Judith Driscoll
Judith Louise MacManus-Driscoll is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the American Physical Society (APS). Education. She earned an undergraduate degree in materials science at Imperial College London, and a PhD in 1991 from the University of Cambridge. Research and career. She did training as a postdoctoral researcher from 1991 to 1995 at Stanford University and IBM Almaden Research Center. In 1995, she joined Imperial College London as a  lecturer in the Department of Materials, and was promoted to reader in 1999. She then did a sabbatical at Los Alamos National Laboratory and subsequently joined the University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in 2003. She was promoted to Professor in 2008. Driscoll has conducted research on oxide systems, focusing particularly on high temperature superconductivity, ferroics and multiferroics, ionics, and semiconductors. Driscoll is founding editor-in-chief of the American Institute of Physics's journal "APL Materials". She has two patents relating to high-temperature superconductivity with rights assigned to Cambridge Enterprise Limited. Judith Driscoll