M A R K M I O D O W N I K
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BFI, Feb 2013
A battle for the soul of science and technology
The Engineer, Jan 2013
Carving a niche in a world of flaws
The Times, March 2012
The Guardian, Feb 2012
Small scale, massive impact: live nanotechnology Q&A
The Guardian, Dec 2011
Ten Questions Science Must Answer
The Guardian, Dec 2010
Eureka Mag, The Times, Sept 2010
The Times, 10th February 2010
Godfather of Instruction Manuals
The Guardian, 20th August 2009
The Financial Times, 20th June 2009
The Guardian, 17th Nov 2008
Its a Printer Jim, but not as we know it
The Independent, 4th Feb 2008
BIOG
Mark is an engineer and materials scientist. He is the Professor of Materials and Society at UCL where he teaches and runs a research group.
Mark received his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University, and has worked as a materials scientist in the USA, Ireland and the UK. His research lab is based in the Mechanical Engineering Department of UCL. His research areas include self-assembling materials, self-healing materials, psychophysical properties of materials.
Mark is the Director of the Institute of Making which is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to clothes, furniture to cities.
Mark is a broadcaster and writer on science and engineering issues, and believes passionately that to engineer is human. He regularly gives popular talks on engineering and materials science to tv, radio, festival, and school audiences. He gave the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and is a regular presenter of science and engineering BBC tv programmes.
Mark was recently included in the The Times list of the top 100 most influential people in UK science.
He is on Twitter here
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Recent Research Publications
J. J. Munoz, V. Conte, N. Asadipour, M. Miodownik. (2013) A truss element for modelling reversible softening in living tissues. Mechanics Research Communications 49, 44-49.
Wongsriruksa S., Howes, P., Conreen M., and Miodownik M. (2012) The use of physical property data to predict the touch perception of materials. Materials & Design Vol 42, Pages 238–244.
Vito Conte, Florian Ulrich, Buzz Baum, Jose Muñoz, Jim Veldhuis, Wayne Brodland, Mark Miodownik (2012) A Biomechanical Analysis of Ventral Furrow Formation in the Drosophila Melanogaster Embryo
PLoS ONE 7(4): e34473.
Mokhtari O, Roshanghias A, Ashayer R, Kotadia HR, Khomamizadeh F, Kokabi AH, Clode MP, Miodownik M, Mannan SH (2012) Disabling of Nanoparticle Effects at Increased Temperature in Nanocomposite Solders Journal of Electronic Materials 1-8
Piqueras-Fiszman B, Laughlin Z, Miodownik M, Spence C (2012) Tasting spoons: Assessing how the material of a spoon affects the taste of the food. FQ & Pref 24(1):24-29
Laughlin Z., Conreen M., Witchel HJ. and Miodownik M. (2011) The use of standard electrode potentials to predict the taste of solid metals. FQ & Pref., 22 (7), pp. 628-637.
Brodland GW, Conte V, Cranston PG, Veldhuis J, Narasimhan S, Hutson MS, Jacinto A, Ulrich F, Baum B, Miodownik M. Video force microscopy reveals the mechanics of ventral furrow invagination in Drosophila. PNAS 2010 Dec 2
Cohen M, Baum B, Miodownik M. The importance of structured noise in the generation of self-organizing tissue patterns through contact-mediated cell-cell signalling. Journal of Royal Society Interface. 2010 Nov 17.
Michael Cohen and Marios Georgiou, Nicola L. Stevenson, Mark Miodownik and Buzz Baum. Dynamic filopodia transmit intermittent Delta-Notch signalling to drive pattern refinement during lateral inhibition. Developmental Cell, Vol. 19, No. 1. (20 July 2010), pp. 78-89.
Munoz J. J., Conte, V., and Miodownik M. A. Stress-dependent morphogenesis: continuum mechanics and truss systems. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2010, Volume 9, Number 4, 451-467.
Public Talks Coming Up...
Hay Festival, 2nd June
Cheltenham Science Festival, 6th June
Cheltenham Science Festival, 7th June
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Major Research Projects
EU Funded Materials Research Project
ESPRC Funded Healthcare Project
EPSRC Funded Materials Project
