Postgraduate Awards

Several awards are available to support Ph.D. student research

CTAMOP member André Xuereb awarded prestigious Research fellowship

Dr André Xuereb was awarded a prestigious three-year fellowship from the Royal commission for the Exhibition of 1851, starting from November 2011, to work in collaboration with Dr Mauro Paternostro on "nonlinear optomechanics". The young field of optomechanics studies the interactions between light and the motion of small objects such as nano and microfabricated mechanical structures. This work is...
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CTAMOP Prof. Philip G. Burke, CBE, FRS, MRIA awarded the 2012 Will Allis Prize

Emeritus Professor Phil Burke, has been recently awarded the prestigious Will Allis prize from the American Physical Society "for pioneering and sustained theoretical development of R-Matrix computational methods for electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions important in modelling ionized gases and plasmas".

Prof. Burke obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics at Unive...
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