Susan Skelton wins Carey Foster Prize

Congratulations to former Optical Tweezers PhD student Dr Susan Skelton who has won the Carey Foster Prize for 2013 for her thesis Applications of cylindrical vector beams to optical micromanipulation  The Carey Foster Prize is awarded annually for outstanding postgraduate research in Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics to a PhD student who has submitted their thesis in the past year.

Susan gained her PhD in February 2013, and is presently a postdoctoral research associate at the Laboratory for Scientific Instrumentation and Engineering (LaSIE) at the University of Osaka, Japan.

Departmental Teaching Prize

Phil has won the Department of Physics and Astronmy's Departmental Teaching Prize for 2011.  In 2010-11 Phil was lecturing the course Lasers & Modern Optics (PHAS3443) for third and fourth year undergraduates.  The prize-giving ceremony will be held on Friday 28 October.  Earlier this year Phil also won the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS) Faculty Teaching Award.

Faculty Teaching Award

Phil has won the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS) Faculty Teaching Award for 2011, shared with Prof Ted Johnson from the Department of Mathematics.  The MAPS Faculty comprises the departments of Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, Science & Technology Studies, Space & Climate Physics, Statistical Science and the London Centre for Nanotechnology, and the award is made annually in recognition of outstanding provision of teaching within the faculty.  This year Phil was lecturing the course PHAS3443 Lasers & Modern Optics.