Group Leader

Professor Jason Robinson

Professional Career

October 2020 - Joint Head of the Department of Materials Science, Cambridge
October 2019 - Professor of Materials Physics
October 2016 - University Reader in Materials Physics
January 2015 - University Lecturer
October 2012 - Director of Studies in Materials Science, St John's College
October 2011 - College Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, St John’s College
October 2011 - Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
October 2008 - October 2011: Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College

General Contributions (External; past & present)

• Editor-in-Chief, JOSC, Springer Nature (2023 -) 
• Chair of Norway's QuSpin Advisory Board (2023 -)
• Governor of the Stephen Perse Foundation (2020 -2023)
• Member of Norway's QuSpin Advisory Board (2018 -)
• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2012 -)
• Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (2018 - )
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Topological Insulators, APL Materials (2015)

General Contributions (Cambridge University; past & present)

• Royce Technology Platform Lead (2022 - 2025)
• Vice-Chancellor's Deputy for the Schiff Foundation Fund (2020 -)
• Chair of the Department of Materials Science EDI Committee (2020 -)
• Maxwell Centre Steering Committee (2020 -)
• School of Physical Sciences Needs Committee (2020 -)
• Radiation Protection Officer in Materials Science (2019 -)
• Maths for NST Syllabus Committee (2018 - 2020)
• Secretary for the Materials Science Research Committee (2017 - 2020)
• Deputy Responsible Officer in charge of graduate complaints (2016 -)
• University Graduate Funding Competition Committee (2016 - 2021)
• Director of the MASt in Materials Science (2015 - 2021)
• Member of the School of Physical Sciences Graduate Education Committee 
• Director of Graduate Education in Materials Science (2013 -)

General Contributions (St John's College; past & present)

• Tutor for Computer Science (2022 - )
• Audit Committee (2018 - 2020)
• Tutor in St John's College for Archeology, Architecture, Asian Studies, Education, History of Art, Music (2017 - 2020)
• College Council (2016 - 2020)
• Junior Research Fellowship Competition Committee (2011 -)
• Natural Sciences Tripos Committee (2011 - )   
• Director of Studies in Materials Science (2011 - )

Conference Organisation

2023

• International Workshop on Superconductivity and Magnetism in Two Dimensional Films and Heterostructures
  Simon Bending, Jason Robinson, Sara Dale, Joe Wilcox
  Bath, UK (August/September)

2022

• OSS 2022
  Vietri sul Mare, Italy (November)
• IOP meeting CRIM: Superconducting Spintronics in Low Dimensions
  Virtual (September)

2021

• Oxide Superspin 2021 “OSS2021” Hybrid Workshop
  Kyoto, Japan (December) 

2020

• Topological superconductivity in Quantum Materials
  Johannes Gutenberg University, Meinz, Germany (October) 

2019

• Oxide Superspin Workshop OSS2019
  Seoul National University (SNU)
  Programme Committee Member, South Korea (June) 

• Nonequilibrium superconductivity and spintronics
  Royal Society Theo Murphy Scientific Meeting
  Kavli Royal Society Centre (March)

2018

• Superconducting Spintronic Mini Conference
  Lead Organiser, Cambridge (June)
• OSS International School
  Advisory Committee, Sapporo, Japan (August)
• Oxide Superconducting Spintronics Workshop (OSS18)
  Programme Committee, Amalfi, Italy (April) 
• Superconducting Spintronics and Majorana Physics
  British Council Meeting, Lead Organiser, Cambridge (March)

2017

• Oxide Superspin 2017 (OSS2017)
  EPSRC-JSPS Workshop, Co-organiser with Prof. Yoshi Maeno Kyoto (November)
• Exotic New States in Superconducting Devices: The Age of the Interface
  Lead organiser with Dr Sebastian Bergeret, Mainz, Germany (September)

2014

• Quantum Cambridge
  Winter School, Oxford, UK (March)
• Emergence of exotic new states at interfaces with superconductors
  Royal Society Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting
  Lead organiser, Kavli Royal Society Centre (March)

Research Grants

• 2023
  • Ever Resource Ltd Industry Grant 
  • Sabian Industry Grant
     
• 2022
  • Ever Resource Ltd Industry Grant 
  • Royce Technology Platform Grant
     
• 2021
  • Royce Equipment Grant for a Quantum Design VSM
    J Robinson, X Moya, N Mathur N Stelmashenko
  • Quantum Motion Industry Grant (4 years) to develop silicon quantum dots
  • Leverhulme Trust Grant 
  • Royce Equipment Grant for an Ion Gun
    J Robinson, X Moya, N Mathur N Stelmashenko

• 2018
  • Royal Society Enhancement Grant (3 years)
  • British Council UK-Israel Synergy Programme Grant (1 year)

• 2017
  • International network to explore novel superconductivity at advanced oxide superconductor/magnet interfaces and in nano devices (5 years), EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Grant 
  • Nanoscale coherent hybrid devices for superconducting quantum technologies (5 years), European Commission COST Action (CA16218) 
  • Time-resolved gate-based sensing for scalable silicon-based quantum computing (1 year), Winton Trust (Pump Prime) with Dr Alessandro Rossi (Cavendish, Cambridge)

• 2016
  • Superconducting Spintronics (3 years), Royal Society
  • Superspin (5 years), EPSRC Programme Grant

• 2014
  • A spectroscopic study of spin-polarised superconductor proximity effects (3 years), Leverhulme Trust International Network 
  • Revealing quantum magnetism at oxide interfaces (3 years), Leverhulme Trust collaboration with Prof. Atature (Cavendish) 
  • Probing oxide interfaces via diamond-based nano-MRI (1 year), Winton Trust (Pump Prime) with Prof. Atature (Cavendish, Cambridge) 
• 2012
  • Superconductor-Topological Insulator junctions (2 years), Royal Society
• 2011
  • All-Oxide Superconductor / Ferromagnet junctions (3 years), Leverhulme Trust collaboration with Prof. Mark Blamire (Materials, Cambridge)
  • Superconductor / Topological Insulator Junctions (2 years), Royal Society 
  • Superconducting Spintronics (5 years), Royal Society Research Fellow
     

Awards & Prizes

2011 Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
2011 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2010 Institute of Physics Brian Pippard Prize.
2008 Elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge
2004 Bessemer Medal (Imperial College)
2003 The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Scholarship for Master-level research at the MIT