Fourth year student Joaquin Faneca and second year student Ineta Grikalaite attended SPb Photonic, Optoelectronic, & Electronic Materials 2020 online conference and presented their work during the virtual poster sessions in the format of a 1 min elevator pitch. Joaquin presented his work on “On-chip sub-wavelength Bragg grating design based on novel low loss phase-change […]
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Liam Trimby passes his viva!
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. Mustafa Aziz. His achievements include winning […]
Emily Glover wins Best Contributed Paper at Rank Prize Symposium
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 links between the acoustic and […]
Connor Sait at ‘Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium’ summer school
Second year PGR Connor Sait talks about his experience at ‘Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium’ summer school: Between the 1st and 5th of September I took part in the ‘Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium‘ Summer school in Granada, Spain. The school was the fifth of its kind and was organised by Rosario González-Férez (University […]
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 […]
David Newman presents poster at York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium
On 12th-14th June, first year PGR David Newman attended the York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on “New Concept Spintronic Devices”. The symposium is a result of the JSPS Core-to-Core programme that pairs Japanese universities with world-leading universities. David presented a poster titled”Time-resolved X-ray detected ferromagnetic resonance measurements of a CoFe/NiO/Fe/NiFe multilayer structure”. This involved using X-ray techniques […]
Student and staff presentations at Light in Complex Materials International Workshop
The first “Light in Complex Materials” international workshop took place from 8 – 10 April 2019 at the University of Exeter. Organised jointly by researchers at the University of Exeter and the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena (Germany), this workshop attracted over 70 scientists and researchers from 3 continents, including many of the […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo wins first prize in ChemBio category of RSC Twitter Poster Competition
Third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo has won first prize in the ChemBio category of Royal Society of Chemistry‘s Twitter Poster Competition. Pablo’s poster was on Smart nanoparticle design for finding and killing early-stage single cancer cells. The #RSCPoster Twitter Conference is an online event held entirely over Twitter to bring members of the scientific […]