Team Member
Dr Alexander Welbourne
PDRA
Alex worked in the group as a PDRA for Dr Tom Hayward as part of the EPSRC project “From Stochasticity to Functionality: Probabilistic Computation with Magnetic Nanowires”. They joined the FMM group at the end of 2019 and finished March 2025. They were previously a PhD student in Prof Russell Cowburns group at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Amalio Fernández-Pacheco looking at strain based control of synthetic antiferromagnets.
Alex's work in Sheffield was primarily on making use of stochastic behaviour in nanomagnetic materials for neuromorphic computing; they studied magnetic nanowires and superparamagnets using a variety of fabrication, characterisation and modelling techniques.
They have now moved out of academia for a software engineering role at Amodo Design.
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9089-9712 Website | https://www.welbourne.ai/ Email | alex@welbourne.ai
Related Projects
Related Publications
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Dynamically driven emergence in a nanomagnetic system
Author | R. W. Dawidek, T. J. Hayward, I. T. Vidamour, T. J. Broomhall, G. Venkat, M. Al Mamoori, A. Mullen, S. J. Kyle, P. W. Fry, N.‐J. Steinke, J. F. K. Cooper, F. Maccherozzi, S. S. Dhesi, L. Aballe, M. Foerster, J. Prat, E. Vasilaki, M. O. A. Ellis and D. A. A
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Voltage-controlled superparamagnetic ensembles for low-power reservoir computing
Author | A. Welbourne, A. L. R. Levy, M. O. A. Ellis, H. Chen, M. J. Thompson, E. Vasilaki, D. A. Allwood, and T. J. Hayward
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From stochasticity to functionality: harnessing magnetic domain walls for probabilistic and neuromorphic computing
Author | T. J. Hayward, I. T. Vidamour, M. O. A. Ellis, A. Welbourne, R. W. S. Dawidek, T. J. Broomhall, M. Chambard, M. Drouhin, A. M. Keogh, A. Mullen, S. J. Kyle, M. Al Mamoori, P. W. Fry, N.-J. Steinke, J. F. K. Cooper, F. Maccherozzi, S. Dhesi, L. Aballe, J. P