Jeremy J Baumberg is by day a Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. This site expresses his personal views on science, and particularly on the eco-system of science.

Prof Jeremy J Baumberg is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and directs a UK NanoPhotonics Centre at the University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in developing optical materials structured on the nano-scale that can be assembled in large volumes. He is also Director of the Cambridge Nano Doctoral Training Centre, a key UK site for training PhD students in interdisciplinary Nano research. Strong experience with Hitachi, IBM, spin-outs Mesophotonics and Base4, as well as extensive industrial engagement, give him a unique position to combine academic insight with industry application in a two-way flow. With over 19000 citations, he is a leading innovator in Nanoscience. This has led to awards of the Royal Society Rumford Medal (2014), IoP Faraday Medal (2017), IoP Young Medal (2013), Royal Society Mullard Prize (2005), the IoP Charles Vernon Boys Medal (2000) and the IoP Mott Lectureship (2005). He frequently talks on NanoScience to the media, and is a strategic advisor to the UK Research Councils. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of NanoTechnology.
[see www.np.phy.cam.ac.uk]