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Metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the ...

(DMSM) is a large research and teaching division of the

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, having previously occupied several buildings on the New Museums Site in the centre of

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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
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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, Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy # Jason WA Robinson, Professor of Materials Physics

Heads of Department

# R.S Hutton - 1944 # Wesley Austin 1945-1958 # Sir Alan Cottrell FRS 1958-1966 # Sir Robert Honeycombe FREng FRS 1966-84 # Derek Hull FREng FRS 1984-1991 # Sir

Colin Humphreys Sir Colin John Humphreys (born 24 May 1941) is a British physicist and a hobbyist Bible scholar. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is the former Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the Un ...

, CBE FREng FRS 1991-1996 #

Alan Windle Alan Hardwick Windle (born 20 June 1942) FRS is a British material scientist, and Chair of Materials Science at Cambridge University. He earned a BSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in ma ...

FRS 1996-2000 # Derek Fray FRS FREng 2000-2005 # Alan Lindsay Greer 2005-2013 # Mark Blamire 2013-2018 # Paul Midgley FRS 2018-2020 # Ruth Cameron, James Elliott, and 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

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Research is organised into the following groups.
Device Materials Group

Electron Microscopy Group

Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride

Hybrid Materials Group

Macromolecular Materials Laboratory

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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br>University Technology Centre in Advanced Materials

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. 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, FRS, * Robert W. Cahn FRS, * Robert Honeycombe * Derek Fray FRS FREng * Sir

, CBE FREng FRS *

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 ...

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References

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