Prof Joe Briscoe
MSci (Hons), PhD, FHEA, CSci, MIMMM, MInstP

Research Group News

December 2024

PhD Student Madsar Hameed presents research at prestigious conference in America 9 December 2024 SEMS PhD Student Madsar Hameed from Prof Joe Briscoe's group presented their research at the prestigious Materials Research Society Fall 2024 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Recognized as the premier international forum in the field of advanced materials, the conference provided an incredible platform to showcase cutting-edge innovations. Madsar shared their … [more]

Many SEMS Staff Recognised at the Annual Science and Engineering Faculty Celebration 3 December 2024 Several SEMS staff were recognised at the Annual Faculty of Science and Engineering Celebration on the 3rd December 2024. Congratulations to all of you for this wonderful recognition of the excellence of your work. The SEMS winners were: Matt Horsfield was awarded the “Outstanding Contribution to Professional Services Award” … [more]

October 2024

Green Energy Hub ready to drive innovation and sustainability 15 October 2024 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is proud to announce the official launch of its Green Energy Hub, including a new state-of-the-art laboratory alongside existing materials chemistry and testing labs designed to accelerate breakthroughs in green energy technologies. The new facility represents a significant investment of almost £3 million from … [more]

January 2024

Professor Joe Briscoe gives talk at Lightsource BP on perovskite solar cells 31 January 2024 Professor Joe Briscoe was invited to give a talk at Lightsource BP - a global leader in solar development, management and operations - to give his perspective on the exciting and fast-moving area of perovskite solar cells. Prof Briscoe gave an overview of the fundamentals, potential advantages, applications and challenges … [more]

November 2023

Award Winning Research Students in 2023 SEMS ILF Research Showcase 14 November 2023 At the recent SEMS research-led Industrial Liaison Forum, there was a showcase from 60 of our current PhD students. The panel of judges this year were made up a wide range of early career researchers (Dr Luis Murillo Herrera, Mr Eugenio Sebastian Suena Galindez, Dr Clemence Nadal, Dr Oliver Brookes and … [more]

February 2023

Celebrating Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London 14 February 2023 On 8 February, Queen Mary’s Faculty of Science and Engineering was joined by a host of distinguished guests to celebrate A Night of Science and Engineering. Professor Wen Wang, Vice-Principal and Executive Dean for Science and Engineering welcomed all with a speech about the Faculty’s ambitions, and … [more]

December 2022

Qinrong He passes her PhD viva! 15 December 2022 Congratulations to Qinrong He of Dr Joe Briscoe's group who passed her PhD viva on 15th December 2022! Thanks to internal examiner Dr Dimitrios Papageorgiou, and external examiner Dr Hamideh Khanbareh of the University of Bath. Qinrong's thesis was entitled "Design and development of fibre-based piezoelectric energy harvesters&… [more]

December 2021

Scientists create stable materials for more efficient solar cells 15 December 2021 Crystalline silicon is the most widely used material for solar cells. However, over the last decade, perovskite solar cells, made from metal halide perovskite materials, have shown promise to make cheaper, and potentially more efficient solar cells than silicon. But whilst perovskite solar cells can now compete in terms of … [more]

Lokeshwari Mohan passed PhD viva 13 December 2021 Congratulations to Lokeshwari (Lucky) Mohan, who passed her PhD viva on 13th December! Lucky was co-supervised by Prof Martyn McLachlan of Imperial College and Dr Joe Briscoe on the Plastic Electronics CDT. Lucky's thesis was titled "Copper(I) thiocyanate deposited via aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition for use in … [more]

November 2021

Materials Celebrates 50 Years of Graduations 15 November 2021 50 years of Materials graduates from the Mile End Campus in London and the first cohort from Queen Mary Engineering School (QMES) at our campus at Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi’an China were celebrated on Friday 5th November. 120 people gathered in the Octagon with another 45 people on-line to … [more]

Dr Joe Briscoe contributes to COP26 special edition of Queen Mary's Energy and Climate Change Law Institute Review 1 November 2021 The Energy & Climate Change Law Institute at Queen Mary University of London are delighted to publish its law review focused on COP 26. With a foreword by Lord Carnwath CVO and introduction by guest editor Professor Stephen Tromans QC, the review takes a fresh look at what … [more]

April 2021

Industrial Liaison Forum #4 Prize Winners Announced 21 April 2021 The fourth Industrial Liaison Forum (ILF#4) took place online on 21 April 2021. ILF#4 was the 3rd year undergraduate Project Showcase. We had invited 35 students to present their project posters. The event attended by more than 170 visitors at the peak including several of our Industrial Advisory Board Members, potential new students and … [more]

March 2021

New high-performance and durable textile-based wearable energy harvesters reported 5 March 2021 New research published by Qinrong He from Dr Joe Briscoe's group, in collaboration with Dr Han Zhang, demonstrates piezoelectric energy harvesters produced on e-textiles that can harvest energy from body movement to power portable electronic devices and sensors. The research, published in the journal Nano Energy, makes use of … [more]

February 2021

Researchers demonstrate a new method for scalable deposition of hybrid perovskites for solar cells 5 February 2021 A new paper by Ryley Ratnasingham, supervised by Dr Joe Briscoe (SEMS, QMUL) and Prof Martyn McLachlan (Imperial College London) as part of the Plastic Electronics CDT has been published in Materials Advances, which reports the first ever working perovskite solar cell (PSC) using a hybrid perovskite material deposited by … [more]

EPSRC New Horizons grant on 3D photoelectrochemical imaging 1 February 2021 Prof Steffi Krause, Dr Joe Biscoe, Dr Thomas Iskratsch and Dr Bo Zhou have been awarded an EPSRC New Horizon’s grant (EP/V047523/1) of £200k to develop new measurement technology for 3D photoelectrochemical imaging. Electrochemical imaging techniques are powerful tools for the investigation of topography, charge and … [more]

December 2020

Queen Mary researcher receives €2 million grant to develop more efficient solar technology 17 December 2020 For this project Dr Briscoe will explore how a type of material known as ferroelectrics could be used to produce a new class of solar energy device that could break current efficiency barriers. The ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to outstanding researchers with between 7-12 years of experience after PhD, … [more]

Dr Joe Briscoe Receives Prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant 9 December 2020 Dr Joe Briscoe, a Senior Lecturer in Functional Materials in SEMS, QMUL, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the 'excellent science' pillar of the EU's current Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020. Dr Briscoe is one of only 327 individuals across Europe to … [more]

October 2020

Scientists develop ammonia gas sensor based on a zinc oxide nanorod-gold Schottky diode 9 October 2020 Ying Tu's paper describing a novel room temperature sensor for ammonia has been accepted by ACS Sensors. As ammonia is gaining importance in the production and storage of hydrogen, there is an increasing demand for energy-efficient ammonia detectors. The device described in this paper boasts low power consumption, good … [more]

April 2020

Queen Mary secure new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships to support industry engagement 17 April 2020 The new KTPs, which represent funding of over £500,000, will support engineering projects aimed at developing new biomaterials for bone healthcare treatments, and novel woven colour-changing fabrics for clothing.   Improving bone healthcare treatments Working with Lucideon, who are a leading organisation in materials development and commercialisation, Queen Mary will develop new … [more]

March 2020

Double Success with KTP Grants Awarded 11 March 2020 SEMS has secured two new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTPs) grants this month. This success represents a total of about £500K in grant funding and a doubling of SEMS portfolio to a total of 4 live KTP projects. This is all of the live KTP projects running at QMUL currently. The … [more]

August 2019

Dr Joe Briscoe gave an invited talk at the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford on perovskite photovoltaics 20 August 2019 Dr Joe Briscoe visited the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford to see their work on perovskite photovoltaics and delivered a talk on his research into scalable deposition and treatment of perovskite PVs using aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD). [more]

July 2019

Queen Mary continues to support the rebuilding of higher education in Syria 30 July 2019 Queen Mary University of London has hosted a Syrian academic in exile, consolidating its support for academics at risk and the rebuilding of higher education in Syria. Queen Mary is among a number of British universities engaged in the Syria Programme launched by the Council for At Risk Academics (Cara) … [more]

November 2018

Congratulations to Yaqiong Wang 28 November 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Yaqiong Wang who successfully completed her PhD viva on Monday 27 Nov 2018, with thesis entitled 'Effect of Polar Structure on Photocatalytic Properties of Oxide Powders and Films'. She was supervised by Haixue Yan, Steve Dunn and Joe Briscoe. [more]

October 2018

Congratulations to Ying Tu 24 October 2018 Congratulations to Ying Tu who passed his PhD viva on Wednesday 24th October 2018. Ying did his PhD on the "Investigation of ZnO nanorods as chemical and biological sensors" under the supervision of Steffi Krause and Joe Briscoe. [more]

March 2018

Queen Mary researcher helps develop rollercoaster which charges your phone 28 March 2018 A researcher from Queen Mary University of London has used his expertise in energy harvesting applications to help develop a rollercoaster which charges your phone. Dr Joe Briscoe, from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, was approached by Thorpe Park Resort to work on their latest ride ‘The Walking … [more]

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