Jeremy Baumberg 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.
11 Facts About Jeremy Baumberg
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Jeremy Baumberg moved to the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1993.
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Jeremy Baumberg 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.
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Jeremy Baumberg's research is in nanotechnology, including nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and optical microcavities.
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Jeremy Baumberg is interested in the development of nanostructured optical materials that undergo unusual interactions with light, and his research has various commercial applications.
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Highlights of Jeremy Baumberg's research include his work on confining light to the nanoscopic scale and plasmonic interactions with metals; the ultrafast dynamics of magnetic semiconductors, which made a significant contribution to the area of spintronics; work on coherent control in solids; and studies of semiconductor microcavities.
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Jeremy Baumberg holds patents on coherent control, supercontinuum generation chips, plasmon filters, photonic crystal lasers, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates and solar cells.
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Jeremy Baumberg appeared as himself on the documentary The Secret Life of Materials in 2015 and a Horizon documentary about Schon scandal first broadcast in 2004.
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Jeremy Baumberg has received several awards for his research including the Mullard Award in 2004 and Rumford Medal in 2014, both from the Royal Society.
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Jeremy Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, a Fellow of The Optical Society of America in 2006 and has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1998.
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Jeremy Baumberg is the son of the late Simon Jeremy Baumberg OBE, a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.