PhD Research

I completed my PhD in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan. My work focused on understanding the formation of magnetic skyrmions in centrosymmetric materials as part of the UK Skyrmion ProjectLink opens in a new window.

I used mostly neutron and x-ray scattering techniques to understand the physics of these systems.

Background

I completed a Master of Physics (MSci) degree at the University of Bristol in 2020. For my Master's project, I investigated photoconductivity in the quantum paraelectric materials SrTiO₃ and KTaO₃ and was supervised by Dr. Christopher Bell.

Where am I now?

George is currently an Instrument Scientist for the LET spectrometer at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.

Publications

G. D. A. Wood, D. D. Khalyavin, D. A. Mayoh, J. Bouaziz, A. E. Hall, S. J. R. Holt, F. Orlandi, P. Manuel, S. Blügel, J. B. Staunton, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan. "Double-Q ground state with topological charge stripes in the centrosymmetric skyrmion candidate GdRu₂Si₂" Phys. Rev. B 107, L180402 (2023)

Mayoh, Daniel A., George DA Wood, Samuel JR Holt, Grady Beckett, Emily JL Dekker, Martin R. Lees, and Geetha Balakrishnan. "Effects of Fe Deficiency and Co Substitution in Polycrystalline and Single Crystals of Fe₃GeTe₂." Cryst. Growth Des. 2021, 21, 12, 6786–6792

Conferences

Talks:

(1) IUCr 2023 Melbourne, Australia. (2) CMQM 2023 Birmingham, UK. (3) TEMM 2023 Abingdon, UK.(4) CRIM 2021 (Online Talk).

Posters:

(1) NMSUM 2023, Warwick, UK. (2) HFM 2022, Paris, France. (3) ISIS Student Meeting 2021, RAL, UK. (4) CMQM 2021 (Online).

Teaching Duties

For three years I demonstrated the Powder X-ray Diffraction experiment in the 2nd year undergraduate physics teaching laboratory

Write to

George Wood
Superconductivity and Magnetism Group (Room P2.20)
Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

E-Mail:

george dot wood at warwick dot ac dot uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)2476 574207

Office:

P2.20