Dr Mark Miodownik
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
Mark Miodownik is an engineer and materials scientist. He received his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University in 1996. He has a joint appointment in both the Engineering Division and Physics Department of King's College London where his main research area is self-healing materials, see his academic webpage for information about this work.
He 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 physics to tv, radio, festival, and school audiences and gave the 2010 Ri Christmas Lectures which were broadcast on BBC Four. Mark was recently included in the The Times list of the top 100 most influential people in science (coming in at no. 89).
His next public event:
Guardian Nanotechnology Debate - 31st Jan 2012
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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.
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