Welcome to the Department of Materials
The Department of Materials at Imperial College is the oldest and largest department of its kind in the UK. We have a teaching quality assessment score of 24/24 and received a 5A rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. The department has published an Annual Report 2007-08 (4MB PDF) and a booklet describing Research in Progress 2007-08 (4MB PDF).
Job vacancies and PhD research opportunities available
The Department currently has employment vacancies and PhD research opportunities available.
Headlines
- Nano-images used in December journals
- High-ranking ceramics articles
- Edward Fitzpatrick, Laura Hare and Nathan Barber (first year Materials undergraduate students) were awarded scholarships in support of their studies by the Ironmongers Company
- European Ceramic Society Awards
- Porcelain research discussed in The Times
- Molly Stevens shares THES award
- EPSRC funds SQUID research
- Dr Luc Vandeperre was made Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
- Dr Peter D Haynes' Royal Society University Research Fellowship has been renewed for a further 3 years from 1 October 2010
