A huge congratulations to University of Bristol Emeritus Professor, Sir Michael Berry, who has been awarded the Institute of Physics prestigious Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture for the year 2025.
Many congratulations to Dr. Sven Friedemann of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the Brian Pippard Prize, a prize for scientists working in the UK who has made a significant contribution to superconductivity in recent years.
We are delighted to announce that our very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been successfully awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Fellowship, to develop a new type of quantum microscope to discover new phases of quantum matter for novel energy-efficient electronic applications.
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Cross from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded to the author of the PhD thesis that makes the strongest contribution to the understanding of superconductivity within a given year.
The School of Physics' very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, Lecturer in Quantum Materials, has been awarded a prestigious UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award. The £942,830 grant will support Wang's frontier research into visualizing and understanding the complex interplay between electron correlations, topology, and magnetism in quantum materials over the next three years.
Dr. Jonathan Buhot, from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship to undertake research within the School of Physics on hydride superconductors.
Over the summer, Dr. James Drewitt, Alegra Skare, and Dr. Adrian Barnes have developed a new acoustic levitation system called MultiLev, designed for dynamic positioning of multiple samples in mid-air.
An exciting new article on superconductivity has been published in Science Advances, co-authored by School of Physics academics Dr. Sven Friedemann, Dr. Felix Flicker, Dr. Jonathan Buhot and Dr. Jake Ayres
This year's undergraduate teaching prizes have been awarded to lectures from the Correlated Electron Systems group.
