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New Year Post - Welcome to the Community: Royce at the University of Sheffield

Happy New Year from Royce at the University of Sheffield

Welcome to 2026 and our first official post from the team. Our ambition is to bring together the advance materials community.

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Professor Alice Pyne has received the 2026 BBS Louise Johnson Early Career Award

Professor Pyne has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to the field of biophysics and will present an invited lecture on her work at the 2026 British Biophysical Society (BBS) Biennial meeting in Glasgow.
NanoMEGAS

Advanced Tribology and Wear Research at The University of Sheffield Using NanoMEGAS

The Sorby Centre for Electron Microscopy, School of Chemical Materials and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield
3d Printing - Acconity Mini

Finding out about Additive Manufacturing

Integral to our role here at Royce is outreach. This week we welcomed Lila on a work experience placement to the RDC. She's been investigating a couple of facilities and this is what she's observed in Additive Manufacturing with Dr. George Maddison.
Kathy Christofidou - IOM3 video

Announcing new leadership within Royce at the University of Sheffield

Prof Jackson, who has tirelessly worked as Research Area Lead for AMP for the last three years, is stepping down to be succeeded by Prof Christofidou. Subsequently, her previous role of Technology Platform Lead will be passed to Dr Azakli.

Henry Royce Institute Digital Series Champions Materials in Driving Net-Zero

Royce has partnered with IOM3 and Content With Purpose (CWP) to produce a digital series exploring advances throughout the materials cycle to address the climate crisis.
Business Secretary Grant Schapps Visits Royce Hub Building at the University of Manchester

New Business Secretary Announces £95m New Government Funding for Advanced Materials Research and Development

Business Secretary Grant Shapps has announced a second phase of funding for the Henry Royce Institute, the UK’s advanced materials research institute.
Kathy Christofidou - IOM3 video

IOM3 Launches Digital Series Championing Key Role of Materials in Driving Net-Zero

IOM3 has partnered with Royce and CWP to produce a digital series exploring expertise and advances throughout the materials cycle to address the climate crisis, achieve net zero targets, and accelerate the circular economy.
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Making software open and accessible to benefit research

Dr Alice Pyne, Head of our Nanocharacterisation laboratory, discusses the software her team created to analyse changes in DNA structure, and how making it open and accessible has benefited her field.