Congratulations to Jake Ayres who has won the 2022 Institute of Physics, Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize. This prize is awarded for the best thesis in the field of superconductivity in a given year. 

Jake’s Thesis, ‘Correlated Electron Systems Under Extreme Conditions’ was an experimental study of the magneto-transport of high temperature superconductors (iron based and cuprate) at very high magnetic fields and also hydrostatic pressure. These very challenging experiments contributed to 4 publications (2 in Nature, 1 Nature Physics, 1 Phys. Rev. Lett). 

The Thesis was supervised by Tony Carrington, Sven Friedemann and Nigel Hussey. Jake is currently an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow working in the Quantum Matter group in Bristol.