Royal Academy of Engineering Black History Month Lunch

As part of Black History Month, the Royal Academy of Engineering held a Leadership Lunch on this year’s theme "Celebrating our Sisters". Before the lunch Dr Nike Folayan MBE HonFREng, Technical Director at WSP and Chair and Co-Founder of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic … [more]

Queen Mary Professorial Strategic Hires

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is recruiting 10 full Professors to establish their research groups at the University. These permanent academic positions will further strengthen our rapidly expanding, world-leading research following an excellent performance in the latest UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) in which QMUL was ranked 7th in the … [more]

School celebrates student achievements at IMechE awards

This week, six BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering students were selected to present their final year projects at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards. Queen Mary's representation included four poster presentations and two oral presentations, given by Saskia Hale, Lujain Musafir, Haipeng Liang, … [more]

Professor Liz Tanner made an Honorary Member of the European Society for Biomaterials

Professor Liz Tanner has been elected an Honorary Member of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) at their conference in Davos Switzerland. According to the Statutes of the ESB "Honorary membership can be awarded to any person who has given the Society particularly meritorious services or who has … [more]

Sir Colin Humphreys appears on BBC Radio 4 "Life Scientific"

Sir Colin Humphreys appears on BBC Radio 4's "The Life Scientific"

On Tuesday 29th August Professor Sir Colin Humphreys was Professor Jim Al-Khalili's guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme "The Life Scientific". Colin discussed his work as a materials scientist and engineer, his use of electron microscopy and of course about his work on graphene, the world's … [more]

SEMS hosts visit from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

SEMS hosted a visit from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) on Monday 28th November. They were lead by the Assistant Cultural Attaché from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and by Professor AlKharoubi, KFUPM. The group were a total of 24 students and staff from … [more]

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia is awarded the Henry Clifton Sorby Award

The International Metallographic Society awarded Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia the Henry Clifton Sorby Award. It is awarded annually to an "internationally recognised figure for lifetime achievement in the fields of metallography and materials science". It is the highest honour presented by the International Metallographic Society and was presented … [more]

Dame Ann Dowling is awarded an honorary doctorate

During the Graduation Ceremonies at Tobacco Dock Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng was awarded a DSc(Hon Caus). Dame Ann is one of the most distinguished engineers in the UK. She was first female Professor in Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 1993 and is now … [more]

Materials Celebrates 50 Years of Graduations

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]

Juncheng Fan from Queen Mary Engineering School, Xi'an, comes third in IoM3 Young Person's World Lecture Competition

Juncheng Fan from QMES (Queen Mary Engineering School, Xi'an) came third in IoM3 Young Person's World Lecture Competition. The competition is run by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3) every year with students competing through regional and then national finals. Juncheng's presentation … [more]

Liz Tanner joins Discover Materials Advisory Board

The Discover Materials initative (https://www.discovermaterials.uk) is a collaboration of ten UK Materials Departments or Schools with the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials in Manchester. Discover Materials will formally launch in Summer 2021 and its aim is encourage more people to think about materials as a subject … [more]

Congratulations to Haixue Yan FIMMM

Today Haixue Yan from the Materials Division became a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMM). This honour is based on both his work in QMUL but also his time in industry in China before he became a PhD student. He joins six other members of … [more]

Liz Tanner becomes Editor in Chief of Journal of Engineering in Medicine.

From 1st July 2021, Prof Liz Tanner will take over as Editor in Chief of Journal of Engineering in Medicine, Part H of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.  Liz takes over from Professor Tony Unsworth FREng of Durham University has edited the journal for over 28 years … [more]

Liz Tanner elected Secretary of International College of Biomaterials Fellows

On Friday 4th December the new Council of the International College of Fellows in Biomaterials Science and Engineering meet. This Council will lead worldwide activity in Biomaterials for the next 4 years. Activities will include student exchanges, debates at congresses and supporting the run up to 2024 World Biomaterials Congress in South … [more]

James Busfield elected to Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the 50 new Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and 3 International Fellows. James Busfield, Professor of Materials, Director of Industrial Engagement in the School of Engineering and Material Science and Yang Hao (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) have been elected. … [more]

Gleb Sukhorukov's H-index reaches 100

One measure of the impact of an academic's research is to count the number of citations. Citations refect who thinks our work is of interest and worth referencing. One common measure of this is to use the h-index which is defined as the maximum value of h such that the … [more]

New date for World Biomaterials Congress 2020 announced

The World Biomaterials Congress with Liz Tanner as a member of the Executive Committee has been postponed from May to December 2020 due to Covid-19. The new dates are Thursday 11th December to Wednesday 16th December. The programme will be similar but there will be new events announced nearer the time. [more]

Planning Meeting for World Biomaterials Congress

On 3 and 4 December the Executive Committee, Liz Tanner, Lucy Di Silvio King's and Nicholas Dunne Dublin City University for the 2020 World Biomaterials Congress meet in Glasgow. We have received over 2,800 abstracts with spaces for 1,200 Oral presentations so have offered the remainder Poster Presentations. The e-mails should be sent before … [more]

Professor Wen Wang elected FREng

Professor Wen Wang has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering today. This is as: Wen Wang is distinguished for his insightful achievements in cardiovascular bioengineering, specifically in biofluid mechanics related to the molecular lining of blood vessels and the transport of fluid and solutes across the … [more]

Liz Tanner gives Lecture in Sichuan University

While in China to present the 11th World Biomaterials Congress 2020 to the Chinese Society for Biomaterials, Liz Tanner also visited Professor Zhang Xingdong (former Research Visitor to the Department of Materials) at Sichuan University and gave a lecture entitled "Composite Materials for Bone Augmentation". [more]

Liz Tanner talks to Valentines High School

As part of a day of talks for the first year A Level students at Valentines High School Gant's Hill, Liz Tanner talked about Materials and Biomaterials at university and beyond.

SEMS researchers demonstrate targeted drug delivery at TeenTech London

SEMS researchers demonstrated a working model of drug delivery using magnetic nanoparticles at a TeenTech event in The Emirates Stadium. The event was attended by several hundred of school children who had the opportunity to engage in hands-on activities. SEMS researchers used a mock circulatory system to demonstrate how drugs … [more]

Moresche Bartley wins the best MSc student Poster Award

Moresche Bartley won the best MSc student prize at the 2019 Industrial Liaison Forum in SEMS for her poster called, "An in vitro study of myocyte and fibroblast co-culture response to degraded Mg alloy". Her project is being supervised by Prof. Liz Tanner [more]

Liz talks at Bristol University Women in STEM event

On Tuesday 5th February Liz Tanner gave a talk in the Senate House at Bristol University to the student's Women in STEM society as part of the Women in Conversation week of talks. A lively discussion afterwards with enthusiastic students from first year undergraduates to PhD students. [more]

Liz Tanner attends Service to celebrate Year of Engineering

Liz Tanner was one of the 2000 guests at the ecumenical "National Service to Celebrate the Year of Engineering" held at Westminster Abbey. The address was given by Dame Anne Dowling OM DBDE FRS FREng President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. One of the lessons was read by … [more]

Liz Tanner Returns to QMUL

After just over 11 years at the University of Glasgow, Liz Tanner has returned to School of Engineering and Materials Science to become the first Bonfield Professor of Biomedical Materials. Liz's first job was as a post doc in Bill Bonfield's Biomaterials Group, before the foundation of the IRC … [more]