Physics Department News

EPSRC have just announced a grant of £3.7M to our NMR group for 'A world-leading UK NMR facility'.  The consortium is led by Steven Brown and, as well as Mark Smith and Ray Dupree here at Warwick, there are 5 co-applicants from other universities.  The grant will provide a 850MHz NMR spectometer which will be housed in the Magnetic Resonance Centre in Millburn House.

This grant brings our curent EPSRC portfolio to just under £25M. Only three Physics departments in the UK have larger EPSRC portfolios.

Many congratulations to Steven Brown, Ray Dupree and Mark Smith.

If you would like to read the full press release, please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/even_oxygen_to/.

Val Nakariakov's PhD student, David Pascoe, won the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science's Postdoctoral Fellowship for North American and European Researchers.

Researchers at the University of Warwick and Astra Zeneca have found a new way to use solid-state NMR equipment to crack the secrets of hydrogen atoms and thus spot unwanted polymorphs in pharmaceuticals.

If you would like to read the full press release, please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/nmr_researchers_unlock/

The Department welcomes three new Assistant Professors who start at the beginning of the Autumn Term.

Marzena Szymanska, an expert in Bose-Einstein Condensates who joins us from Cambridge.

Rachel Edwards, already a member of the Department's Ultrasound group, who will be developing both pure and applied research with ultrasonics.

Neil Wilson, who makes the short journey from the Chemistry Department to establish independent work on single wall carbon nanotubes.