News

UCL Conference

19 June 2025

This week has seen several QM members attending the annual Condensed Matter Physics in the City conference at UCL, London. Profs Grosche & Dutton delivered talks on heavy fermion materials and Jahn-Teller distortions, respectively. Final-year PhD student Zheyu Wu (pictured) gave an overview of his recent UTe 2 studies...

Big Fridge move

9 June 2025

After many weeks of preparations, today was the day of moving the 2.70m high Big Fridge cryostat. This is the vessel that houses our 20.4T magnet system, which had been moved separately a few days earlier. The new building features great ceiling height in the Cryostat Hall, which is nice, but there is no access route that...

Lab moves

5 June 2025

Big things have been happening at the Cavendish this past month: the QM labs are moving into a new building, the Ray Dolby Centre. The new home for our group is only a few hundred metres away, but the move has been painful on every level. A removals company has been doing a lot of the hard lifting, but the bulk of the work...

Theo wins Research Fellowship

24 April 2025

Final-year PhD student Theo Weinberger's monumental efforts in the service of science have been rewarded by a Junior Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College, starting in October. That's three years of funding and (comparative) independence. Excellent news for the whole group. Congratulations, Theo, we are very glad...

Christian and Oliver vivas

23 January 2025

In rapid succession, Christian de Podesta and Oliver Squire had their PhD vivas this week, having submitted their dissertations in under four years. Christian's viva was on Monday 20 January, with Philipp Niklowitz (external, Royal Holloway) and Montu Saxena (internal) as his examiners. Oliver's viva took place on...

Max Daschner PhD viva

22 December 2024

Congratulations are in order to Max, who had his PhD viva on 17 December - and a big thank you to his examiners: external Tony Carrington (Bristol) and internal Jason Robinson. Max completed a tricky project on quantum oscillation studies in topological semimetals on time and on budget and is now starting a postdoc at LMU...

CDT in Superconductivity, Cambridge Open Day 3 December

31 October 2024

PhD applicants for 2024/25 may be interested to learn that we are part of a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Superconductivity, together with colleagues in Bristol and Oxford. Superconductivity is a multi-disciplinary research theme, which includes engineers, material scientists, as well as experimental...

Max submits his dissertation!

16 October 2024

QM student Maximilian Daschner buckled down over the summer and produced a nice PhD dissertation, which he managed to submit at the end of September, just before his caring college was going to kick him out of his generous lodgings. Max took the path less traveled by: while most of the group are working on unconventional...

Christian submitted as well!

8 September 2024

QM student Christian de Podesta successfully submitted his PhD dissertation at the end of August, after a sprint to meet an aspirational deadline. Christian's dissertation 'Magnetism in Cerium Diantimonides under Pressure' nicely complements the work submitted by Oliver the day before. These two projects produced a step...

Oliver submitted his PhD thesis!

5 September 2024

Just within the self-inflicted deadline, QM PhD student Oliver Squire submitted his evocatively titled thesis 'High-Pressure Studies of Some Heavy Fermion Materials'. Oliver is moving on immediately to a job at the Canadian quantum technology company Photonic. Congratulations!