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]
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Born | 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 advisor | John F. Ryan |
Website | www |
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]
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] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)[5][6] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).[7]
Baumberg appeared in the documentary The Secret Life of Materials in 2015 and a Horizon documentary about Schön scandal first broadcast in 2004.[8][9]
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[10] and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.[11] Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.[2]
Baumberg is the son of the late Simon Baumberg OBE,[12] a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.[12][13][14]