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from the Solid Mechanics and Materials group

IBME Director, Prof Robin Cleveland, introducing the Bellhouse BioEngenuity Lecture Series

15 Dec 2025

IBME hosts second Bellhouse BioEngenuity Keynote Lecture

A crawling robot which is able to sense the end of the terrain, preventing it from falling off.

10 Nov 2025

Engineering researchers develop ‘brain-free’ robots that move in sync, powered entirely by air

Associate Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda and Professor Noa Zilberman

21 Oct 2025

'Outstanding' Oxford University researchers awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes

10 Oct 2025

Best Student Presentation for Konstantin Dzavaryan

Professors Kostas Kostas Margellos (for excellent lectures and lab demonstrating) Ekaterina Shamonina (for excellent lectures, tutorials, and pastoral support) and John Huber received Gold Teaching Awards 2025

15 Sep 2025

Department Teaching Awards 2025

An artistic impression of the experiment: 3D rendering of the micro-scale stainless steel grain investigated in this study showing the evolution of defects inside it with time (early – blue lines, later – red lines).

11 Sep 2025

First 3D real-time imaging of hydrogen’s effect on stainless steel defects opens the way to a safer hydrogen economy

Prof James Matthew And Dong Liu

13 Aug 2025

New £13m nuclear programme to boost UK energy security through sustainable graphite innovation

Jin Chong Tan

14 Jul 2025

Professor Jin-Chong Tan awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant

07 Jul 2025

Bright Sparks and Big Ideas: Jamie Awards 2025 celebrate innovation with purpose

25 Jun 2025

Oxford University to lead new collaboration advancing zero carbon aviation through hydrogen

20 May 2025

Oxford Engineering researchers lead IMAD2025 event with ZERO Institute ECR network

21 Mar 2025

My UNIQ+ experience: Miles McFarlane spent seven weeks embedded in the Mechanics of Materials lab

27 Feb 2025

New AI-powered tool could enhance traumatic brain injury investigations in forensics and law enforcement

10 Feb 2025

New study presents computational framework for optimising the thermo-electro-mechanical behaviour of 3D printed multi-functional materials

20 Dec 2024

RA Engineering Research Fellow receives “Ring of Honour” from the Association of German Engineers

16 Oct 2024

French students join the Department for successful placement scheme