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📢 We’re hiring: Associate Professor or Professor of Materials, in association with Queen’s College.
📅 Closing date: 12 noon, Wednesday 15 April 2026
If you'd like to join us, further information and a link to the application process are below 👇
https://shorturl.at/Zd53W
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📣 Internal event for Oxford University people: 'AI for Materials - From Tools to Autonomous Capability'.
👉 Sign up online (SSO required): forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx
🕛/🗓️ 1-5pm, 23 April.
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Happy Dance! 🎉🎉🎉
James McQueen of this department has won two heats of the IoM3 Young Person's Lecture Competition, and will now go on to the National Final in London on 21 May!
Congratulations, James- and good luck!
www.iom3.org/events-awards/competitio...
What a load of old junk!
Consider this - we have space litter speeding around our planet at 20 to 30 times faster than a bullet!
Dr Yige Sun champions the case for life-cycle thinking:
A great initiative! It reminds us of Clara Barker's BSL demonstration for the words 'physical environment': www.signbsl.com/sign/physica...
This promises to be a fascinating talk by Yuxuan (in the very friendly and welcoming @radcliffescilib.bsky.social): we heartily recommend it!
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We also have PhD scholarships available for UK citizens to work with us as the UCL Plastic Waste Hub. You get to hang out at Institute of Making too which is like enhancing. More info on our general vibe here: UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub - Institute of Making share.google/Y2C03GiZgkMO...
🎉 Meet Dr Clara Barker, a shining star in the LGBTQ+ science community 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️: www.itv.com/watch/news/lgbtq-history...
Q: How was the train in the film powered?
A: https://www.cfas.ox.ac.uk/.
#Superconductivity #CleanEnergy
How can you make solar panels even better, and more sustainable? 🍃🌞💡
Visit: materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/bn-flakes-on-mwc... for an exciting new paper by Northumbria, Oxford, Warwick and Birmingham.
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Do you want your laptop and mobile/cell batteries to charge quicker and last longer? 💻📱
Nextrode Project Faraday Institution researchers in this department have made a breakthrough towards making this a reality: www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/pioneering-techn...
An exciting day!
#ITVMeridian News visited Dr Clara Barker in her CfAS* lab to film a demonstration on the science which is real-life magic: superconductivity! Keep watching Meridian News to find out more!
#MPLS #OxfordUniversity
(Image by Kara Digby).
*https://www.cfas.ox.ac.uk/
‘We have a world-leading research base...but we’re about to throw it away.’
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social's Prof Chris Lintott responds to plans to cut University funding for astronomy and physics ⬇️
'The decisions we take now will influence the data we create for future generations of scientists.'
Dr Heloise Stevance, from @oxfordphysics.bsky.social, discusses the ethics of delegating scientific decision-making to computers ⬇️
The Nanomaterials by Design group at Oxford has taken a deep dive into understanding how confined nanowires form.
Visit our webpage to read more:
Our new Thermo Scientific Apreo 2 Scanning Electron Microscope, jointly operated with @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social, is now on-line! The instrument was unveiled today by Prof Jim Naismith, Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
@mplsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
The new Thermo Scientific Apreo 2 Scanning Electron Microscope was unveiled this week by Professor Jim Naismith, Head of Division, and will be jointly operated by @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social and @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social.
Quantum computing sounds mysterious, but it doesn’t have to be. Join physicist William Cutler as he demystifies this technology and its potential for medicine and security.
🎙️Listen to the podcast now: www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/what-is-quantum...
Professor Robert House is an inaugural Green Future Fellow, who will use nanoengineering to develop a new battery that is 4 times more energy dense than current lithium-ion batteries
Read more: www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/rob-house-first-...
@raeng.org.uk
This is excellent news! Congratulations to Angus on this very well deserved recognition by @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social.
@mplsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
#electronmicroscopy
Two separate images: in the first Nicole Mitchell is explaining her poster to a man, and in the second Nicole Mitchell is on stage with a female official from IBA, as part of the ceremony involved when receiving her award.
Congratulations to Nicole Mitchell on winning a Best Poster Award at this year's International Battery Materials Conference (IBA) in Singapore.
Nicole's award-winning poster was titled: 'Influence of Ion Size on Structure and Redox Chemistry in Na-Rich and Li-Rich Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes'.
Congratulations to Prof Rob Weatherup on the award of an ERC Consolidator grant for his OPERATE project.
Read more on our website: materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rob-weatherup-an...
#Operando #ERCCoG
A very cool video about the very cool Saiful Islam @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social @mplsoxford.bsky.social
Come and study science at Oxford!
Applications for graduate study are open across all the scientific subjects - watch this great new film: https://youtu.be/BzvQF6MTDn8.
Looking specifically at Materials? Holly & Justin talk about what it's like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYk-WMc30U
🎓 Applications are open for the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social & @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social!
Among many exciting topics, have a look at our projects P10 and P13, both combining MLIPs and #compchem with close experimental collaborations: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
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Ready for a UK-wide competition that puts your students’ problem-solving to the test?
Registration for the UK #ChemistryOlympiad 2026 closes 14 January. Don’t let your students miss out on the excitement.
Sign up your school (it’s free) ➡️ https://rsc.li/43d6Bhc #EduSky #ChemSky
Calling all @ox.ac.uk folk interested in knowing more about policy outputs, come join me at this hands-on workshop next week!
If you're working on any UK Government missions, consider joining us here in the Department of Materials as an OPEN Visiting Fellow.
Our portfolio covers sustainable energy, quantum technologies, structural alloys for nuclear and aerospace environments, and biomaterials.
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Oxford's Open Policy Engagement Network Visiting Fellowship scheme is seeking expressions of interest for this opportunity to collaborate with researchers regarding policy challenges.
Find out more, including how to apply, on the University's website: www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
View of the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
External view of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
View of the dome in the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
View of the Sohmen Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and Humanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨
A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026.
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