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Quantum Electronics and Photonics Doctoral Research Prize

This prize recognises students who have carried out doctoral research of an exceptional standard in the field of quantum electronics and photonics in the areas of our current activities.


The prize is up to £500 and a certificate. At the discretion of the committee, up to two further “runners up” prizes may be awarded.

Students eligible for this prize should be:

  • members of the IOP
  • nominated by their supervisor or themselves
  • completing their PhD examination, to the stage of an examiners’ recommendation of at least a ‘pass with minor corrections’, between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022

Subject areas can include:

  • lasers and other sources of electromagnetic radiation
  • fibre optics and optical communication
  • optical materials
  • quantum optics
  • integrated photonics
  • nonlinear optics and light-matter interaction
  • optical sensing and spectroscopy
  • bio- and medical optics
  • nanophotonics

Supervisors can nominate students, or students can self-nominate by submitting:

  • the nomination form (Word DOC, 73KB)
  • an electronic copy of the thesis
  • a chosen feature image
  • a headshot of the student for our print and online media
  • a list of journal publications and conference papers with details of the invitation or poster

Submit nominations to Dr Edmund Harbord at the University of Bristol via email: [email protected].

Winners

The prize was not awarded during the pandemic.

2022

A headshot of physicist Christopher Fitch standing outside

Dr Chris Fitch

For his thesis Development of III-V Materials and Devices for Silicon Photonic Integration under the supervision of Professor Stephen Sweeney at the University of Surrey. Chris’s work addresses some of the key issues associated with the monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor laser materials on silicon. His thesis considers multiple approaches, each of which led to a high-quality journal output and presentations at key international conferences. His thesis is extremely well-constructed and provides a comprehensive presentation of his research and, in its wider context, already offers a valuable reference for other PhD students and researchers involved in this field.

2019

A headshot of smiling Dr Rachel Offer

Dr Rachel Offer

For Four-wave mixing in rubidium vapour with structured light and an external cavity, under the supervision of Dr Aidan Arnold and Professor Erling Riis at the University of Strathclyde.

2018

Dr Daniel Whiting

For Nonlinear Optics in a Thermal Rb Vapour at High Magnetic Fields, under supervision of Professor Ifan Hughes at the University of Durham.

2017 

Joint winners

Dr Dianmin Lin

For Flat Optics Based On Dielectric Gradient Metasurfaces. Stanford University, US.

Dr Jamie Francis-Jones

For Active Multiplexing of Spectrally Engineered Heralded Single Photons in an Integrated Fibre Architecture Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. University of Bath, UK.

2016

Joshua Silverstone

For Entangled Light in Silicon Waveguides Centre for Quantum Photonics. University of Bristol, UK.

2015    

Jun Yu (Bruce) Ou

For Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Group, University of Southampton, UK.

2014    

Tobias Herr

For Solitons and Dynamics of Frequency Comb Formation in Optical Microresonators K-Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

2013    

Sebastian Weustner

For Gain and Plasmon Dynamics in Active Nanoplasmonic Metamaterials. Condensed Matter Theory Group, Imperial College London, UK.

2012    

Paul Siddons

For Faraday Rotation of Pulsed and Continuous-wave Light in Atomic Vapour. Atomic and Molecular Physics Group, Durham University, UK.

2011    

Eric Plum

For Chirality and Metamaterials. Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Group, University of Southampton, UK.

2010  

Nikitas Papasimakis

For Trapped-modes, Slow Light and Collective Resonances in Metamaterials. Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Group, University of Southampton, UK.

Kosmas Tsakmakidis for Ultra-slow and Stopped Light in Metamaterials. Condensed Matter Theory Group, Imperial College London, UK.

2009    

Fernando Brandao

Imperial College London.

2008

Sarah Croke

Strathclyde University.

2007 

Matthias Ediger

Heriot-Watt University.

2006  

John Morton

Oxford University.

2005  

Jörg Evers

Universität Freiburg.

2004    

Hyunseok Jeong

Queen's University Belfast.

Seán Martin O'Flaherty

Trinity College Dublin.

2003    

Dimitris Angelakis

Imperial College London.