We have seven new students this year, who have just finished the first week of their projects! Having attended a busy virtual induction week, they were pleased to meet the rest of the CDT face-to-face in a socially-distanced outdoor treasure hunt across the city. Our new students are: 2020 XM² cohort Theme Project Supervisor 1 […]
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Julia De Pineda passes her viva!
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 experience of having a virtual […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo submits his thesis!
Congratulations to PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, who submitted his thesis this month and on 18th September, successfully passed his viva. Here’s Pablo’s words on the challenges and rewards of undertaking his PhD and his time with the CDT: My thesis is submitted just in time! It has been four years working on this incredible research […]
Charlie-Ray Mann awarded £5,000 prize from the Rank Prize Funds 2020
Congratulations to final year PhD student Charlie-Ray Mann who has been awarded a £5,000 prize from the Rank Prize Funds. The Trustees of the Rank Prize Funds decided to offer a number of awards, each worth £5,000, for final year PhD students in UK universities who have a major commitment to teaching and research […]
XM2 Minerva Prize Colloquium Winner Announcement
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s inaugural Minerva Prize Colloquium is Louisa Brotherson, a PhD student at University of Liverpool. She will be giving a talk on “Absolute acoustic sensor calibration for quantifying lab-generated earthquake sources”, delivered via Zoom on Friday 2nd October 2020. Congratulations Louisa! The Minerva Prize is […]
David Newman chairs session at UK Magnetics Society Student Conference
Second year PGR David Newman reently chaired a session at UK Magnetics Society Student Conference where he chaired a session and presented a talk entitled ‘Electrical detection of a DC spin current through an epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO layer’. The event was virtually hosted by the UK Magnetics Society to provide a platform for PhD student […]
Summer Student Projects 2020
This summer, two of our PGRs- second year Conor Price and third year Iago Rodriguez Diez– 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 PGRs had to put forward […]
Joaquín Faneca submits his thesis!
Congratulations to final year PGR Joaquín Faneca, who has just submitted his thesis: “Tunable Silicon integrated photonics based on functional materials”. Here is Joaquín’s experience of his time with the CDT: When I started the PhD coming from another country, everything was difficult, you do not have your own language, your family, your friends, your culture, etc. […]
New Publication: Coupling and confinement of current in thermoacoustic phased arrays
Congratulations to third year PGR David Tatnell, whose publication ‘Coupling and confinement of current in thermoacoustic phased arrays’ has just been published in Science Advances and featured on the University’s research news webpage. David, lead author of this study into thermoacoustic arrays, says: This work is the first experimental demonstration of thermoacoustic sources in acoustic […]
Applications Open: Minerva Prize PGR Colloquium
This Autumn, we will host the first student-led colloquium as part of our regular colloquia series. The idea for this first came from second year PGR Connor Sait, whilst networking at a conference. When he brought the idea back to the CDT, it evolved into giving a PhD student from outside of the CDT the […]