2024 marks the year in which an important milestone in the Centre for Doctoral Training PIADS was achieved by several of our students. PIADS, having started in 2019, saw it’s first PhD students successfully completing their viva. Huge congratulations to:
Dr Ayse Ozcan Atar
PhD project: Inverted laser structures for photonic integration: epitaxy, simulation and design challenges
PhD supervision: Emanuele Pelucchi, Gediminas Juska
Dr Thomas O’Connor
PhD project: Boron containing alloys of III-Nitride semiconductors for Ultraviolet emission
PhD supervision: Peter Parbrook, Stefan Schulz
Dr Niall Boohan
PhD project: Modelling and Design of Feedback Insensitive Lasers
PhD supervision: Eoin O’Reilly, Brian Corbett
Dr Rhianne Curley
PhD project: Precision targeted tumor responsive fluorophores: theranostic probes for real time biomarker sensing and for intraoperative fluorescence guided surgery
PhD supervision: Tia Keyes
We wish you all great continued success!
Having now four alumni in our PhD training programme, PIADS is entering into 2025 with 21 active students hosted in IPIC. Their accomplishments are featured in our annual research report which will be published in early 2025. Stay tuned!
