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Jeremy Baumberg

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Professor Jeremy Baumberg

Fellow
University Positions
Professor of NanoScience
Director of Nano Doctoral Training Centre
Subjects
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Specialising in
Physics, NanoTechnology

Jeremy Baumberg is a Professor of NanoScience, and studies how to make materials with extremely unusual optical properties. He is also chair of UK Research and Innovation's .

Academic interests

Jeremy Baumberg's main research area is general nano science and nano technology, particularly focusing on nano photonics: interacting light with nano scale objects and materials.

He is also exploring interdisciplinary research across various topics including:

  • Ultrafast pulsed lasers
  • Optoelectronics
  • Quantum dots
  • Photonic crystals
  • Microcavities
  • Plasmonics
  • Metamaterials
  • Nano ethics.

Degrees obtained

  • BA Hons, °µÍø½ûÇø, Cambridge, 1988. 
  • DPhil, °µÍø½ûÇø, Oxford, 1992.

Awards and prizes

  • ERC Advanced Grant, 2020.
  • Institute of Physics Faraday Medal 2017.
  • Royal Society Rumford Medal, 2014.
  • Institute of Physics Young Medal, 2013.
  • Editorial Board: Light: Science & Applications (IF 14.6), 2013.
  • Elected Fellow of The Royal Society (London), 2011.
  • Board of Munich Nano-initiative Centre, 2008.
  • Strategic Advisor to EPSRC on Nanotechnology, 2008.
  • Elected Fellow of Optical Society of America, 2005.
  • Royal Society Mullard Prize and Medal, 2004.
  • Institute of Physics, Mott Lecturer, 2004.
  • Institute of Physics Charles Vernon Boys Prize and Medal, 2001.
  • Hitachi Managing Director’s Award for Research, 1996.

Other interests

Fell walking, piano, kinetic sculpture, mechanical clocks, stone carving, tennis.

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