Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

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Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (DMSM)
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27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, new site of MSM since 2013
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Affiliations University of Cambridge
Website www.msm.cam.ac.uk

The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (DMSM) is a large research and teaching division of the University of Cambridge. Since 2013 it has been located in West Cambridge, having previously occupied several buildings on the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge.

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Following the changes to academic titles in 2021/2022 at the University of Cambridge, [1] 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

As of October 2022 Professorial staff include: [2]

  1. Serena Best, CBE, FREng, Professor of Materials Science
  2. Ruth Cameron, Professor of Materials Science
  3. Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science
  4. Judith Driscoll, FREng, Professor of Materials Science
  5. Caterina Ducati, Professor of Nanomaterials
  6. Rachel Evans, Professor of Materials Chemistry
  7. James Elliott, Professor of Macromolecular Materials Science
  8. Lindsay Greer, Professor of Materials Science
  9. Louise Hirst, Professor of Materials Physics (jointly appointed with the Cavendish Laboratory)
  10. Nick Jones, Professor of Metallurgy
  11. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Professor of Device & Energy Materials
  12. Neil Mathur, Professor of Materials Physics
  13. Paul Midgley, FRS, Professor of Materials Science (Current Head of Department)
  14. Rachel Oliver, FREng, Professor of Materials Science
  15. Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science
  16. Cathie Rae, Professor of Superalloys
  17. Emilie Ringe, Professor of Synthetic and Natural Nanomaterials (jointly appointed with the Department of Earth Sciences)
  18. Howard Stone, Professor of Metallurgy
  19. Jason WA Robinson, Professor of Materials Physics

Heads of Department

  1. R.S Hutton - 1944
  2. Wesley Austin 1945-1958
  3. Sir Alan Cottrell FRS 1958-1966
  4. Sir Robert Honeycombe FREng FRS 1966-84
  5. Derek Hull FREng FRS 1984-1991
  6. Sir Colin Humphreys, CBE FREng FRS 1991-1996
  7. Alan Windle FRS 1996-2000
  8. Derek Fray FRS FREng 2000-2005
  9. Alan Lindsay Greer 2005-2013
  10. Mark Blamire 2013-2018
  11. Paul Midgley FRS 2018-2020
  12. Ruth Cameron, James Elliott, and Jason Robinson 2020- (current) [3]

Research themes

Current research spans seven themes in which there are current materials challenges to overcome: [4]

  1. Aerospace materials
  2. Information Communication Technologies
  3. Innovative Characterisation
  4. Materials Discovery
  5. Materials for Energy and Sustainability
  6. Materials for Healthcare
  7. Novel Design and Processing

Research groups

Stair Case of Arup Tower, part of the former site of MSM, at the New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge. ArupTowerStaircase-NewMuseumsSite-UCambridge.jpg
Stair Case of Arup Tower, part of the former site of MSM, at the New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge.

Research is organised into the following groups. [5]

Spinout companies

Alumni and former staff

Notable alumni and former staff include:

See also

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