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December 2004

Paul Hogg with (from left to right) Profs Srivastava, Soutis and Kawada being interviewed by local television

Paul gives plenary talk in India

23 December 2004

Paul Hogg presented an invited Plenary lecture on toughening of composite materials at the "Recent Advances in Composite Materials", (ICRACM) meeting in Varanasi, India held 17-19th December 2004. The meeting was sponsored by AOARD and numerous local materials businesses and attracted about 200 delegates, mainly from India. The local media took … [more]

Nobel Laureate Fenn with Dr Jayasinghe at the start of the symposium

Queen Mary Materials lead MRS (USA) Symposium

16 December 2004

A Materials Research Society (USA) Fall Meeting Symposium entitled ‘Materials Issues in Solid Freeforming’ with Dr. Suwan Jayasinghe as the lead organiser was held on 29-30 November 2004 in Boston, USA. The symposium started with a special address by Professor John Fenn Nobel Laureate (Chemistry). Several sessions followed with invited papers … [more]

Suwan appointed as Academic Fellow

16 December 2004

I am really pleased to let you know, that after open advertisement, a University Appointments Panel chaired by the Vice-Principal have appointed Suwan as a (Sir Gareth Roberts) Academic Fellow, sponsored by the Research Councils of UK. Academic Fellows are five year appointments, guaranteed by a permanent post (see http://… [more]

Materials Christmas Party

Materials Christmas Party

15 December 2004

This year Christmas party was held at Context in Finsbury Square. Here are some pictures of the Staff and students REALLY enjoying themselves!

Queen Mary in Top 10 UK Universities for Student Employability

14 December 2004

Employment Performance Indicators in Higher Education 2002/3 published by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) - Almost 95% of Queen Mary students are in employment or further study six months after graduation - Queen Mary ranked sixth best for student employment performance for non-specialist higher education institutions in England. - Queen Mary performs … [more]

Four New Visiting Professors Have Joined The Department

13 December 2004

Professors Asim Ray, Piet Lemstra, Huibin Xu and Atsushi Murakami have been appointed as Visiting Professors to our Department untill the 30th of September 2008. Prof Asim Ray has a long track record of research in the field of electronic materials and has considerable experience in academic research and academic administration … [more]


November 2004

Paul with Professor Jie Tao

New link with China

25 November 2004

The Department has signed an agreement for a new undergraduate link with China. The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics will now join the group of select Chinese universities participating in a 2+3 and 3+2 joint degree programme resulting in an M.Eng degree from the University of London. The agreement was … [more]

Paul joins the Board of the National Composites Network

Paul joins the Board of the National Composites Network

25 November 2004

A new Knowledge Transfer Network has been created for the UK Composites industry, funded by the DTI with additional support from regional development agencies and key composite organisations such as Airbus and GKN Aerospace. Paul Hogg, in his capacity as Research Director of the Composites Processing Association, has been appointed … [more]

QMUL is rated the top 100th University in the World

QMUL is rated the top 100th University in the World

25 November 2004

In the latest "World University Rankings" by The Times Higher education supplement, QMUL is rated the top 100th University in the World, ahead of Glasgow, Birmingham, Durham, Leeds, York, and Sheffield. QMUL is also among the top 50 Universities in Europe and the 14th in the UK . I think that is … [more]

Paul receiving Guest Prof Award from Huibin Xu

Paul Guests in China

24 November 2004

Paul Hogg has been appointed as a Guest Professor of the Department of Materials at Beihang University in China. The appointment was confirmed at a ceremony in Beijing during Paul's recent trip to China. During the visit to Beihang, Paul was also able to confirm the appointment of Professor Huibin … [more]


October 2004

EPSRC Engineering Functional Materials Research Programme Grant Success

7 October 2004

Professor Mohan Edirisinghe and Dr Suwan Jayasinghe of the Aerosol Science & Technology Group together with Dr Robert Dorey in the School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science at Cranfield University have been awarded one of the 22 grants (out of 116) funded under the above programme, which invited proposals for adventurous exploratory projects … [more]


July 2004

EPSRC Medical Engineering Funding for Materials Department for QMUL-Cambridge Collaboration

23 July 2004

Under the responsive mode, the Healthcare Prioritisation Panel (Engineering) of EPSRC has awarded a £437K research grant for collaboration between Professor Mohan Edirisinghe and Professor William Bonfield FRS (Cambridge University). The research will investigate on novel forming routes to create nano- and micro- topographies of several types of nano-hydroxyapatites (nHA). … [more]

Brains meets Prof. Busfield

Brains gives colloquium to rubber group

8 July 2004

In the July edition of Thunderbirds magazine, having rescued the stricken workers from the burning oil rig, Brains (under his alias of Mr Hackenbacker) meets Dr. Busfield to give a colloquia at the college on the properties of rubber. It would appear that the global reach of the excellence of … [more]


June 2004

Luklinska et al - Winner of the MINTIG Award

Luklinska et al - Winner of the MINTIG Award

8 June 2004

For Research into Mineralised Tissue, awarded by the British Society for Dental Research 2004. The presentation was entitled: Mechanism of Osteoinduction by Pseudowollastonite (psW) Ceramic. The authors were: L. BROWN (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry), Z. LUKLINSKA (Queen Mary, University of London), P. DE AZA (Universidad Migel … [more]


May 2004

Left to Right: Dr Suwan Jayasinghe, Dr Hongbo Zhang, Karthic Balasubramaniam, 
Dr Colette Bowe, Rajesh Pareta and Professor Mohan Edirisinghe in the Advanced Jet-based Processing Laboratory

Visit of Dr Colette Bowe to the Department

12 May 2004

The Chairman of Council, Dr Colette Bowe met the Aerosol Science & Technology research group (see web link below) in the Department of Materials on the 12th of May 2004. She visited the new Advanced Jet-based Processing Laboratory of the group and was shown some examples of their research. The nine-member group … [more]

MBA at Queen Mary -

6 May 2004

'A new programme is giving scientists and engineers the management skills that they need.' An article interviewing Prof Paul Hogg, by Stephen McCormack


April 2004

Student support team

Teaching Support Team - Get a Big Thumbs Up

26 April 2004

The new teaching support team all of whom were recruited in 2003 to assist in the delivery of all our taught programmes have received a glowing commendation from the students. From the most recent student opinion survey conducted at the end of the last session, it was clear that the students … [more]

Student at last years summer school

Summer Schools - Huge Demand Results in Extra Dates

23 April 2004

Due to an unprecedented increase in demand from students for places on this year's summer schools, the number of dates that are available have been increased to eight. The new dates are all listed on the following web site. [more]

NASA Scientist (Glenn Research Centre) visits the Materials Department

NASA Scientist (Glenn Research Centre) visits the Materials Department

15 April 2004

Dr Frances Hurwitz from the Materials Division, NASA recently visited the Materials Department (under EPSRC Platform Funding collaboration). Dr Hurwitz spent a week in the Advanced Jet-based Materials Processing Laboratory in the Department and also gave a colloquium on advanced materials research at NASA. Several projects, which could enhance further … [more]


March 2004

Tim Hong - winner of the Best Poster Prize at Materials Congress 2004

Tim Hong - winner of the Best Poster Prize at Materials Congress 2004

31 March 2004

Many congratulations to Mr. Tim Hong, who has won the "Best Poster Prize" in the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Session of the Materials Congress 2004, IOMMM The poster is entitled, "Synthesis and Characterisation of New Ti Implant Materials" Tim is pictured here next to his prize winning poster [more]

EPSRC SUPERGEN Grant to QMUL

26 March 2004

The EPSRC has recently awarded around £3.5million to the UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (SHEC) to conduct research in Hydrogen Storage Materials. The Materials Department/QMUL, led by Professor Guo and Dr. Yan Song, is one of the key members of the consortium and will receive over £400K for the … [more]

Steering ahead with hydrogen

Steering ahead with hydrogen

26 March 2004

Professor Guo has delivered a public lecture with the above title, invited by the Richmond Scientific Society, in association with The British Association for the Advancement of Science. The lecture looks into the potential benefit and impact of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier on transportation and domestic applications, and … [more]


February 2004

Cristina Gomes de Sousa

Materials Department win at the IOMMM Lecture Competition

26 February 2004

Congratulations are due to Cristina Gomes de Sousa for winning the Senior Lecture Competition at the IOMMM on the 26 February 2004. She will now go on to present at the Regional Finals on the 16th March 2004. Other presenters from the Department of Materials and the IRC were Chibisi Chima-Okereke, Steven Mallon … [more]

Former Student, Cleo Choong, wins BP Young Engineer Prize

Former Student, Cleo Choong, wins BP Young Engineer Prize

11 February 2004

Beating 107 for the UK's top young research engineers, Cleo Choong was awarded the 2003 BP Younger Engineers Award and Gold Medal for Excellence in Engineering by a Younger Engineer at the House of Commons reception on 15 December. The competition's aim is to present a panorama of high quality engineering research, with … [more]

New Jets discovered by Dr. Jayasinghe & Prof. Edirisinghe

New Jets discovered by Dr. Jayasinghe & Prof. Edirisinghe

10 February 2004

A new class of fine jets referred to as Electrically Forced Jets (EFJ) and a new mode of atomization (the ball-cone) have been recently discovered by Dr. Suwan Jayasinghe and Prof. Mohan Edirisinghe of the Aerosol Science & Technology Research Group in the Materials Department. Their discovery is elucidated in the … [more]


January 2004

Chinese New Year Party

Chinese New Year Party

21 January 2004

The Department Celebrated the Chinese New Year at the floating Lotus Restaurant. The food was great and the karaoke wasn't too bad either!

EPSRC Nanotechnology Grant for the Clean Materials Technology Group

EPSRC Nanotechnology Grant for the Clean Materials Technology Group

12 January 2004

The Clean Technology group headed by Dr Jawwad Darr [EPSRC Advanced research fellow and lecturer] have been awarded £122K grant for 2 years. The research will develop mixing of environmentally friendly emulsions (in supercritical fluids) to controllably grow very small inorganic materials for use in the healthcare and the pottery industries. … [more]

Lakis Kaounides - the new Director for Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

New Director for Technology Management, Lakis Kaounides, joins the Department

4 January 2004

Lakis Kaounides, the new Director for the Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship has joined the Department. Lakis has been appointed to provide leadership in the Department's expanding activities in the field of Technology Management. This goes beyond our new MBA/MSc programmes in Technology Exploitation and Management and includes … [more]

Prof Mohan Edirisinghe appointed Editor of British Ceramic Transactions

Prof Mohan Edirisinghe appointed Editor of British Ceramic Transactions

1 January 2004

Professor Mohan Edirisinghe has been appointed as Editor of British Ceramic Transactions - The international journal of ceramic science and engineering. The editorial base of the journal will be in the Department from the 01st January 2004.The journal is over 100 years old and published by Maney on behalf of the … [more]