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Jeremy Baumberg
FRS FInstP
Jeremy Baumberg FRS FInstP
	Baumberg in 2015
Born	Jeremy John Baumberg; 14 March 1967 (age 57)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) ; University of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards	Young Medal and Prize (2013); Mullard Award (2004); Rumford Medal (2014); Faraday Medal and Prize (2017);
	Scientific career
Fields	Nanophotonics; Plasmonics; Metamaterials; Microcavities;
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of Southampton; University of California, Santa Barbara;
Thesis	Coherent nonlinear optical processes in semiconductors (1992)
Doctoral students	Pavlos Savvidis
Website	www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/baumbergj

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]}

Education

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]}

Career and research

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]

Baumberg appeared in the documentary The Secret Life of Materials in 2015 and a Horizon documentary about Schön scandal first broadcast in 2004.^[5]^[6]

Awards and honours

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^[7] and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.^[8] Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.^[2]

Publications

The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and Why It Matters (Princeton UP, 2018)

Personal life

Baumberg is the son of the late Simon Baumberg OBE,^[9] a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.^[9]^[10]^[11]