IOM3 Fellows elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
Two IOM3 Fellows joined the Royal Society last month.
We are delighted to share that two of our esteemed Fellows, Professor Judith Driscoll FRS FREng CEng FIMMM and Professor Neil Alford FRS FREng CEng FIMMM were elected Fellows of the Royal Society in May.
Professor Judith Driscoll is the Professor of Materials Science and Royal Academy of Engineering chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Cambridge. She is also the Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, APL Materials, from the American Institute of Physics.
On her election, Professor Driscoll says, 'At the stage of going to University, I was interested in Materials Science as it connects the disciplines. In those times, the subject was a minority one, but its importance has risen enormously over the decades. Interestingly, the number of departments has not changed. My interest is in the area of oxide thin films, which have enormous importance for devices applied to green energy generation, transmission, storage, and use. However, there are huge challenges of engineering these materials into useful devices. It is a topic that is not widely appreciated or understood. However, it is vital for applications and is a topic I am passionate about. In many ways, I am still like a new PhD student, wanting to find novel solutions and gain new understanding along the way.
It takes decades, great persistence, creativity, determination, and sometimes loneliness to be successful. But it is so satisfying when things sometimes work well. I feel greatly privileged to have been able to follow my path and my research dreams, enabled by a completely free education, as well as by great research students, and loyal and highly able collaborators and supporters from all over the world. And excitingly, we still have so much to do!'
Professor Neil Alford is a Materials Scientist. His research with colleagues at Imperial College London, NPL and University College London resulted in the first demonstration of a room temperature, Earth’s field solid-state MASER using Pentacene and the first observation of room temperature continuous wave masing in diamond with nitrogen-vacancy centres.
At Imperial College London, he has served as Head of the Department of Materials and Associate Provost. He was awarded the MBE for services to Engineering in 2013.
He says, 'I am absolutely delighted to be elected to the Royal Society in recognition of work in Materials Science and Engineering. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the extraordinary colleagues and collaborators that I have worked with over many years, who have made this award possible.'
Please join us in congratulating them as their contributions to the world of materials science continue to be acknowledged and celebrated.
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