News
December 2007 | ||
 ApaTech wins Times HES Award7 December 2007Queen Mary spin out company, ApaTech Ltd, won the ‘Business Initiative of the Year’ award at this year’s Times Higher Education Supplement awards. ApaTech aims to improve the quality of medical procedures with its synthetic bone substitute, ApaPore. The product is a practical application of research from the Interdisciplinary … [more] | ||
November 2007 | ||
 Hazel Screen is awarded CEng status29 November 2007Hazel Screen has recently been elected as a professional Member of both the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and has been awarded registration as a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council (UK). [more] | ||
Congratulations to Sylvia Huebbe-Walker on the birth of her twins26 November 2007The school would like to offer its warmest congratulations to Sylvia who gave birth to twins, both a son and a daughter, on the 23rd November 2007. Mother and babies are all doing very well. | ||
Congratulations to Ms Wei Li16 November 2007Congratulations to Ms Wei Li passed her PhD examination on 16 November 2007. Wei Li worked with Wen Wang and Dan Bader on oxygen and glucose consumption in different cell culture constructs. She has now taken up a position as a Research Assistant. [more] | ||
Double Awards in Plastic Electronics14 November 2007Recent efforts in strengthening activities in the “Plastic Electronics” area have been rewarded in the Technology Programme Spring 2007competition of the Technology Strategy Board, formerly known as DTI, and in a FP-7 Large-Scale Integrating Network: DECAF: Delivering Electronic Components with Aligned Layers by Foil Stamping ONE-P: Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics … [more] | ||
 The Melon Bungee Challenge12 November 2007All the new undergraduate students in Materials (Foundation, 1st, 2nd and 3rd year entry) joined the 2nd year undergraduates in a fun Problem Based Learning (PBL) activity in Week 7 this semester. This PBL was championed by James Busfield and assisted by Nigel d’Mello. All the students where split into 18 … [more] | ||
October 2007 | ||
 Professor Paul Hogg Presented with "Leslie Holiday" Prize30 October 2007Professor Paul Hogg receives the Institute of Materials Mineral and mining "Leslie Holliday" Prize for contributions to Composite Materials from Richard Dolby, President of the Institute. The Prize was awarded at the Institute’s annual Premier Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 24th October 2007. [more] | ||
Success in the Technology Programme Spring 2007 Competition25 October 2007A project, called SMART-HIP: Smart bioactive nanocomposite coatings for enhanced hip prostheses, in association with TecVac, Corin, Imperial College and Sheffield University has been awarded to Professor Julia Shelton. It was submitted in the Technology Strategy Board (formerly know as the DTI) Technology Programme Spring 2007 competition, within the Technology Priority … [more] | ||
Sugden Prize23 October 2007Prof Chris Lawn and his former PhD student, Vivek Savarianandam, have been awarded the Sugden prize by the Combustion Institute for their paper 'Burning velocity of premixed turbulent flames in the weakly wrinkled regime'. The prize is for the most significant contribution to combustion research by a member of the … [more] | ||
Interdisciplinary Bridging the Gaps18 October 2007Dr John Cater from SEMS has been awarded an EPSRC Grant entitled "Building a New Community: Modelling, Visualisation and Verification of Large Scale Systems". To create a truly interdisciplinary approach to modelling complex systems, researchers from the departments of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences have been brought … [more] | ||
 Visit from Rolls-Royce18 October 2007Dr Paul Strange from Rolls-Royce visited Dr John Cater on 18 October 2007 to see the newly commissioned Acoustic Jet Facility. | ||
 Prof. John Stark visits China16 October 2007At a ceremony in Beijing, John Stark was conferred the title of Guest Professor at Beihang University – also known as BUAA – Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The appointment is in formally within the School of Astronautics, in the Department of Space Propulsion. Students from Beihang have been studying at … [more] | ||
 Queen Mary spin-out company in Britain's top 20 fastest growing private technology companies3 October 2007Developed from the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials at QMUL's Department of Materials, ApaTech is an excellent example of how innovative technology from a UK university can be developed and commercialised on a global scale. The spin-out company has been ranked as Britain's 13th fastest growing private technology company … [more] | ||
Latest Research Grant Awards2 October 2007During the month of August, for which data has just been released, the School of Engineering and Materials Science has been awarded £980k in research grants. The three largest individual grants go to Professor Asim Ray (£175k - DTI) Dr Donsheng Wen (~£210k - EPSRC) and Professor John Stark (£135k – … [more] | ||
September 2007 | ||
 Alice marries Thomas30 September 2007Colleagues in materials would like to congratulate Alice and Thomas Dowden on their recent marriage. It is rare that we are able to congratulate current students on their marriage to each other. They met for the first time during induction only 2 years ago. We hope that their marriage is always … [more] | ||
Three New Appointments Announced in Materials13 September 2007The School of Engineering and Materials has made three new staff appointments to enhance the materials research activities. Cees Bastiaansen will join us in October as a Professor from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Cees started his career at DSM in The Netherlands where he was a project … [more] | ||
August 2007 | ||
 Paul Hogg marries Faye Smith26 August 2007Congratulations to Paul Hogg and Faye on their recent wedding. Paul finally tied the knot on 22nd August. We wish them all the best for their future happiness together. | ||
 SEMS at the 21st World Scouting Jamboree16 August 2007The School of Engineering and Materials Science was invited to contribute at prestigious event involving 40,000 young people from around the world; the 21st World Scouting Jamboree. The event was held for 12 days between the 27th of July and the 8th of August, in Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and formed a part … [more] | ||
Available PhD studentships in mechanics of bone at the nano-scale16 August 2007A number of PhD studentships are available for studies in the area of nano-mechanics of bone within the Department of Materials and allied cross-departmental Centre of Materials Research. The Department of Materials has a long tradition of world class research in biomaterials and is currently in the process of investing … [more] | ||
July 2007 | ||
 Promotion for Karin Hing12 July 2007We are delighted to announce that Karin Hing has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in this year's promotion round. Karin's promotion reflects her efforts at delivering new courses and her excellent research profile over the last few years. [more] | ||
 Shoufeng Yang's Science Exhibition at the Royal Society7 July 2007Each year the Royal Society runs a Public Science Exhibition. This year for the first time the Department was invited to contribute an exhibit. The theme of the exhibit was based on Shoufeng Yang's research work on sand painting using sound as the mechanism for controlling the deposition of sand … [more] | ||
June 2007 | ||
Materials Awards14 June 2007During the period of February 2007 and April 2007, members of Materials academic staff have been awarded several grants totalling over £1.2 million for research work. These awards range from research in "Bone and Teeth as Fibrous Biological Composites", to "Frictional Properties of Tyre Compounds". [more] | ||
April 2007 | ||
 Holliday (Lesley Holliday) Prize2 April 2007Professor Paul Hogg has received the Holliday Prize from the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining. This award is in recognition of significant or technological contributions relating to any type of composite materials. [more] | ||
Department Awards2 April 2007During the period of November 2006 to January 2007, members of Materials academic staff have been awarded several grants totalling over £1.5 million. | ||
March 2007 | ||
 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition30 March 2007Materials science in QMUL will be strongly represented at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, a four day event which gives thousands of visitors an opportunity to meet and talk to researchers. This is the first time the Department has been invited. The exhibition is the Society's most prestigious … [more] | ||
Renewed Success: Intercollegiate Platform on Powder-Based Processing and Modelling30 March 2007A QMUL-UCL Intercollegiate Platform Grant (ICP) on Powder-Based Processing & Modelling has been awarded by the EPSRC, spanning the period 2007-2011, as recognition of first-class research in the subject area. Powder-based Processing and Modelling is an enabling fundamental research theme in Advanced Materials, encompassing nanotechnologies, energy, electronics and biotechnologies. The project … [more] | ||
 Continuous Hydrothermal Syntheses of Nanomaterials: From Lab to Pilot Plant26 March 2007Dr Jawwad A. Darr (UCL Chemistry Department) and colleagues at QMUL (I. Rehman and S. Yang of the Materials Dept) and academics at Leeds University, respectively, have been awarded yet another large EPSRC consortium grant worth ca. 1 million pounds [ref EP/E040551 and EP/E040624/1]. The project seeks to develop … [more] | ||
 Dr Barber publishes in the prestigious Applied Scanning Probe Methods series12 March 2007Dr Asa H. Barber was recently invited to contribute to the book ‘Applied Scanning Probe Methods’, which has now been published by Springer. The series has constantly published state-of-the-art research using scanning probe microscopy and this recent addition to the series, focussing on characterization methods, has attracted contributions from leaders … [more] | ||
Announcement of New Research Grant12 March 2007Congratulations to Prof Gleb Sukhorukov who has recently received confirmed of a research grant from British Council. Total awarded is for £28,000. | ||
 Dr Barber receives his first EPSRC grant12 March 2007Dr Asa H Barber has recently received a three year EPSRC grant for nanomechanical investigations of biomaterials. Dr Barber is a new appointment within the Department of Materials and the grant will provide considerable infrastructure to support Dr Barber’s research interests as well as underpin the general investment made … [more] | ||
February 2007 | ||
Joost's Research Published in PLoS Medicine Journal20 February 2007Professor Joost de Bruijn, from the Department of Materials, is part of a research team focusing on bone tissue regeneration that has had a paper published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) on-line medical journal. The paper entitled 'Cell-Based Bone Tissue Engineering' and is coauthored by Gert J. Meijer, … [more] | ||
Further DTI support for representation on International Energy Agency - Task 2216 February 2007The Department of Trade and Industry has recently extended its financial support for our continued representation as one of the UK experts on the Task 22 Hydrogen Storage activities of the International Energy Agency. Hydrogen, as a clean energy vector, continues to receive focussed attention worldwide. Hydrogen storage is the bottleneck … [more] | ||
 New Research Assistants in the School of Engineering and Materials6 February 2007Two new Research Assistants have started within the new School of Engineering and Materials Science within the last month. Alan Leong took up the new post on 15 January 2007 and will be working on a research project under the supervision of Professor Paul Hogg. This project is funded under EPSRC’s … [more] | ||