We bid farewell to Dr Kathrin Gotze who has completed her ERC post-doc working with Paul Goddard and leaves to start work as accelerator scientist at the synchrotron - DESY in Hamburg.

We bid farewell to Monica Ciomaga Hatnean who is leaving the group after 8 years to take up new a role at the ETH in Zurich. We wish Monica and her partner Christian all the best for their new life together in Switzerland.

Congratulations to Marta Crisanti who has completed her doctorate. Marta ’s work was supervised by Don Paul, Robert Cubitt, latterly with a little help from Oleg Petrenko. Marta has used SANS to study skyrmions and spent the last three years of her PhD based In Grenoble at the ILL.

The group welcomes three a new PhD students.

Manisha Islam who joins us from University of York and will work with Oleg Petrenko, Shroya Vaidya who completed a MPhys degree here at the University of Warwick and is supervised by Paul Goddard, and George Wood, who is working with Geetha Balakrishnan after completing his first degree at the University of Bristol.

The group went for a meal in Leamington Spa to wish farewell to Dr Santosh Kumar. Santosh has completed his 4 year post-doc working as part of the PRETAMAG project.

Santosh has returned to India and is currently working at the TIFR Mubai as a Visiting Research Fellow before taking up a post as an Assistant Professor at IIT Dharwad.

We bid farewell to Dr Robert Williams who has completed his post-doc working with Paul Godard and leaves to start training as a Medical Physicist at the University of Edinburgh. We also say auf wiedersehen und viel glück to Dr Ales Stefancic, who leaves us after completing his post-doc with Geetha Balakrishnan to take up new a role as a Research Fellow at PSI.

Congratulations to Dan Mayoh who has completed his doctorate. Dan’s work was supervised by Martin Lees and involved in-house measurements, and muon spectroscopy and neutron scattering experiments performed at ISIS, studying the properties of some novel noncentrosymmetric superconductors.

Dan's thesis, Experimental Studies of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors can be downloaded from his web page.

The group welcomes Dr Matthew Coak. Matt joins the group having completed a PhD at Cambridge supervised by Dr Siddharth Saxena and and a first postdoctoral position in the Emergent Phenomena Group of the IBS Centre for Correlated Electron Systems at Seoul National University, under Prof Je-Geun Park. Matt will work with Dr Paul Goddard studying the properties of quantum systems at low-temperature, and under high pressure and magnetic field.

Congratulations to Will Blackmore on successfully defending his PhD thesis. His work was supervised by Paul Goddard.

Will's thesis entitled Ground states in low-dimensional quantum magnets can be downloaded from WRAP here.

The Group welcomes Amelia Hall, a new PhD student. Amelia, who joins us from York, will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan on skyrmionic materials.

Congratulations to Jamie Brambleby on successfully defending his PhD thesis. His work was supervised by Paul Goddard.

Jamie's thesis is entitled Quantum magnetism in coordination polymers. The thesis can be downloaded from WRAP here.

It's goodbye and good luck to Ali Julian our Group Technician, who is leaving Warwick University to return to his family business in Cornwall. Everyone in the Group would like to thank Ali for all his hard work over the last three years and to wish him and the Julian family every success for their new life in Cornwall.

The Group welcomes 3 new PhD students, Sam Holt, Bethany Hampshire, and Sam Curley. Sam Holt will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan on Skyrmionic materials. Beth will be working under the joint supervision of Don Paul (Warwick) and Aidy Hillier (ISIS-RAL) on the use of negative muons, studying at Warwick and at ISIS. Sam Curley will be working with Paul Goddard on an ERC project studying Quantum Materials under Extreme Conditions.

Two Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) project students have joined the group over the summer. Oliver Rigby (3^rd year Physics) is working with Martin Lees and Santosh Kumar on the physics of rare earth transition metal magnets as part of the PRETAMAG project. Stepan Marek (2nd year Physics) is working with Oleg Petrenko on SrRE₂O₄ frustrated magnetic materials.

The Group held its summer meal at Seasons restaurant in Leamington Spa. The whole group took the chance to get together and to wish Saurabh Barua bon voyage, as he is leaving the Group soon when his post-doc comes to a close.

The meal came about due to the excellent organisation of Dan Brunt. Thanks Dan!

Over the last month, Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan and the group have hosted three separate visits by Japanese scientists.

Dr. Kaya Kobayashi from Okayama University has been working with Dr Ales Stefancic growing some new superconducting single crystals.

Prof. Toshiro Takabatake from Hiroshima University, a world leading expert in crystal growth and especially heavy fermions, Kondo insulators, thermoelectrics and related materials, visited us to discuss joint projects that included a reciprocal visit by Dan Mayoh to Hiroshima in August.

Prof. Shinchiro Seki, RIKEN, Japan also visited us in August to discuss the study of magnetic materials and Skyrmions in materials.

Almost the whole group decamped to Abingdon to attend the annual Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM 2017). The meeting was combined with IOP Magnetism TCM joint group symposium and the UK-Korea workshop on strongly correlated electron systems. It was a great chance to talk to old friends and colleagues and to make new contacts. Dan Brunt gave an invited talk at the TCM theory meeting.

Prof. Ray Osborn, who is based at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA visited us just before TEMM and gave a CMP seminar, while Dr. Sylvain Petit of LLB -CEA Saclay came back from Abingdon with us to visit our labs and discuss future projects.

Monica Hatnean Ciomaga and Geetha Balakrishnan both attended this year's APS March meeting in New Orleans. Part scientific meeting – part Mardi Gras!

Congratulations to Joel Barker on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Joel, whose PhD work was jointly supervised by Don Paul at Warwick and Aidy Hillier at ISIS-RAL, has been studying the physics of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with a particular emphasis on the use of muon spectroscopy.

Joel's thesis which is entitled Muon Studies of Unconventional Superconductors can be downloaded from his web page.

We welcome Dr Ales Stefancic who has recently joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) studying the physics of Skyrmionic materials. Ales will work here at Warwick as part of a larger EPSRC Programme Grant Skyrmionics: From Magnetic Excitations to Functioning Low-Energy Devices involving the Universities of Durham, Cambridge, Southampton, and Oxford. The work here at Warwick will be led by Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan.

We also welcome Marta Crisanti who joins us as a Warwick/ILL Ph.D. student working under the joint supervision of Don Paul (Warwick) and Robert Cubitt who works in the Large Scale Structures Group at the ILL. Marta will also be working on Skyrmionic materials, focussing on the use of small angle neutron scattering.

Welcome to Dr Kathrin Gotze and Dr Robert Williams who have recently joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs).

Kathrin previously worked in the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Dresden, while Rob has just completed his PhD at Durham University. Both Robert and Kathrin will be working on an ERC funded project entitled Quantum Materials Under Extreme Conditions led by Dr Paul Goddard.

Dr Paul Goddard has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant with maximum ERC funding of 1.84 million euros.

The EXTREMEQUANTUM project will significantly advance our knowledge of interacting quantum systems.

Congratulations to Mo Saghir on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Mo, whose Ph.D. work was supervised by Geetha Balakrishnan, has been working on growing new topological insulators and superconductors in both bulk and nano form.

Mo's thesis is entitled Topological Insulators: A Study of Bulk Crystalline and Nanomaterials and can be downloaded from his web page.

Welcome to Dr Sourabh Barua and Dr Santosh Kumar who have just joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs).

Santosh will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan, Martin Lees, and Rachel Edwards (Ultrasound Group) on a project to study rare-earth based permanent magnetic systems. This EPSRC funded project (PRETAMAG) includes experimental and theoretical studies and is led by Professor Julie Staunton.

Sourabh will be studying topological insulators in bulk and nano form in an EPSRC project led by Geetha Balakrishnan with collaborations at several institutions including the universities of Manchester and St Andrews, PSI, UCLA, and TIFR.

Welcome to Panayiota Argyrou, Daniel Mayoh, and Simon Riberolles who have all joined the Group as students.

Daniel will be working toward a PhD based here at Warwick, while Simon will spend one year at Warwick and then two years based at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France as an ILL PhD student. Panayiota will be working for an MSc by research here at Warwick.

It's goodbye and good luck or rather tot ziens en succes to Tom Orton our Group Technician, who is leaving the Group after 15+ years of loyal service, man and boy. Tom is moving to Holland to work in the High Field Magnet Laboratory in Nijmegen. Everyone in Group would like to wish him success in his new role. Good luck Tom!