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This week, Dr Shruti Chakravarty joins the group as Research Fellow. Welcome Shruti!

Welcome to Jacob, who joins the group today as a PhD student co-funded by the University of Birmingham and the ISIS Facility Development and Utilisation PhD Studentship scheme.

Congratulations to Tristan, who passed his PhD viva today! We wish you all the best in the next steps of your career.

This month, Amie attended the Neutron Training Course at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. This involved a poster session, lectures, practical experiments and tutorials with fellow PhD students in the neutron scattering community. The practical experiments covered crystal alignment and sample mounting on a range of instruments at ISIS. In terms of software, AmieContinue reading “Amie Attends the ISIS Neutron Training Course”

Congratulations to Dr Jen Graham who passed her PhD viva this month for her thesis on the role of correlated disorder in quantum materials. Jen’s PhD was co-funded by the ILL, where she was co-supervised by Dr Andrew Wildes and worked on the polarised neutron instrument, D7. During her PhD, Jen has developed expertise inContinue reading “Dr Jen Graham Passes PhD Viva”

This week, we had to say goodbye to postdoc, Sam as he leaves us for his new job as a senior data analyst in the UK Civil Service. Since 2020, Sam has been focused on our group’s explorations into MOF materials and their potential exfoliation down to nanolayer thickness. Sam has completed lots of greatContinue reading “Sam Moves on to Senior Data Analyst Role”

We were very excited this week to host the first BIRMAC meeting – a strategic partnership between the University of Birmingham and McMaster University in Ontario, Canada in which we aim to form new collaborations and discussions for our shared research interests in quantum materials. Our meeting was held earlier this week, where our group,Continue reading “First BIRMAC Meeting”

Our latest paper has just been published in Physical Review Letters! In this paper, we find that LiYbO2 is the first experimental realisation of a spiral spin liquid ground state in an elongated diamond lattice. This work is significant as it overcomes previous experimental challenges in observing spiral spin liquids and combines magnetic Bragg andContinue reading “New Paper in PRL”

This week the group attended the UK Neutron & Muon Science and User Meeting (NMSUM23) held at Warwick University. This is the first time the conference has hit pre-pandemic capacity, so was an excellent meeting to get to know other members in our scientific community and listen to all of the talks which utilise theContinue reading “NMSUM 2023”

This month, Tristan attended the 19th Durham Crystallography School, where he learned about the mathematical basis of which all structural refinements are undertaken. This was an intensive school, providing a real crash course in crystallography!  This training will assist Tristan in interpreting his data as well as understanding the importance of different routes to solving crystalContinue reading “Tristan Attends the Durham Crystallography School”