University of Oxford, Department of Materials

The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the Department of Metallurgy, by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

Around 250 people work in the Department of Materials full-time, including professors, lecturers, independent fellows, researchers and support staff. There are around 30 academic staff positions of which four are Chairs.

The Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy was set up in the late 1950s and remains one of the most important professorships in British materials science. Professor Sir Peter Hirsch formerly held the chair. The current holder of the chair is Peter Bruce FRS. Other Chairs in the Department include the Vesuvius Chair of Materials held by Patrick Grant FREng, Professor in the Physical Examination of Materials formerly held by David Cockayne FRS and the James Martin Chair in Energy Materials held by James Marrow.

Oxford Materials is a research intensive department, achieving 6* status in a research assessment exercise. World leading research is done in the broad fields of structural and nuclear materials, device materials, polymers and biomaterials, nanomaterials, processing and manufacturing, characterization, and computational materials modelling.

The Department offers undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Materials, Economics and Management, having around 100 undergraduates, and around 75 postgraduate students, particularly DPhil students pursuing advanced research.

In addition to its own buildings, the Department shares 7 buildings with the Department of Engineering Science on a triangular plot with Banbury Road to the west and Parks Road to the east. In addition, the Department has extensive, large-scale facilities at Begbroke Science Park, north of the city.

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