Congratulations to PGR Henry Fernandez, who has recently submitted his PhD thesis titled “Optical and Electronic Study of Hybrid Light-Matter States” supervised by Prof. Bill Barnes, and Prof. Saverio Russo. This thesis extends a description of his recently published work titled “Electrically Tuneable Exciton-Polaritons through Free Electron Doping in Monolayer WS2 Microcavities” and “Electrically tuneable […]
Category: Activities & achievements
Prof. Bill Barnes wins the Thomas Young Prize and Medal 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Bill Barnes who has been awarded the Thomas Young Prize and Medal 2019 from the Institute of Physics. The award is made for distinguished contributions to optics, including work related to physics outside the visible region. Bill was awarded this prize for his outstanding contributions to the development of nanophotonics, especially in plasmonics […]
CDT PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo is Poster Award Finalist at Nano Today Conference 2019
At the Nano Today Conference in Lisbon, third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo reached the final 17 in the Poster Awards (out of 350 posters)- the only UK student this year to do this. Overall, there were 1,100 entries to attend the conference so this is a real achievement for Pablo. Chaired by Nano Today […]
Pint of Science Festival 2019
Last month Pint of Science returned to Exeter. Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival that takes place every year and brings researchers to your local pub to present their scientific discoveries. This year it was in over 24 countries in nearly 400 cities. In the UK there were over 600 events in 41 […]
Joaquin Faneca awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE
Third year PGR Joaquin Faneca has been awarded a $3000 grant from SPIE. SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, this not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career […]
Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo passed his viva!
We are delighted to announce that PGR Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Prof. Geoff Nash , passed his viva with minor corrections. Santiago’s thesis was on “Reconfigurable Phase-Change Metasurface Absorbers for Optoelectronic Device Applications”. The examiners were Ann-Katrin Michel from ETH Zurich and Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti from University of Exeter. […]
Innovative creations at Exeter and Queensland HealthTech Hackathon
Third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo took part in The Exeter & Queensland HealthTech Hackathon on 29th-31st March 2019. A Hackathon (Hacking Marathon) is an event where a multidisciplinary team collaborate for an intense period of time on a specific project; the goal is to create something useable and tangible. This was three day event- […]
Congratulations to Prof J Knight: Fellow of the Royal Society
Congratulations to the XM2 Oversight Board Chair and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Bath, Professor Jonathan Knight, who has been elected to the Royal Society for his exceptional contribution to science. “Professor Knight, whose research focuses on photonics and optical physics, was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo attends the Organ-A-Chip Learning & Collaborative Event
On 8th and 9th April, third year PGR researcher Pablo Martinez Pancorbo attended the Organ-on-a-Chip Learning & Collaborative Event. The event provides a valuable opportunity for network members from academia, healthcare, industry, and governance to take part in a range of talks, industry demonstrations, training sessions and network workshops. Pablo attended as a member of […]
XM2 proudly presents: The first Materials for Clean Energy Conference at NPL
Our very first Materials for Clean Energy Conference (MCEC2019) took place from 8 – 10 April 2019 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The MCEC2019 organisers would like to thank all participants, our sponsors (the CDT in Advanced Characterisation of Materials, the Energy Harvesting Network, the Knowledge Transfer Network, Shimadzu, and Princeton Instruments), and in […]