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Come and study science at Oxford!  

Applications for graduate study are open across all the scientific subjects - watch this great new film: https://youtu.be/BzvQF6MTDn8. 

Looking specifically at Materials? Holly & Justin talk about what it's like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYk-WMc30U.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Oxford's Open Policy Engagement Network Visiting Fellowship scheme is seeking expressions of interest for this opportunity to collaborate with researchers regarding policy challenges.

Find out more, including how to apply, on the University's website: www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Thinking about postgraduate study?

Join us at the Oxford Materials Postgraduate Open Day on 17 Sept 2025
- Meet our students & academics
- Tour our labs
- Learn how to make a strong application
Oxford Department of Materials. Register now: lnkd.in/g_95Ev5z

#OxfordMaterials #PostgradStudy #OpenDay
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September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Postdocs and Fellows in Materials, the abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Postdoc Research Symposium has been extended to **today**, 22 July 2025 at 12noon.

Don’t miss your chance to join this exciting cross-department collaboration opportunity!

(SSO login): forms.office.com/e/rCDdqvPaUP
Branding and title for the event plus details: 'Give a 12 min presentation on your researcher with a chance to win a travel grant up to £200. Wednesday 30th of July, Wolfson Seminar Room, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 9:30-16:00. Lunch will be served, followed by drinks reception. All research staff, fellows and postdocs from Chemistry and Materials depts are welcome'.
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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🎈🎉Many congratulations🎈🎉 to Professor Saiful Islam, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Environment Prize & Medal, for deepening understanding of atomistic processes for lithium batteries & hybrid photovoltaics.

Read more on rsc.li/prizes.

@mplsoxford.bsky.social #RSCPrizxes #batteries
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June 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🎉🎈Many congratulations🎉🎈 to Professor Mauro Pasta, who has been awarded the 2025 @rsc.org 2025 Corday-Morgan Prize and Medal, for innovative research on novel battery chemistries.

Read more on rsc.li/prizes.

@mplsoxford.bsky.social #RSCPrizes #batteries #sustainability
Professor Pasta smiling, with the Royal Society of Chemistry branding and the words: '#RSC Prizes. 2025 PRIZES. Professor Mauro Pasta. Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. University of Oxford. Royal Society of Chemistry'.
June 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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We have a vacancy for a Departmental Lecturer in Materials Modelling. If the link in the poster below doesn't work, search for vacancy number 179858 on the University of Oxford's vacancies page: www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/academic-res....
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 13 June:
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June 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Professor Hannah Stern and a team from Cambridge have made a breakthrough in quantum sensing, which could herald atomic scale spatial mapping of the magnetic field.

Read more online: www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/brea....
Head and shoulders of Professor Hannah Stern. Image by Alexander Sneyd.
May 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Congratulations to Neil Young, who is now an Associate Professor of Electron Microscopy.

Neil has been managing the David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy for over a decade, where his focus is on developing the userbase and encouraging collaboration: www-em.materials.ox.ac.uk
Professor Young smiling and standing next to an electron microscope in the David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy.
May 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Led by @AstonUniversity, Oxford’s Bhaskaran Lab* is one of the partners in the new UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing. @EPSRC has committed to invest £5.6M into the centre: www.aston.ac.uk/research/eps....

*https://nanoeng.materials.ox.ac.uk/home

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May 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📢 We're Hiring 📢 Associate Professor (or Professor) of Materials at the University of Oxford

📍 Department of Materials, Parks Road, Oxford
📅 Starting: 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter
🕛 Deadline to apply: 12 noon, 30 May 2025

Click below
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May 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Prof Susie Speller has been funded by RAEng to bring her 'Superconductors Inc' game to schools across the UK.

The game introduces the students to buying, processing and selling the provided materials for a 'profit', and contains bite-sized educational content throughout.

#RAEngIngenious #MPLS
People playing the game and smiling. RAEng branding and the words: 'Superconductors Inc: An educational event game for schools. An immersive hands-on game, led by The University of Oxford, set in the world of the superconductor industry. Teams of Key Stage 3 pupils can compete to run the most successful start-up, which is designed to inspire students before GCSE choices. #TAEngIngenious raeng.org.uk/ingenious
May 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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A £3M investment in Mode Labs' new chemical sensing platform will make 'plug-and-play' laboratory measurements mobile and very affordable - for example for testing for pollution in streams and rivers.

Read more on our website: materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/home

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April 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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With thanks to @nicolegrobert.bsky.social for this image of an ultralightweight advanced ceramic fibre material.

This, and many other advanced materials possibilities, were discussed at the launch of the Oxford Materials Network on 26 March: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

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April 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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We're really enjoying @daisyhunguk.bsky.social's book #IAmNotATourist - including our mascot, Materials Millie.

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March 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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We are absolutely thrilled that the Vice-Chancellor officially opened our new JEOL GrandARM 300F electron microscope earlier today in the David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy.

@jeoleurope.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @mplsoxford.bsky.social
The VC and Professor Nellist holding/cutting the ribbon of the JEOL GrandArm 300F in the lab Left to right - Professor Pete Nellist (Head of Department), Professor Irene Tracey (Vice-Chancellor) and Fernanda Haswell-Martin (Head of Administration and Finance)
March 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y to Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, who is 100 today! 🎈🎉🎈.

We'll be celebrating later on this year with a symposium in his honour (forms.office.com/pages/respon...), but for today, if you're reading this Sir Peter, very many happy returns of the day!
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January 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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We will be celebrating Prof Sir Peter Hirsch's 100th birthday with a special scientific symposium on 17 March.

Places are limited (booking form below) - don't miss out on what promises to be a fabulous event!

forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Photo of Prof Sir Peter Hirsch and the logos for JEOL, University of Oxford and Oxford Materials. The program is listed: presentations, poster sessions, lunch, networking, and the biennial Hume-Rothery Lecture. The venues are the Department of Materials in Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
December 19, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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We love this challenge from the Radcliffe Science Library:

'Explore the library EDI portrait collection across our spaces with the crossword on our blog or physical copies throughout the library.

blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/2024... '
Two silhouette profiles of people with crossword matrixes within each silhouette.
November 27, 2024 at 8:33 AM