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Ex-TCM researcher leads Liverpool Football Clubs data department

29 June 2020

Former Cavendish PhD student in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Ian Graham, now leads Liverpool Football Club's data department .

Hugo Lepage awarded prestigious IET Postgraduate Scholarship

29 June 2020

We are pleased to report that the Institution of Engineering and Technology has awarded Hugo Lepage, a graduate student in Prof Crispin Barnes' Thin Film Magnetism group, an IET Postgraduate Scholarship for an Outstanding Researcher .

Preliminary works begin on the Cavendish 3 site

18 June 2020

As part of the verification of technical aspects of the design of Cavendish III, two large concrete slabs have this week been cast on the site of the new building. The area depicted will ultimately form the base of the cycle storage under the raised plaza.

ONDREJ KRIVANEK - WINNER OF THE 2020 KAVLI PRIZE IN NANOSCIENCE

1 June 2020

Prof. Ondrej Krivanek has received the Kavli Prize for Nanoscience , along with German researchers Harald Rose, Max Haider, and Knut Urban, for his work on “sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams”. Since completing his Ph.D. in the Cavendish Laboratory under Prof. Archie Howie in 1975...

Dr Claire Donnelly awarded European Magnetism Association’s Young Scientist Award 2020

15 May 2020

Dr Claire Donnelly, a Leverhulme Fellow in Prof Russell Cowburn's group, has been awarded the European Magnetism Association’s Young Scientist Award 2020 "for advances in the experimental characterization of spin textures and their dynamics in three dimensions with X-ray techniques."

Fellows of the Royal Society

30 April 2020

The Cavendish Laboratory is proud to announce that two of its staff members, Professor Didier Queloz and Dr Sarah Teichmann, have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. We congratulate them both on this well-deserved recognition of their outstanding research. The full text of the Royal Society biographies is below...

Cavendish PhD student Theo Lundberg awarded prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship

17 April 2020

Theo Lundberg, a PhD student in the Optoelectronics Group of the Cavendish has been awarded a prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship . The Fellowship will support Theo's doctoral research on the implementation of spin-based qubits in silicon devices that are fabricated with techniques compatible with today’s large-scale...

Henning Sirringhaus awarded Royal Society Research Professorship

15 April 2020

We are delighted to report that Henning Sirringhaus has been awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship , the Royal Society’s premier research award. These prestigious appointments provide long-term support for internationally recognised scientists of exceptional accomplishments. Henning's project is entitled...

James (Jim) Scott 1942 - 2020

8 April 2020

Jim was a larger than life personality, who made huge contributions to the field of ferroelectrics. After studying at Harvard and working at Bell Laboratories, he spent a long stint on the faculty at the University of Colorado, where he integrated ferroelectrics with silicon, co-founded the Symetrix Corporation and paved...

ERC Enhanced Grants awarded for Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics

1 April 2020

Two top researchers in the Cavendish Laboratory working in the areas of Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics have each won a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, totalling nearly £5M. Professors Mete Atatüre and Jeremy Baumberg both work on diverse ways to create new and strange interactions of light...

Ex-TCM researcher leads Liverpool Football Clubs data department

Hugo Lepage awarded prestigious IET Postgraduate Scholarship

Preliminary works begin on the Cavendish 3 site

ONDREJ KRIVANEK - WINNER OF THE 2020 KAVLI PRIZE IN NANOSCIENCE

Dr Claire Donnelly awarded European Magnetism Association’s Young Scientist Award 2020

Fellows of the Royal Society

Cavendish PhD student Theo Lundberg awarded prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship

Henning Sirringhaus awarded Royal Society Research Professorship

James (Jim) Scott 1942 - 2020

ERC Enhanced Grants awarded for Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics

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