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🔬🇨🇦☘🏳️‍🌈 STEMer chasing multiferroic topologies
ERC CoG DISCO & Royal Society URF
Imperial College London
Alum: PNNL KAUST UCC Tyndall #FirstGen 🦆
🥳🎉 yay Congrats Neil!
Professor Neil Alford MBE FRS has been elected a Fellow of the The Royal Society! 🎉

Professor Alford has established an international reputation for his development of functional materials, notably oxides for radiofrequency/microwave applications.

Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264156/...
Imperial researchers elected as Fellows of Royal Society | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Imperial experts in public health, physics, materials and AI have been announced as new Fellows of the Royal Society.
www.imperial.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”

EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.

In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Essential snacks for Easter beam line experiments @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The microscopes have been put to sleep for the Easter break, the ducks are in a row and we couldn’t be having prettier London weather ❤️ @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialmaterials.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Postgrad seminar day! The group gave great talks and posters on thin film growth and all things wonderful microscopy from cryo atom to electron diff ptychography 🔬😎 @imperialmaterials.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social #microscopy
March 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🚀 New funding opportunities for researchers! Apply for up to £10K via Royce Proof of Market or up to £80K via MATcelerate ZERO to support advanced materials research and translation into impact 🔗: matceleratezero.com/funding-call-for-researchers/

#MaterialsInnovation #ImperialCollegeLondon
Funding call for Researchers – Matcelerate Zero
matceleratezero.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Jenny Nelson is the best. Sharing her wisdom on organic photovoltaics: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ChemSky
March 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Nano 2 MEng and MSc @imperialmaterials.bsky.social students presented their group posters yesterday. What a great way to end the teaching term !

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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🔬🚨💥 Deadline extension!! You now have until 28th Feb to get your abstracts submitted!! 🔬🚨💥
February 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Metamaterials, invisibility and perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism!

Loved the dancing electric & magnetic field dancing dancing description!

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Dean’s Annual Lecture 2025 given by Sir Prof John Pendry ! #metamaterials
February 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Meet our expert in advanced electron microscopy, Dr Shelly Conroy! 🔍✨

Her research is pushing the boundaries of materials science and microscopy! 🚀

Learn more: www.imperial.ac.uk/royce-facilities/our-staff/

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2TjJRxzNg

#MaterialsScience #ImperialCollegeLondon
How do Royce facilities support your research?
YouTube video by Royce at Imperial
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February 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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“ERC succeeds because it’s different. Its simple, tailored procedures allow Europe’s best researchers to thrive. Bureaucratic processes designed for other programmes should not be imposed on it.”

@marialep.bsky.social spoke up for an independent ERC with a doubled budget today @europarl.europa.eu
February 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
London duck bringing good luck for grant interview tomorrow in Germany 😎🙌
February 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
M&M abstract writing….Lukas changed the entire lyrics for Chappell Roan songs to APT themed

Cold to Go!

I could be the one cooling down the P-FIB
Getting out a cell, and prepare to freeze it
I can't use the GIS, but it's not a problem
Make the needle thin with the ion column

@batgo.bsky.social 🤣🤭
February 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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To mark the @UNESCO International Day of Women & Girls in Science, EMA asked women working in magnetism: "Have you encountered any challenges in your scientific career that you feel could be directly linked to your gender?"
#EveryVoiceInScience
The vast majority of respondents said yes 😔. Read more👇
February 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science ! I’m so lucky to work with such awesome women in my research group !

Dr Yaqi Li, Mariana Palos-Sanchez, Ramin Jannat, Sophia Linssen-Pitsaros, Belle Hoye @imperialmaterials.bsky.social #WomeninSTEM @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social #microscopy
February 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Baron Li doing STEM of magnetic thin films from @braggroyceleeds.bsky.social for the @ukri.org CAMIE grant 😎🧲 @imperialmaterials.bsky.social

He still has original notes from his MSc on STEM alignment 🔬
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Our News and Views about memristors operating at cryogenic temperatures just got published in Nature Materials. Check it out: rdcu.be/d9rOB @naturematerials.bsky.social
A cryogenic memristor
Nature Materials - Tunable anomalous Hall resistive states of magnetic topological insulators are utilized to achieve analogue in-memory computing at cryogenic temperatures.
rdcu.be
February 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Dr @tigransimonian.bsky.social joined the group today ! Welcome to @imperialmaterials.bsky.social and the NAME programme grant 🔬🎉
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Electrons are green! @imperialmaterials.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Disney walk to the lab this morning 🙌 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialmaterials.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM