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Biography
Judith Louise MacManus-Driscoll is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the American Physical Society (APS).
Education
She earned an undergraduate degree in materials science at Imperial College London, and a PhD in 1990 from the University of Cambridge.
Research and career
She did training as a postdoctoral researcher from 1991-1995 at Stanford University and subsequently joined the IBM Almaden Research Center. She joined Imperial College London as a lecturer in the Department of Materials, and was promoted to reader in 1999. She then did a sabbatical at Los Alamos National Laboratory and subsequently joined the University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in 2003. She was promoted to Professor in 2008.
Driscoll has conducted research widely across the fields of complex functional materials, with a particular emphasis of the engineering of them to obtain the performance required for industry application and for future energy devices. She has worked largely on oxide systems, focusing particularly on high temperature superconductivity, ferroics and multiferroics, ionics, and semiconductors.
Driscoll is founding editor-in-chief of the American Institute of Physics's journal APL Materials. She has several patents relating to high-temperature superconductivity.
Honours and awards
- 2011 Inducted as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2015 Institute of Physics Joule Medal and Prize
- 2015 Royal Academy of Engineering Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize
- 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers James Wong Award
- 2018 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Kroll Prize
