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The first NeuMat Winter School Event was held in Churchill College, Cambridge. The three day meeting had a packed schedule of lectures, workshops and practical sessions with a focus on AI hardware from leaders in academia, industry and policymakers.Key speakers at the event included:Professor Tony Kenyon (UCL)Professor Steve Furber (University of M…

Professor Judith Driscoll was being elected Fellow of the Royal Society – one of the UK’s most prestigious honours for scientific achievement. She is internationally renowned for her work on complex oxide thin films and interfaces. Her election to the Royal Society is a richly deserved honour that reflects not only her scientific achievements, but …

Prof Judith Driscoll was very happy to deliver this month the C. N. R. Rao Award Lecture at the 34th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry in IISER Bhopal, India and received the price for that. Please see here.

Many thanks to Markus for nominating Judith for a research culture award from the university. She is deeply grateful and flattered. She also realises that her whole group are what makes the group special and so enjoyable to work with! We are pleased that the VC spoke at the celebration event at Kettle's Yard. 

Di Martino Lab is awarded the LEAF bronze certificate in recognition of exemplary actions undertaken to improve the sustainability practices as part of the laboratory efficiency assessment framework (LEAF).

We are delighted, that Prof Sohini Kar-Narayan has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She joins 70 other leading figures in the field of engineering and technology this year. You can find out more information about Prof Kar-Narayan's research and the other elected fellows here:https://raeng.org.uk/news/royal-academy-of-en…

It is a great pleasure to see Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan and her team in the BBC news with their new hip replacement tool. If you want to read more, please see here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yp148wp78o

Prof. Judith Driscoll was being named one of 2024's Top 50 Women in Engineering by the Women's Engineering Society. This year's theme was "Enhanced by Engineering". Since Prof Driscoll could not attend, her daughter - who is an engineer herself - went to receive her price.Please check out here: https://www.wes.org.uk/we50-awards/we50-2024-enhanced-…

AIP Publishing is pleased to announce the appointment of Sohini Kar-Narayan, Professor of Device Materials at the University of Cambridge, as the inaugural editor-in-chief of APL Electronic Devices.Please check out the announcement here.

We had a summer pot-luck picnic of the Device Materials group, with so many lovely international dishes! Our visitors and all families participated for a fun evening. 

Sohini is the winner of the Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) award 2025. She has made outstanding contributions to the field of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) through her studies of nanoscale electromechanical properties of novel functional polymer and semiconducting nanostructures.Please read here: https://www.rms…

An interview was published, which appeared on a newspaper following Dr Giuliana Di Martino's Imperial Alumni Award called "Wow science - highs and lows of a life in physics".

Professor Judith Driscoll won the 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize for her interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices. Please check here: https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/2024-winners/professor-judith-driscoll#undefined

Prof Sohini Kar-Narayan has just won the Women Leaders in Electronics Award, category Innovator of the Year in recognition of her exceptional excellence, commitment and innovation in the industry! Well deserved Sohini and congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr Giuliana Di Martino on being awarded a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). She has now the opportunity to take on a leading role and will continue to act as an ambassador, supporting the IOP to promote the value of physics to society and to inspire others to study, work and excel in physics.