Congratulations to James Barrington on the successful defence of his PhD thesis covering the development of optical fibre long period grating sensors.
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Oct 27
Engineering Photonics member awarded Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship
Engineering Photonics member Dr Thomas Kissinger has been awarded a prestigious fully-funded Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Thomas is one of 17 engineers across the UK selected and the fellowship will provide £491,000 funding over five years, starting in November 2018. In the project entitled “Doppler-Enhanced Lidar System Using Range-Resolved Interferometry”, Thomas will …
Oct 24
Rank Prize symposium: Grasmere 2018
In October, Jonathan Hallam and Ralph Tatam attended the Rank Prize symposium on fibre optic and photonic sensors for industrial and healthcare applications. The symposium was held at the Wordsworth Hotel in Grasmere, which is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park in Cumbria. Jonathan presented his work on fibre-optic optical coherence tomography for high …
Oct 05
Viva Success!
Congratulations to Vangelis Rigas on the successful defence of his PhD thesis covering the use of optical coherence tomography in microfluidic flow velocity measurement.
Sep 29
Optical Fibre Sensors: Lausanne 2018
In September, Antonio Rendon-Romero, Jonathan Hallam, and Steve James travelled to Switzerland to attend the 26th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors. Antonio presented a poster on his work on fibre Bragg grating immunosensors and Jonathan delivered a talk on the use of single-mode optical fibres in optical coherence tomography. A Fibre Optic Long Period …
Sep 15
FLAIR 2018: Assisi
In September, James Bremner, one of the department's PhD researchers attended the Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research (FLAIR) conference in Assisi, Italy. FLAIR is a conference that brings together researchers and industry to discuss new work in the field of molecular species detection. Talks included work on scales ranging from planetary environmental monitoring …
Sep 07
Young Researchers' Futures meeting: Edinburgh 2018
In September, Jonathan Hallam returned to Edinburgh to attend the Royal Academy of Engineering's Young Researchers' Futures meeting. Organised by the Academy’s panel for Biomedical Engineering, this biennial, multi-disciplinary event provides a forum for the best young engineers and scientists from throughout the UK. Jonathan presented his work on high-speed microfluidic particle velocimetry using optical …
Aug 31
International Mass Spectrometry: Florence 2018
In August, Célia Lourenço travelled to Florence to attend the 22nd International Mass Spectrometry Conference. Célia presented two posters covering both her PhD research on mass spectrometry as well as her recent work investigating the volatile constituent of composite materials at elevated temperatures. The conference was held at the historic "Fortezza da Basso", a masterpiece of Renaissance military …
Aug 20
Optics and Photonics, San Diego 2018
Ralph Tatam presented an invited paper at Interferometry XIX conference, part of SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting held in San Diego, California in August 2018. This is a large meeting with 65 conferences held alongside a technical exhibition. Invited Presentation Dual sensing-light-sheet OCT for microfluidic PTV J M Hallam, E Rigas, H D Ford, T …
Jul 21
CIRP ISME: Ischia 2018
In July, Tom Charrett visited Ischia in the Bay of Naples to attend the CIRP Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering conference. He presented work on the development of a positioning sensor that combines speckle correlation metrology with range-resolved interferometry. The main scope of the Conference was to provide an international forum for the exchange of the …
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