Jeremy Baumberg

Jeremy Baumberg FRS FInstP
Baumberg in 2015
Born	Jeremy John Baumberg (1967-03-14) 14 March 1967 (age 57)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards	Young Medal and Prize (2013) Mullard Award (2004) Rumford Medal (2014) Faraday Medal and Prize (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Nanophotonics Plasmonics Metamaterials Microcavities
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Southampton University of California, Santa Barbara
Thesis	Coherent nonlinear optical processes in semiconductors (1992)
Doctoral students	Pavlos Savvidis
Website	www.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

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

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]

Baumberg appeared in the documentary The Secret Life of Materials in 2015 and a Horizon documentary about Schön scandal first broadcast in 2004.^[5][6]

Awards and honours

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^[7] and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.^[8] Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.^[2]

Publications

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

Personal life

Baumberg is the son of the late Simon Baumberg OBE,^[9] a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.^[9][10][11]

References

1. "Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory". hit.phy.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
2. 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. Jeremy Baumberg at IMDb
6. Green, Nick (2004). "Nano-scientist's dark secret". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Archived from the original on 2007-01-20.
7. "Young Medal recipients". iop.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
8. "Faraday medal recipients". iop.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
9. 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.)
10. Harwood, Colin (2007). "Simon Baumberg Obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2017-08-04.
11. Anon (2007). "Prof Simon Baumberg Obituary: Outstanding microbiologist". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.

External links

• Jeremy Baumberg's ORCID 0000-0002-9606-9488