Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik
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Nationality	British
Fields	Materials Science
Institutions	Kings College, London
Alma mater	University of Oxford

Mark Miodownik is a British material scientist and engineer. He is the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and the co-founder of Materials Library, a website for people working in materials science. He is a broadcaster and writer on science and engineering issues. He has done work with the Tate Modern, the Hayward Gallery, and the Wellcome Collection, and often gives talks at the Cheltenham Science Festival. In 2010 he was placed 89th in a Times list of the 100 most influential people in science. Miodownik delivered the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Biography

Miodownik received a BA in metallurgy from St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford in 1992, and a D. Phil in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford in 1996. In 2001 he gave a series of talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on aesthetics in the arts and sciences.^[1] In 2003 he co-founded the Materials Library, a website for people working in materials science, with a grant from NESTA.^[2] In 2005 he organised two talks at Tate Modern on the influence of new materials on the arts.^[3] In 2006 he and two other scientists produced AfterImage, an installation that explores light and colour perception, which was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery.^[4] In 2007 the Materials Library made a podcast, "What can the matter be?", hosted by the Tate.^[5] He was one of the judges of the 2008 Art Fund Prize.^[3] He often gives talks at the Cheltenham Science Festival, of which he is a member of the advisory group. He was involved in three events of the 2010 event which took place from 9 to 13 June.^[6] In 2010 he placed 89 in a Times list of the 100 most influential people in science.^[7] He delivered the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The three-part series, Size Matters, will look at how size influences everything, including the shape of the universe, and is scheduled to air on BBC Four in late December.^[8]

References

1. ^ People. Materials Library. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
2. ^ Dr Mark Miodownik – Biography. King's College London. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Judging panel 2008". Art Fund Prize. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
4. ^ "AfterImage at the Hayward Gallery". mlythgoe.com. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
5. ^ What can the matter be?. Tate Modern. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010. "Credits". Tate Modern. Retrieved 26 October 2010. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
6. ^ "King's experts at Cheltenham Science Festival". King's College London. 9 June 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
7. ^ "" (subscription required). The Times.
8. ^ "Dr Mark Miodownik, takes on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures". Thomas Young Centre. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010. "Materials scientist to give RI Lecture". King's College London. Retrieved 26 October 2010.

Further reading

• Khamsi, Roxanne. "Materials library has the right stuff". Nature. 30 March 2005. Retrieved 26 October 2010. doi:10.1038/news050328-5
• Prophet, Jane. "Muse of the lab shapes edgy art (2)". Times Higher Education. 3 June 2005. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
• Dyckhoff, Tom. "It's the stuff of dreams". The Times. 16 November 2005. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
• MacLeod, Donald. "Building bridges". The Guardian. 27 June 2006. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
• Mark Miodownik writing in The Guardian. "Are you happy?". The Guardian. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
• Mark Miodownik writing in BBC News. "So who needs scientists?". BBC News. 4 April 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
• Brodland, G. W.; Conte, V.; Cranston, P. G.; Veldhuis, J.; Narasimhan, S.; Hutson, M. S.; Jacinto, A.; Ulrich, F. et al. (2010). "Video force microscopy reveals the mechanics of ventral furrow invagination in Drosophila". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (51): 22111–22116. doi:10.1073/pnas.1006591107. PMC 3009801. PMID 21127270. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=3009801.  edit
• Cohen, M.; Baum, B.; Miodownik, M. (2010). "The importance of structured noise in the generation of self-organizing tissue patterns through contact-mediated cell-cell signalling". Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8 (59): 787–798. doi:10.1098/rsif.2010.0488. PMID 21084342.  edit
• Cohen, M.; Georgiou, M.; Stevenson, N. L.; Miodownik, M.; Baum, B. (2010). "Dynamic Filopodia Transmit Intermittent Delta-Notch Signaling to Drive Pattern Refinement during Lateral Inhibition". Developmental Cell 19 (1): 78–89. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2010.06.006. PMID 20643352.  edit
• Muñoz, J. J.; Conte, V.; Miodownik, M. (2010). "Stress-dependent morphogenesis: Continuum mechanics and truss systems". Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 9 (4): 451–467. doi:10.1007/s10237-009-0187-9. PMID 20069442.  edit
• Conte, V.; Muñoz, J. J.; Baum, B.; Miodownik, M. (2009). "Robust mechanisms of ventral furrow invagination require the combination of cellular shape changes". Physical Biology 6 (1): 016010. doi:10.1088/1478-3975/6/1/016010. PMID 19342769.  edit
• Conte, V.; Munoz, J.; Miodownik, M. (2008). "A 3D finite element model of ventral furrow invagination in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 1 (2): 188–198. doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2007.10.002. PMID 19627783.  edit
• Basanta, D.; Miodownik, M.; Baum, B. (2008). Hunter, Peter. ed. "The Evolution of Robust Development and Homeostasis in Artificial Organisms". PLoS Computational Biology 4 (3): e1000030. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000030. PMC 2274883. PMID 18369424. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2274883.  edit
• Munoz, J.; Barrett, K.; Miodownik, M. (2007). "A deformation gradient decomposition method for the analysis of the mechanics of morphogenesis". Journal of Biomechanics 40 (6): 1372–1380. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.05.006. PMID 16814298.  edit
• Miodownik, M. (2005). "Facts not opinions?". Nature Materials 4 (7): 506–508. doi:10.1038/nmat1416. PMID 16003393.  edit

External links

• Personal website. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
• Webpage at King's College London. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
• Materials Library
• Profile at the Royal Institution. Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
• Profile at Intelligence². Archived by WebCitation on 26 October 2010.
• Miodownik's blog posts at the Cheltenham Science Festival
• Mark Miodownik on Twitter

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