Jeremy J. Baumberg

Jeremy John Baumberg, (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.

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. 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.

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. He returned to the UK to work in the Hitachi Cambridge Lab from 1995 to 1998 before being appointed professor of nano-scale physics at the University of Southampton from 1998 to 2007 where he co-founded Mesophotonics Limited, a Southampton University spin-off company.

Baumberg's research is in nanotechnology, His early work led to the development of a number of pioneering experimental techniques.

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. and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017. Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.

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, a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.