahigh temperature ceramics Invited lecture, 38th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Daytona Beach, USA, January 2014.
Dr Nadav Amdursky Serum albumin as the basis for bioelectronic materials: from the single molecular level to 3D structures
Poster presentation, Recent Appointees in Materials Science Conference, Bath, UK, September 2014.
Dr Hélène Autefage Effect of ions released from bioactive glass-based bone substitute on relevant cell types for osteochondral applications
Poster presentation, Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology
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Network: Science, Surgery, Sports and Rehabilitation, London, UK, April 2014.
Gene microarray profiling of stem cells treated with strontium-substituted bioactive glasses reveals an upregulation of mevanolate and steroid biosynthesis pathways
Poster presentation, Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology Network: Science, Surgery, Sports and Rehabilitation, London, UK, April 2014.
Unsupervised techniques unexpectedly highlight steroid biosynthesis in the global response of human MSC to strontium-substituted bioactive glasses
Oral presentation, 26th European Conference on Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Effect of strontium incorporation with bioactive glasses on human mesenchymal stem cell whole gene expression Oral presentation, Medical Engineering Centre Annual Meeting and Bioengineering14, London, UK, September 2014.
Dr Sergio Bertazzo Electron and Ion Microscopy to Bridge Materials, Biology and Medicine
Invited talk. Bioelectronics Group, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany, November 2013.
Materials Science in Medicine and Biology: a new research perspective
Invited talk, Centre for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, August 2014.
Cardiovascular calcification: A unique biomineralization process Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Biomineralization, New London, USA, August 2014.
Dr Ioan Botiz Enhancing the photoluminescence emission of conjugated polymers by light processing
Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conferences: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials; New Frontiers in the Chemistry and Physics of Organic Electronic and Opto-Electronic Materials, Lucca, Italy, May 2014.
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Enhancing the photoluminescence emission of conjugated polymers by light processing Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials; Exploring the Fundamentals of Organic Electronics, Lucca, Italy, May 2014.
Dr Rona Chandrawati Capsosomes as biosensors for the detection of phospholipase activity
Oral presentation, 2nd International Conference on Nanotechnology in Medicine, London, UK, February 2014.
Intact liposomal subcompartments in electrospun polymer fibers: towards a functional therapeutic delivery platform Oral presentation, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
Plasmonic and fluorescent particle biosensors for the detection of blood coagulation factor XIII and phospholipase activity Oral presentation, 5th International NanoMedicine Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2014.
Dr Ciro Chiappini Biodegradable silicon nanoneedles for intracellular delivery and sensing
Oral presentation, Recent Appointees in Materials Science Conference, Bath, UK, September 2014.
Dr Lesley Chow Peptide-polymer conjugates for dynamic, functionally diverse tissue engineered scaffolds
Poster presentation, Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology Network: Science, Surgery, Sports and Rehabilitation, London, UK, April 2014.
Glycosaminoglycan-binding peptides to functionalise scaffolds for articular cartilage regeneration Poster presentation, Medical Engineering Initiative Annual Networking Event, London, UK, September 2014.
Dr Louise Connell Characterisation and synthesis of chitosan-silica hybrid materials: Focus on functionalization www.imperial.ac.uk/materials
Oral presentation, 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2013.
Design of synthetic polymers for tailorable properties in hybrid materials for tissue engineering
Poster presentation, 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2013.
Bone repair with tailor-made synthetic materials
Building complex structures with smart building blocks
Invited talk, International workshop in Advanced Ceramics, Erlangen, Germany, September 2014.
Dr Maggie Holme Investigating liposome sensitivity towards phospholipase c and d Poster presentation, Liposome Research Days, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2014.
Poster presentation, SET for Britain, London, UK, March 2014.
Functionalising natural polymers with alkoxysilane coupling agents for tissue engineering applications Oral presentation, European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann Characterisation of shedding microvesicles as carriers for small molecule drugs
Poster presentation, 13th European Symposium on Controlled Drug Delivery, Egmont aan Zee, Netherlands, April 2014.
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca Manufacturing of complex and hierarchical ceramic structures following a bottom-up approach
Oral presentation, 5th International Conference on Biomechanics of Tissues and Biomaterials, Sitges, Spain, December 2013.
New manufacturing approaches to multifunctional structures for energy applications Invited talk, Faculty of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, January 2014.
Bottom-up assembly of complex and hierarchical ceramic structures
Oral presentation, Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics Industrial Day, Imperial College London, London, UK, January 2014.
3D Manufacturing: from basic science to industry and to the high street Invited talk, Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics Summer School, Imperial College London, London, UK September 2014.
Dr Christine-Maria Horejs The cleavage of laminin-111 by MMP-2 affects early differentiation of murine ESCs and iPS cells
Oral presentation, Federation of European Biochemical Societies Young Scientists’ Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2013.
The cryptic extracellular matrix and its impact on stem cell differentiation.
Invited Lecture, King’s College, Division for Biomaterials, Biomimetics & Biophotonics, London, UK, April 2014.
Introducing a new biologically active laminin fragment to modulate stem cell differentiation Oral presentation, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
The cryptic extracellular matrix and its impact on stem cell differentiation
Oral presentation, Invited Lecture, Karolinska University, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2014.
Quantum dots for the detection of microRNAs as biomarkers of influenza infection
Poster presentation, New Frontiers in Digital Technologies for Influenza, London, UK, June 2014.
Quantum dots for multiplexed detection of microRNAs as biomarkers of myocardial fibrosis Poster presentation, Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Research Forum, London, UK, July 2014.
Quantum dots for the detection of microRNAs as biomarkers of influenza infection
Poster presentation, Gordon Research Seminar: Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Rhode Island, USA, July 2014.
Dr Jiang Jun Evolution of geometrically necessary dislocation density in cyclically deformed copper
Oral presentation, Royal Microscopy Society EBSD Conference, London, UK, March 2014.
Geometrically necessary dislocation grain boundary orientation dependence study
Poster presentation, Royal Microscopy Society EBSD Conference, London, UK, March 2014.
Dr Pakatip Ruenraroengsak Translocation of carbon nanotubes across the alveolar epithelial barrier
Poster presentation, European Respiratory Society International Congress, Munich, Germany, September 2014.
Dr Denis Horlait MAX phases for ATF cladding: projects at Imperial College London & advanced TEM: PhD proposal
Oral presentation, CARAT 2nd Conference on MAX Phase Collaboration, Manchester, UK, June 2014.
Dr Jean-Philippe St-Pierre Anisotropic scaffold to direct zonally distinct articular cartilage tissue regeneration
Oral presentation, Medical Engineering Centres Annual Meeting and Bioengineering, London, UK, September 2014.
Dr Philip Howes Quantum dots for multiplexed detection of microRNAs as biomarkers of myocardial fibrosis
Poster presentation, International Conference on Nanotechnology in Medicine, Rhode Island, USA, February 2014. Department of Materials Annual Report 2013–14
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OUT AND ABOUT Postgraduate research students HIGHLIGHTS
Polina Brangel Development of quantum dot multiplexing platform for the detection of microRNA and protease in clinical samples
Oral presentation, Gordon Research Seminar: Bioanalytical sensors, Newport, USA, June 2014.
ICFPAM Conference Prize Francesca Tallia was awarded the Best Poster Prize at 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials (ICFPAM), in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2013 for her poster entitled: Functionalisation of OH groups in polymers for Class II hybrids for bone substitution. Francesca is supervised by Professor Julian Jones and Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez on the BioBone ITN.
Development of quantum dot multiplexing platform for the detection of microRNA and protease in clinical samples
Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Bioanalytical sensors, Newport, USA, June 2014.
Patrick Burr Solution of hydrogen and impurities in intermetallic phase of beryllium
Oral presentation, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, October 2013.
Hydrogen solubility in zirconium intermetallic second phase particles
Poster presentation, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, October 2013.
DFT investigation of dilute Fe and Cr additions in Zr: implications for irradiated Zr alloys Oral presentation, Universities Nuclear Technology Forum, Oxford, UK, April 2014.
Clustering of Cr and Fe in irradiated Zr alloys
Oral presentation, Computer Simulation of Radiation Effects in Solids Conference, Alicante, Spain, June 2014.
Astrid Armgarth Biofunctional conducting polymers for tissue engineering
Oral presentation, 1st International Winterschool on Bioelectronics, Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria, February 2014.
Solid-state processing – new exciting avenues to develop in-vitro models for electrical stimulation of cells.
Oral presentation, Centre for Plastic Electronics Annual Lecture, Imperial College London, London, UK, June 2014.
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Omar Cedillos Barraza Microstructure and mechanical properties of (Ta,Hf)C ultra-high temperature ceramics
Oral presentation, 38th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, USA, January 2014.
Solid solution processing and characterisation of (Ta,Hf)C ternary carbines
Poster presentation, British Ceramic Confederation and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network Meeting: Defect reduction in Ceramics, Stoke-onTrent, UK, March 2014.
Evgeniy Donchev Systematic study of metalinsulator-metal diodes with a native diode
Oral Presentation, International Society for Optics and Photonics: Optics + Photonics Conference, San Diego, USA, August, 2014.
Claudio Ferraro Bio-inspired SiC structures
Oral presentation, European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, September 2013.
Rachel Harrison Engineering of gliding surfaces; focusing on the human hand
Poster presentation, Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology Network: Science, Surgery, Sports and Rehabilitation, London, UK, April 2014.
Engineering gliding surfaces; focusing on the human hand
Poster presentation, Imperial Graduate School Summer Research Symposium, London, UK, July 2014.
Engineering of gliding surfaces; focusing on the human hand.
Oral presentation, Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine, Girona, Spain, September 2014.
Harriet Gliddon TB or not TB: a diagnostic test for tuberculosis using nanoparticle detection of a whole blood multigene expression signature
Poster presentation, Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Programme Colloquium, Imperial College London, London, UK, September 2014.
Sarah Greasley Bioactive glass nanoparticles for therapeutic applications and incorporation into hybrids for bone regeneration
Oral presentation, European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Cassandra Harris Investigating superstructured oxides as potential candidates for improved proton transport
Poster presentation, Functional Inorganic Materials, Liverpool, UK, September 2013.
Ce1-xAxNbO4±δ: A new oxygen excess and deficient fast ion conductor
Poster presentation, H2FC Supergen Researcher Conference, Birmingham, UK, December 2013.
Ce1-xSrxNbO4±δ: A new fast ion conductor for SOFC and related applications
Oral presentation, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
Karla-Luise Herpoldt Point-of-care detection of HIV-1 protease with peptide nanosensors
Poster presentation, Australian Society for Biophysics, Melbourne, Australia, November 2013.
Peptide nanosensors for the pointof-care detection of HIV-1 protease Oral presentation, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2014.
Multivalent biomolecular interactions as inhibitors of HIV-1 protease
Oral presentation, Gordon Research Seminar: Bioinspired Materials, Maine, USA, June 2014.
Multivalent biomolecular interactions as inhibitors of HIV-1 protease Poster presentation, Gordan Research Conference: Bioinspired Materials, Maine, USA, June 2014.
Zoltan Hiezl Preparation and characterisation of UO2-based SIMFuel
Oral presentation, Materials Research Society: Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, Barcelona, Spain, September 2013.
Preparation and characterisation of UO2-based SIMFuel
Oral presentation, Universities Nuclear Technology Forum, Oxford, UK, April 2014.
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Processing and microstructural characterisation of UO2-based ceramics
Oral presentation, International Young Nuclear Congress, Burgos, Spain, July 2014.
Preparation and characterisation of UO2-based AGR SIMFuel Oral presentation, FIRST-Nuclide Workshop and Spent Fuel Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2014.
Coline Jumeaux Gold-silica hybrid nanovectors for combined cancer therapy and imaging
Oral presentation, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Chapter Conference, Kent, UK, July 2014.
Gold-silica hybrid nanovectors for combined cancer therapy and imaging
Oral presentation, European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Maria Nelson 3D Printed silica-gelatin hybrid tissue scaffolds
Oral presentation, European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, September 2013.
Alireza Rahnama Electropulse-induced texture evolution in TRIP steel
Oral presentation, 3rd National Student Conference in Metallic Materials, London, UK, June 2013.
Poster presentation, BIOBONE-ITN FP7 Workshop, Lyon, France, November 2013.
Bioactive glasses for bone and cartilage tissue engineering
Oral presentation, BIOBONE-ITN FP7 Workshop, Davos, Switzerland, April 2014.
Hypoxia mimicking glasses for osteochondral tissue engineering
Poster presentation, eCM XV: Cartilage & Disc: Repair and Regeneration, Davos, Switzerland, June 2014.
The effect of bioactive glass ionic dissolution products on chondrogenesis
Poster presentation, Future investigators of regenerative medicine symposium, Girona, Spain, September 2014.
The response of human mesenchymal stem cells to bioactive glass ionic dissolution products
Oral presentation, European Materials Research Society, Warsaw, Poland, September 2014.
Hypoxia mimicking glasses for use as chronic wound dressings
Oral presentation, European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Hypoxia mimicking glasses for use as chronic wound dressings Oral presentation, Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine Symposium, Girona, Spain, September 2014.
Alessondra Speidel Bioscaffold engineering for cardiac progenitor transplantation.
Oral presentation, Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine Symposium, Girona, Spain, September 2014.
Joseph Steele Development of an anisotropic articular cartilage scaffold
Invited talk, Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Knee Surgery and Rehabilitation in 2013, London, UK, November 2013.
Zonally-distinct tissue regeneration within anisotropic articular cartilage scaffolds
Poster presentation, Imperial College Musculoskeletal Technology Network: Science, Surgery, Sports and Rehabilitation, London, UK, April 2014.
Francesca Tallia Functionalisation of OH groups in polymers for class II hybrids for bone substitution
Poster presentation, 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2013.
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Poster presentation, Musculoskeletal Technology Network Meeting, Imperial College London, London, UK, April 2014.
Tough silica/PCL hybrid materials for tissue regeneration
Crystal plasticity and HR-EBSD analysis of full-field strains and rotations under thermal loading in a Ni-base superalloy
Oral presentation, Optimising Performance through Integrated Modelling of Microstructure Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2014.
Oral presentation, 26th Annual Conference of the European Society of Biomaterials, Liverpool, UK, August 2014.
Tough Silica/PCL hybrid materials for tissue regeneration
Oral presentation, European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, September 2014.
Anu Solanki
Elena Littmann Effects of strontium-substituted bioactive glasses on human mesenchymal stem cells
Tough bio-inspired silica/ PCL hybrid materials for bone substitution
Leo Tsui The influence of defects on the band gaps of ScxGa1-xN films
Oral presentation, The International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Warsaw, Poland, August 2014.
Amanda You Raman and nano-analytical electron microscopy characterisation of human cardiovascular tissue calcification in disease
Poster presentation, FT-IR Spectroscopy in Microbiological and Medical Diagnostics, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany, October 2013.
Characterisation of human cardiovascular tissue in calcific disease using Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy
Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference: Biomineralization, New London, USA, August 2014.
Classification and characterisation of human cardiovascular tissue in medial calcification using Raman spectroscopy Oral presentation, 6th Biennial Heart Valve Biology & Tissue Engineering Meeting, London, UK, September 2014.
Tiantian Zhang Gradient-dependent crystal plasticity analysis of thermal strains across grain boundaries
Oral presentation, 14th European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2014.
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