{{short description|British physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jeremy Baumberg | birth_name = Jeremy John Baumberg | image = Jeremy Baumberg.png | caption = Baumberg in 2015 | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FInstP|size=100%}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|03|14|df=y}} | workplaces = {{plainlist| * University of Cambridge * University of Southampton * University of California, Santa Barbara }} | fields = {{hlist|Nanophotonics|Plasmonics|Metamaterials|Microcavities}} | alma_mater = University of Cambridge (BA) <br /> University of Oxford (DPhil) | thesis_title = Coherent nonlinear optical processes in semiconductors | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305972 | thesis_year = 1992 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = Pavlos Savvidis | awards = {{Plainlist| * Young Medal and Prize (2013) * Mullard Award (2004) * Rumford Medal (2014) * Faraday Medal and Prize (2017) }} | website = {{URL|http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/baumbergj}} }} '''Jeremy John Baumberg''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|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.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
==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.{{cn|date=November 2023}} 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.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
==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.{{cn|date=November 2023}} He returned to the UK to work in the Hitachi Cambridge Lab<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hit.phy.cam.ac.uk/|website=hit.phy.cam.ac.uk|title=Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808221744/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/prof-simon-baumberg-1-2464752|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref> from 1995 to 1998 before being appointed professor of nano-scale physics at the University of Southampton{{cn|date=November 2023}} from 1998 to 2007 where he co-founded Mesophotonics Limited, a Southampton University spin-off company.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
Baumberg's research is in nanotechnology,<ref name=frs/> 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.<ref name=ft>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/1af0efea-1045-11e6-bb40-c30e3bfcf63b|publisher=Financial Times|location=London|website=ft.com|title=Quantum technologies: Scientists build world's tiniest engine|first=Clive|last=Cookson|year=2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808032952/https://www.ft.com/content/1af0efea-1045-11e6-bb40-c30e3bfcf63b|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/04/british-scientists-create-worlds-tiniest-engine---a-million-time/|website=telegraph.co.uk|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|title=British scientists create world's tiniest engine - a million times smaller than an ant|first=Adam|last=Boult|year=2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809185841/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/04/british-scientists-create-worlds-tiniest-engine---a-million-time/|archive-date=2017-08-09}}</ref> His early work led to the development of a number of pioneering experimental techniques.<ref name=frs/>
Baumberg appeared in the documentary ''The Secret Life of Materials'' in 2015 and a ''Horizon'' documentary about Schön scandal first broadcast in 2004.<ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name|id=1580910}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3459769.stm|website=news.bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC|first=Nick|last=Green|year=2004|title=Nano-scientist's dark secret|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120182214/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3459769.stm|archive-date=2007-01-20}}</ref>
===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.<ref name=frs/> The Institute of Physics (IOP) awarded Baumberg with the Silver Young Medal and Prize in 2013<ref name=young>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/silver/young/medallists/page_38619.html|title=Young Medal recipients|website=iop.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808221744/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/prof-simon-baumberg-1-2464752|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref> and the Gold Faraday Medal and Prize in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/faraday/medallists/page_38448.html|title=Faraday medal recipients|website=iop.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808221744/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/prof-simon-baumberg-1-2464752|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref> Baumberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.<ref name=frs>{{cite web|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|author=Anon|year=2011|title=Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-baumberg-11056/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628120846/https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-baumberg-11056/|archive-date=2017-06-28}}</ref>
==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,<ref name=whowaswho>{{Who's Who | title=BAUMBERG, Prof. Simon | id = U6830 | year = 2017 | edition = online |location=Oxford|type=was|author=Anon|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6830}}</ref> a microbiologist and who served as Professor of bacterial genetics at the University of Leeds from 1996 to 2005.<ref name=whowaswho/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/06/obituaries.mainsection|website=The Guardian|title=Simon Baumberg Obituary|first=Colin|last=Harwood|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804215048/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/06/obituaries.mainsection|archive-date=2017-08-04}}</ref><ref name=yorks>{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/prof-simon-baumberg-1-2464752|newspaper=The Yorkshire Post|title=Prof Simon Baumberg Obituary: Outstanding microbiologist|author=Anon|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808221744/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/prof-simon-baumberg-1-2464752|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|35em}}
==External links== *Jeremy Baumberg's {{ORCID|0000-0002-9606-9488}}
{{Authority control}} {{FRS 2011}}
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