Jeremy Baumberg

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Jeremy Baumberg

FRS FInstP
Jeremy Baumberg in 2015
Born
Jeremy John Baumberg

(1967-03-14) 14 March 1967 (age 57)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisCoherent nonlinear optical processes in semiconductors (1992)
Doctoral advisorJohn F. Ryan
Websitewww.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/baumbergj

Jeremy John Baumberg, FRS, FInstP (born 14 March 1967) is a British physicist who is Professor of Nanoscience in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Director of the NanoPhotonics Centre.[citation needed]

Education[edit]

Baumberg was born on 14 March 1967. He was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Jesus College, Cambridge and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1988.[citation needed] He moved to the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1993. During his postgraduate study he was a student of Jesus College, Oxford and supervised by John Francis Ryan where his doctoral research investigated nonlinear optics in semiconductors.[citation needed]

Career and research[edit]

Following his PhD, Baumberg was a visiting IBM Research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 1994 to 1995.[citation needed] He returned to the UK to work in the Hitachi Cambridge Lab[1] from 1995 to 1998 before being appointed Professor of Nano-scale Physics at the University of Southampton[citation needed] from 1998 to 2007 where he co-founded Mesophotonics Limited, a Southampton University spin-off company.[citation needed]

Baumberg's research is in nanotechnology,[2] including nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and optical microcavities. He is interested in the development of nanostructured optical materials that undergo unusual interactions with light, and his research has various commercial applications.[3][4]

His early work led to the development of a number of pioneering experimental techniques.[2] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)[5][6] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).[7]

Baumberg appeared in the documentary The Secret Life of Materials in 2015 and a Horizon documentary about Schön scandal first broadcast in 2004.[8][9]

Awards and honours[edit]

Baumberg has received several awards for his research including the Mullard Award in 2004 and Rumford Medal in 2014, both from the Royal Society.[2] The Institute of Physics (IOP) awarded Baumberg with the Silver Young Medal and Prize in 2013[10] and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.[11] Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.[2]

Publications[edit]

  • The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and Why It Matters (Princeton UP, 2018)

Personal life[edit]

Baumberg is the son of the late Simon Baumberg OBE,[12] a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.[12][13][14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory". hit.phy.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
  2. ^ a b c d Anon (2011). "Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2017-06-28.
  3. ^ Cookson, Clive (2016). "Quantum technologies: Scientists build world's tiniest engine". ft.com. London: Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
  4. ^ Boult, Adam (2016). "British scientists create world's tiniest engine - a million times smaller than an ant". telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09.
  5. ^ Anon (2017). "Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Centre for Doctoral Training in NanoTechnology". www.epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-08-07.
  6. ^ Anon (2017). "EPSRC grants awarded to Professor JJ Baumberg". gow.epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-08-07.
  7. ^ Anon (2017). "UK government grants awarded to Jeremy John Baumberg, University of Cambridge". gtr.rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2017-08-07.
  8. ^ Jeremy Baumberg at IMDb
  9. ^ Green, Nick (2004). "Nano-scientist's dark secret". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Archived from the original on 2007-01-20.
  10. ^ "Young Medal recipients". iop.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
  11. ^ "Faraday medal recipients". iop.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
  12. ^ a b Anon (2017). "BAUMBERG, Prof. Simon". Who's Who & Who Was Who (online ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6830. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ Harwood, Colin (2007). "Simon Baumberg Obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2017-08-04.
  14. ^ Anon (2007). "Prof Simon Baumberg Obituary: Outstanding microbiologist". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.

External links[edit]

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