Professor Dan Allwood

BSc PhD MInstP CPhys

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Visiting Professor

d.allwood@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Dan Allwood
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering (Materials)

Profile

Dan obtained a BSc (1994) and PhD (1998) in Applied Physics from the University of Hull, where he studied pulsed laser interactions with organic molecules in MALDI mass spectrometry. His post-doctoral research posts were at University of Oxford (laser monitoring of MOVPE III-V semiconductor growth), Imperial College London (creating laser-produced plasmas from Xe gas jets) and Durham University (nanomagnetism and laser-based magneto-optics).

He moved to the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield for the start of his EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in Jan 2005. He has since mainly continued to work on nanoscale magnetism but has also studied bulk magnetic materials, magneto-optics, and 2D materials (transition metal dichalcogenides).

He is now a visiting professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering.

Qualifications

BSc Applied Physics, the University of Hull (1994)

PhD Applied Physics, the University of Hull (1998) - Pulsed Laser Interactions with Organic Molecules in MALDI Mass Spectrometry

Publications

Journal articles

Howard FHN, Al‐Janabi H, Patel P, Cox K, Smith E, Vadakekolathu J, Pockley AG, Conner J, Nohl JF, Allwood DA , Collado‐Rojas C et al (2022) Nanobugs as drugs: bacterial derived nanomagnets enhance tumor targeting and oncolytic activity of HSV‐1 virus. Small. View this article in WRRO
Ababei RV, Ellis MOA, Vidamour IT, Devadasan DS, Allwood DA, Vasilaki E & Hayward TJ (2021) Neuromorphic computation with a single magnetic domain wall. Scientific Reports, 11(1).
Lin L, Miao N, Wallace GG, Chen J & Allwood DA (2021) Engineering carbon materials for electrochemical oxygen reduction reactions. Advanced Energy Materials.

Conference proceedings papers

Hayward TJ, Vidamour IT, Ellis MO, Welbourne A, Dawidek RW, Broomhall TJ, Chambard M, Drouhin M, Keogh AM, Mullen A , Kyle SJ et al (2021) From stochasticity to functionality: harnessing magnetic domain walls for probabilistic and neuromorphic computing. Spintronics XIV, 1 August 2021 - 5 August 2021.

Preprints

Vidamour I, Swindells C, Venkat G, Fry P, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson R, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi S, Vasilaki E , Allwood D et al (2022) Reservoir Computing with Emergent Dynamics in a Magnetic Metamaterial, arXiv.

Grants

Horizon 2020:

SpinEngine

EPSRC:

EP/T018399/1 Controlling Acoustic Metamaterials with Magnetic Resonances: The Best of Both Worlds

EP/T028661/1 What happens when you cross LEGO and a Star Trek Replicator?

EP/S009647/1 From Stochasticity to Functionality: Probabilistic Computation with Magnetic Nanowires