Departmental news

We are pleased to announce a significant milestone as the UK’s first-ever 1.2 GHz magnet reached full field at the end of March.

New funding has been awarded to Prof Tony Arber, Dr Keith Bennett, Dr Chris Brady and Dr Erwin Verwichte (University of Warwick) as part of a collaboration with the University of Exeter (lead institution), University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge and University of Glasgow.

New paper published in the AGU journal Space Weather by PhD student Martin Cafolla with colleagues from the Centre for Space Fusion and Astrophysics (CFSA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Congratulations to all those who have recently been granted their awards for Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Master of Science (by Research) in Physics.

We congratulate Prof. Julie Staunton (Theoretical Physics Group), who has received the 2025 Wohlfarth Memorial Lecturer Award from the IoP Magnetism Group. She delivered a plenary lecture at the Magnetism 2025 conference which took place in Sheffield on the 7^th and 8^th April.

Dr. Charlotte Allender, Head of the UK Vegetable Genebank at the School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for her work conserving vegetable crop genetic diversity.

On her nomination, Charlotte said: "I am very grateful to the RHS for this award; to have such a prestigious organisation recognise the value of your work is wonderful.”

This award recognises Dr. Allender’s research into conserving genetic variation of crop species and for her almost two decades-long service to the UK Vegetable Genebank. This work has been vital for food security by preserving these sources of genetic variation that are needed to develop new and robust crop varieties.

Charlotte added: “The conservation of plant genetic resources is vital and underpins the research and breeding activity necessary to develop the new crop varieties needed for a food secure future. I would like to acknowledge that the work of the UK Vegetable Genebank is only possible with a team of skilled and dedicated staff and the support of the University of Warwick and Defra.”

The UK Vegetable Genebank celebrates its 45th anniversary later this year. It currently stores around 14,000 vegetable seed samples, sourced from 128 different countries, making it a globally significant resource.

Press release

Ananya Singh, a third-year PhD student under the supervision of Dr Wing Ying Chow, was selected to present her research at the prestigious STEM for Britain event held at the House of Commons on March 11, 2025. Her research focuses on the 'Development of solid-state NMR approaches for probing fungal and human matrices with relevance to human disease.'

Gleb Berloff, 3rd year undergraduate student studying Physics with Astrophysics, submitted an entry to the Posters in Parliament event, based on activity cycles in Sun-like stars. The opportunity was advertised through IATL and included a tour of the House of Lords and Westminster Hall, a workshop titled ‘Get your voice heard in UK Parliament’ followed by the Student Research Poster Exhibition in the afternoon.

We are pleased to provide an update on the progress of the installation of the UK’s first 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer.

A research collaboration between The University of Warwick, the Smithsonian Institution and Embrapa (Brazilian agricultural research), has shown that thousands of years of farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca).

Press release (7 March 2025)