Physics Department News

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.

David Timms died on Friday 21st September aged 42, after a battle with cancer.  David came to Warwick as an undergraduate in 1982 and went on to a PhD and post doctoral work in Malcolm Cooper's Compton scattering group.  Since his move to Portsmouth University in 1990 he has retained his Warwick connection working with Malcolm Cooper and Jon Duffy at ESRF and Spring-9.  At Portsmouth he became a Reader in the School of Environmental and Earth Sciences and was distinguished for his radiation physics research at the Chernobyl site, not to mention his prowess as a deep sea fisherman.  He will be sadly missed.

Malcolm Cooper