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Producing a wide range of exciting, innovative and timely Materials Science at the University of Oxford.
Congratulations to Prof Rob Weatherup on the award of an ERC Consolidator grant for his OPERATE project.
Read more on our website: https://materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rob-weatherup-and-new-erc-grant-for-special-operando-project.
#Operando #ERCCoG
A very cool video about the very cool Saiful Islam @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social @mplsoxford.bsky.social
05.12.2025 21:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
🎓 Applications are open for the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social & @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social!
Among many exciting topics, have a look at our projects P10 and P13, both combining MLIPs and #compchem with close experimental collaborations: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
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Ready for a UK-wide competition that puts your students’ problem-solving to the test?
Registration for the UK #ChemistryOlympiad 2026 closes 14 January. Don’t let your students miss out on the excitement.
Sign up your school (it’s free) ➡️ https://rsc.li/43d6Bhc #EduSky #ChemSky
Calling all @ox.ac.uk folk interested in knowing more about policy outputs, come join me at this hands-on workshop next week!
03.11.2025 11:20 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0If you're working on any UK Government missions, consider joining us here in the Department of Materials as an OPEN Visiting Fellow.
Our portfolio covers sustainable energy, quantum technologies, structural alloys for nuclear and aerospace environments, and biomaterials.
An aerial view of Oxford with the words 'OPEN Oxford Policy Engagement Network Visiting Fellowship' superimposed.
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...
View of the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
External view of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
View of the dome in the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
View of the Sohmen Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and Humanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨
A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026.
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We are very sad to announce the death of Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, FRS.
Sir Peter was a great scientist, mentor, colleague and friend, and he will be much missed.
www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...
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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
Congratulations to everyone collecting their A Level results today! If you are #GoingToOxford to read Materials Science, let us know - we're looking forward to welcoming you!
14.08.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're delighted to be part of the ENLIGHT collaborative group, led by @manchester.ac.uk.
A major grant has been secured to transform the lifecycle of graphite in nuclear energy: www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...
@mplsoxford.bsky.social #graphite #NuclearPower
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'.
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
Professor Islam smiling, with the RSC branding and the words:'#RSC Prizes. 2025 PRIZES. Professor Saiful Islam. Environment, Sustainability and Energy Open Prize: Environment Prize. University of Oxford. Royal Society of Chemistry'.
🎈🎉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
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'.
🎉🎈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
Hot off the press!
24.06.2025 07:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This paper is a great read, and includes work from our very own Professor Jason Smith: www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/...
18.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A megaphone and speech bubble with the word 'hiring'. The rest of the poster is text which highlights key items from the job description available using the hyperlink within the poster, or by clicking on the long URL in the text above this poster.
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:
Head and shoulders of Professor Hannah Stern. Image by Alexander Sneyd.
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....
What can you do with a Materials Science doctorate?
Start your own sustainability-focused company & be recognised in Forbes' 30-under-30 before you've even had a chance to attend your degree ceremony.
Many congratulations to Dr Chan who did exactly that:
www.materials.ox.ac.uk/article/dr-h...
Professor Young smiling and standing next to an electron microscope in the David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy.
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
A human brain shape positioned over a computer's circuit board
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
@MPLS @UniofOfxord
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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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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
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
📢 We’re hiring! 📢
Join @UniofOxford as an Associate Professor of Materials 🧪
🔬 Research areas incl. atom-probe tomography, biomaterials, quantum materials, mat processing.
💼 £55.7k–£74.8k + benefits
🗓 Apply by 30 May 2025
👉 www.materials.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
#OxfordJobs #STEM #AcademicJobs
Few more (free) tickets left for this #IamNotaTourist @blackwells.bsky.social Oxford panel this Saturday from 3-4pm with @annasulan.bsky.social, Vera Chok and @jennywcreative.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-am-not-a...
24.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FAB prize open for new writers and illustrators of colour in UK and Ireland - children’s publishing. Deadline 25 July. #Booksky 💙📚 www.faber.co.uk/about-faber/...
22.04.2025 07:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you can't find the article on our website regarding Mode Labs' exciting new chemical sensing platform, try this link: materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/mode...
16.04.2025 12:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
@mplsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
