This year, we have a joint win for our Month 6 Presentation Prize: congratulations to first year PGRs Joe Pitfield (also the winner of the Month 13 Presentation Prize)and Leanne Stanfield. They will be collecting their mystery prize soon… The Month 6 presentations are given each May by first year PGRs, at the...
Congratulations to final year PGR Elizabeth Martin, who won the Best Poster Award at the 65th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM 2020) (2nd-6th November 2020). This is an international conference that includes all aspects of fundamental and applied magnetism, which for the first time was held virtually....
Last month, fourth year PGR Ioannis Leontis gave an oral presentation virtually at Graphene 2020. The event ran online from 19th-23rd October, including presentations, poster sessions and an industrial forum. Ioannis says of the experience: Last month, I contributed an oral presentation at the virtual conference Graphene 2020. The conference...
This year, we have a joint win for our Month 13 Presentation Prize: congratulations to second year PGRs Joe Pitfield and Will Borrows. The prize was a £50 voucher. The Month 13 presentations are given each October, where the PGRs give a presentation on their work to date and feedback...
We are delighted to announce that third year PGR Benjamin Pearce has won the Month 25 Presentation Prize- a £50 Amazon voucher. The Month 25 presentations are given each October, where the PGRs give a presentation on their work to date and feedback scores are given by their peers. Ben’s...
Congratulation to PGR Harry Penketh, who recently submitted his thesis titled ‘“Control of white light emission for illumination and imaging”. Harry discusses his project in more detail, and offers his advice for students at the start of their PhD journey: “I have submitted my thesis, although perhaps submitted to my...
Congratulations to David Osuna Ruiz, who has submitted the final version of his thesis, ‘Magnetisation dynamics and tuneable GHz properties of unsaturated magnetic nanostructures’ after corrections. David looks back on his experience of studying for a PhD as part of the CDT: Four years ago, I decided to move to...
Very many congratulations to the Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation’s Advisory Board Chair Prof Miles Padgett OBE! Miles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for “services to scientific research and outreach”. He holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural...
Congratulations to Prof Sir Roy Sambles, who has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to scientific research and outreach. Roy has worked in the University’s Department of Physics since 1972, becoming a senior lecturer there in 1985, a reader in 1988 and was made...
Congratulations to Julia De Pineda, who passed her viva this month. Her thesis was entitled ‘Multi-layer metasurfaces for manipulating the propagation of microwaves along surfaces and edges’. Julia published four papers during her time with the CDT. Below, Julia describes the challenges and rewards of undertaking a PhD and the...