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Prizes

James Burch and Alasdair Fikouras win Poster Competition

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Congratulations to James Burch and Alasdair Fikouras for taking 1st and 2nd Place respectively in the annual PhD assessment’s poster competition! James presented work on his flexible meta surface holograms, which are topologically sensitive and have applications in areas of security. Alasdair presented his work on Intracellular Photonic Nanodisks, as a way to place unique and trackable light sources within the cells themselves, providing improvements to current biological imaging methods.    

James Burch Wins Poster Prize at PECS XII

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Congratulations to James, who has won the runner up prize for the Poster competition at the 12th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS-XII), taking place at University of York in July 2016. His Poster on “Flexible Broadband Metasurface Holograms” was chosen by a panel of judges from a selection of nearly 40 participating entries.

Aline Heyerick wins Arthur Maitland Prize

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Congratulations to Aline for winning the Arthur Maitland prize for best talk in this year’s PhD assessments. Aline’s PhD thesis focuses on novel materials for advanced plasmonics applications.

Congratulations Eilidh – Undergraduate Awards 2015

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Congratulations to Eilidh Johnston, who has been declared the overall winner of the undergraduate awards 2015, in the category of Physics and Mathematics. Eilidh’s recently completed her MSc thesis in our group with a project on ‘DNA Assisted Fabrication of 3D Metamaterials’, in collaboration with the groups of Dr Carlos Penedo and Dr Euan Kay.

Andrea Di Falco shortlisted for Teaching Awards

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Andrea Di Falco has been shortlisted for the 2014-2015 Teaching Awards, organised by the Students’ Association to recognise and award excellent teaching. Andrea was selected to be shortlisted from a list of over 370 nominations, to be the one of the final four people in the category of Postgraduate Research Thesis Supervisor. Congratulations to Andrea and all the other nominees, shortlistees, and winners.

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