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The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (DMSM) is a large research and teaching division of the
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. Following the changes to academic titles in 2021/2022 at the University of Cambridge, the academic staff of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy no longer use the academic titles of Reader and Lecturer. The list below reflects the new academic titles.


Academic staff

Professorial staff include:People in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge #
Serena Best Serena Michelle Best , is a British academic, and the Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. Best has a BSc from the University of Surrey, and a PhD from the University of London. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academ ...
, CBE, FREng, Professor of Materials Science # Ruth Cameron, Professor of Materials Science # Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science # Judith Driscoll, FREng, Professor of Materials Science # Caterina Ducati, Professor of Nanomaterials # Rachel Evans, Professor of Materials Chemistry # James Elliott, Professor of Macromolecular Materials Science # Lindsay Greer, Professor of Materials Science # Louise Hirst, Professor of Materials Physics (jointly appointed with the Cavendish Laboratory) # Nick Jones, Professor of Metallurgy # Sohini Kar-Narayan, Professor of Device & Energy Materials # Neil Mathur, Professor of Materials Physics # Paul Midgley, FRS, Professor of Materials Science (Current Head of Department) # Rachel Oliver, FREng, Professor of Materials Science # Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science # Cathie Rae, Professor of Superalloys # Emilie Ringe, Professor of Synthetic and Natural Nanomaterials (jointly appointed with the Department of Earth Sciences) # Howard Stone, Professor of Metallurgy # Jason WA Robinson, Professor of Materials Physics Assistant and Associate Professorial staff include:People in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge # Thomas D Bennett, Assistant Professor # Giuliana di Martino, Assistant Professor # Bartomeu Monserrat, Assistant Professor, Gianna Angelopoulos Lecturer in Computational Materials Science # Xavier Moya, Assistant Professor Staff dedicated to teaching include:People in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge # Jess Gwynne, Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Teaching # Rob Thompson, Teaching Associate


Heads of Department

# Professor R.S Hutton -1944 # Professor Wesley Austin 1945-1958 # Professor Sir
Alan Cottrell Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English metallurgist and physicist. He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979. Early ...
FRS 1958-1966 # Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe FREng FRS 1966-84 # Professor Derek Hull FREng FRS 1984-1991 # Professor Sir
Colin Humphreys Sir Colin John Humphreys, (born 24 May 1941) is a British physicist. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is the former Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and the ...
, CBE FREng FRS 1991-1996 # Professor Alan Windle FRS 1996-2000 # Professor
Derek Fray Derek John Fray (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge. Education Fray was educated at Emanuel School, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial Coll ...
FRS FREng 2000-2005 # Professor Alan Lindsay Greer 2005-2013 # Professor Mark Blamire 2013-2018 # Professor Paul Midgley FRS 2018-2020 # Professor Ruth Cameron, Professor James Elliott, and Professor Jason Robinson 2020- (current)


Research Themes

Current research spans seven themes in which there are current materials challenges to overcome: # Aerospace materials # Information Communication Technologies # Innovative Characterisation # Materials Discovery # Materials for Energy and Sustainability # Materials for Healthcare # Novel Design and Processing


Research Groups

Research is organised into the following groups.
Device Materials Group

Electron Microscopy Group

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Hybrid Materials Group



Centre for Materials Physics

Materials Theory Group

Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials

Microstructural Kinetics Group

Optical Nanomaterials Group

Photoactive Materials Group
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Space Voltaics Group


Spinout Companies

* 2019 - Barocal Ltd - developing new heating and cooling technologies to satisfy low-carbon requirements * 2018 - Plastometrex Ltd - Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry (PIP) - a revolutionary new approach to the mechanical testing of metals * 2018 - Porotech - specialising in the development of Gallium Nitride material technology * 2015 - Paragraf Ltd - novel deposition of graphene onto semiconductors * 2010 - CamGaN (now part of Plessey) - GaN on Silicon LED technology (low cost, low energy lighting) * 2007 - Inotec AMD - innovative topical oxygen therapy for wound healing * 2004 - Q-flo (merged with Plasan, CNT fibres now commercialised by Tortech) - ultra-long CNT fibres * 2004 - Camfridge - energy-efficient and gas-free magnetic cooling * 2001 - Metalysis - commercialisation of the
FFC Cambridge Process The FFC Cambridge process is an electrochemical method for producing Titanium (Ti) from titanium oxide by electrolysis in molten calcium salts. History A process for electrochemical production of titanium was described in a 1904 German patent. In ...
. Reduction of metal oxides and ores into pure metals and alloys * 1989 - CMD Ltd (became part of Accelerys, now part of Biovia Dassault Systems) - X-ray modelling software


Alumni and former staff

Notable alumni and former staff include: * Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng *
Alan Cottrell Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English metallurgist and physicist. He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979. Early ...
, FRS, * Robert W. Cahn FRS, * Robert Honeycombe *
Derek Fray Derek John Fray (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge. Education Fray was educated at Emanuel School, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial Coll ...
FRS FREng * Sir
Colin Humphreys Sir Colin John Humphreys, (born 24 May 1941) is a British physicist. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is the former Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and the ...
, CBE FREng FRS * Alan Windle FRS * Charles Heycock FRS * Sir
Graeme Davies Sir Graeme John Davies (7 April 1937 – 30 August 2022) was a New Zealand engineer, academic and administrator. During his career, he was Vice-Chancellor of three universities: the University of Liverpool, the University of Glasgow and the ...
FREng * William Bonfield CBE FRS FREng * Michael F. Ashby CBE FRS FREng *
Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge (born 11 July 1954) is a British engineer and a crossbench member of the House of Lords, where she chairs the Select Committee on Science and Technology. She is the incumbent chair of the Car ...
DBE FREng


See also

* DoITPoMS *
Department of Materials, University of Oxford The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the ''Department of Metallurgy'', by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry. It is part of the universi ...
* Department of Materials, Imperial College London


References

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