During October 2019, some of our CDT students hosted a one-day student conference at the University of Exeter. This was co-organised with some PhD students from the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials (CPPM) from University of Bath- the “Exeter-Bath Knowledge Transfer”. The aim of this event was to bring...
Congratulations to Liam Trimby, who has passed his viva. He was supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Dr. Anna Baldycheva. Liam’s thesis was titled ‘Phase-Change Meta-Devices for Tuneable Bandpass Filtering in the Infrared’. The examiners were Prof. Martin Cryan from University of Bristol and the internal examiner was Dr....
We are delighted to announce that Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta has passed her viva. She was supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti. Carlota’s thesis was on “Optical phase-change metasurfaces: novel design concepts to practicable devices”. The examiners were Prof Anatoly Zayats from Kings College London, and the internal...
Congratulations to Thomas Collier, Henry Fernandez, Cameron Gallagher, Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, Ben Hogan, Kishan Menghrajani, and Cheng Shi, who graduated on Friday 13th December. We held a post-graduation celebration in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both...
On Friday, 29 December 2019, Dr Ben Masheder gave a hugely inspiring talk to the CDT in Metamaterials PhD students on his career progression since he left University with a PhD in Chemistry. He highlighted how not knowing what’s next and just being a nice person by sharing a picture...
Congratulations to third year PGR Emily Glover, who won Best Contributed Paper at Rank Prize Symposium on Parallels Between Acoustics and EM Radiation in Structured Materials at the end of October. Emily says of the experience: The symposium was an invite only event in the Lake District, to improve the...
On 4th October, Prof. Roy Sambles opened the new Institute of Physics(IOP) building in Kings Cross. Although it was first part-occupied in October 2018, it was on Friday October 4th 2019 that the four most recent past presidents, in chronological order – Professor Sir Peter Knight, Dame Frances Saunders, Professor Roy...
Congratulations to CDT PGR Joseph Beadle, who submitted his thesis last week. Joseph was supervised by Prof. J. R. Sambles and Prof. A.P. Hibbins, and his PhD project was entitled: ‘An exploration of acoustic metasurfaces’. The aim was to experimentally explore the effect that structuring surfaces had on the near-field...
This summer, three of our then-third year PGRs (Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, Ned Taylor and Elizabeth Martin) were awarded summer student bursaries, covering a small stipend and project fees to allow them to host an undergraduate student for 10 weeks to complete a summer research project. In a competitive process, the...
Fourth year PGR Julia de Pineda Gutierrez discusses the two conferences she recently attended and their successful outcomes: Last month, I attended two conferences, where I had the chance to present my latest research. Between the 16th and the 21st of September I took part in the 13th International congress...