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Jeremy Baumberg
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Jeremy John Baumberg
14 March 1967 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
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| Thesis | Coherent nonlinear optical processes in semiconductors (1992) |
| Doctoral students | Pavlos Savvidis |
Jeremy John Baumberg, born on March 14, 1967, is a British scientist. He is a professor of nanoscience at the University of Cambridge. He works at the famous Cavendish Laboratory and leads the NanoPhotonics Centre there.
His Education Journey
Jeremy Baumberg started his studies at the University of Cambridge. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in natural sciences in 1988.
Later, he went to the University of Oxford. There, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1993. His research focused on how light behaves in certain materials called semiconductors.
His Career and Research
After finishing his PhD, Professor Baumberg worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States from 1994 to 1995.
He then returned to the UK. He worked at the Hitachi Cambridge Lab from 1995 to 1998. After that, he became a professor at the University of Southampton. He taught there from 1998 to 2007. While at Southampton, he helped start a company called Mesophotonics Limited.
Professor Baumberg's main research area is nanotechnology. This field deals with very tiny things, often smaller than a human hair. He studies how light interacts with these tiny materials.
His work includes nanophotonics, which is about controlling light at the nanoscale. He also explores plasmonics, metamaterials, and optical microcavities. These are all ways to make materials that behave in unusual ways with light. His discoveries have many uses in the real world.
Professor Baumberg has also appeared on TV. He was in a documentary called The Secret Life of Materials in 2015. He also appeared in a Horizon documentary in 2004.
Awards and Achievements
Professor Baumberg has received many important awards for his scientific work.
- In 2004, he received the Mullard Award from the Royal Society.
- The Institute of Physics gave him the Silver Young Medal and Prize in 2013.
- In 2014, he was awarded the Rumford Medal, also from the Royal Society.
- The Institute of Physics honored him again with the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.
In 2011, Jeremy Baumberg was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). This is a very high honor for scientists in the UK.
About His Family
Jeremy Baumberg's father was Simon Baumberg. His father was also a scientist, a microbiologist. He was a professor at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.
